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    Election Integrity

    March 26, 2019
    CYBER ALLIANCE SERIES Ron Rivest, MIT When: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 Event Start Time: 3:30 pm (including reception before) Event End Time: 5:00 pm (including reception after) Where: BU Law, Faculty Lounge Rm 1503 Abstract: In this Cyber Alliance talk, MIT Prof. Ron Rivest will review the problem of election security, focusing on the problem of […]

  • AIR Series: First-Person Perception by Anticipating the Unseen and Unheard

    March 22, 2019
    AIR SEMINAR SERIES Kristen Grauman, University of Texas at Austin This talk has been canceled and will be rescheduled to a later date. When: Monday, April 1, 2019 Event Start Time: 11:00 am (reception at 10:30am, talk at 11am) Event End Time: 12:00 pm Where: Kilachand Center, Colloquium Room 101 Abstract: Computer vision has seen major […]
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    PLACES: Measuring the Effects of Private Land Conservation with Large-Scale Ownership and Satellite Data

    March 18, 2019
    Wednesday@Hariri: Meet Our Fellows Series Christoph Nolte, BU Faculty When: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 Event Start Time: 3:00 pm (refreshments & networking at 2:45 PM) Event End Time: 4:30 pm Where: College of Arts and Sciences, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, Room 132 Abstract: The voluntary, permanent protection of private lands is a key instrument in […]

  • AIR Seminar Series: Oriol Vinyals Speaks to a Standing-Room-Only Audience at Kilachand

    March 13, 2019
    Earlier this week, Oriol Vinyals, Senior Staff Research Scientist from Google DeepMind, gave a talk on the StarCraft gaming program called AlphaStar to a packed room at the Kilachand Center. Vinyals holds a Ph.D. in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley and is a recipient of the 2016 MIT TR35 innovator award. His research […]

  • AIR Seminar Series: Yoram Singer, Princeton University and Google

    March 13, 2019
    AIR SEMINAR SERIES Yoram Singer, Princeton University and Google When: Monday, April 22, 2019 Event Start Time: 11:00 am (reception starts at 10:30am) Event End Time: 12:00 pm Where: Kilachand Center, Colloquium Room 101

  • AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II

    March 1, 2019
    AIR SEMINAR SERIES Oriol Vinyals, Google DeepMind   When: Monday, March 11, 2019 Event Start Time: 10:30 am (reception 30mins prior to event start) Event End Time: 12:00 pm Where: Kilachand Center, Colloquium Room 101 Abstract: Games have been used for decades as an important way to test and evaluate the performance of artificial intelligence systems. […]
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    Two Visiting Speakers to Give Talks on Protein Flexibility and Thrombin Allostery

    February 27, 2019
    Special CCS Lunch Seminar When: Thursday, February 28, 2019 Start Time: 12:30pm Where:  3 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA, PRB595 **Lunch will be provided** "Motion Tree, a Computational Tool to Describe Protein Flexibility" Professor Ryotaro KOIKE, Nagoya University In our bodies, a large number of proteins work to maintain various biological activities, e.g. transport of oxygen, degradation of […]
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    Deep Learning for Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis and Assessment

    February 21, 2019
    Wed@Hariri Meet Our Fellows Series Vijaya Kolachalama, Assistant Professor of Medicine, MED When: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 Event Start Time (including reception before): 2:45 pm Event End Time (including reception after): 4:30 pm Where: Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Seminar Room, Room 180 Abstract: An estimated 5.7 million Americans of all ages were living […]
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    Some Empirical Observations Linking Representation and Generalization

    January 28, 2019
    Samy Bengio, Google When: Monday, February 4, 2019 Networking reception, 10:30-11:00am; Seminar 11:00-12:00pm Where: Photonics Building: 8 St. Mary’s Street, 9th Floor, Colloquium Room Abstract: Deep learning has shown incredible successes in the past few years, but there is still a lot of work remaining in order to understand some of these successes. Why do […]

  • “Compatible Meshfree Discretization”

    January 18, 2019
    Nathanial Trask, Sandia National Laboratories When: Thursday, January 31st 2019 Networking Reception, 10:45am-11:00am: Seminar 11:00am - 12:00pm Where: BU Hariri Institute for Computing, 111 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA, Room 180 Abstract: Spatially compatible discretization broadly encapsulates discretizations of PDEs possessing mimetic properties of continuum operators, such as conservation, maximum principles, H(div)/H(curl) - conformity, or discrete preservation of an […]