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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 […]
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    Martin Awarded NEH Fellowship for Book Project Supported by SAIL

    December 17, 2018
    The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded Cathie Jo Martin, Director of the Center for the Study of Europe at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Professor of Political Science at Boston University a $30,000 fellowship for her work on the influence of literature on British and Danish educational systems […]
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    RISCS Co-Director, Mayank Varia’s Article “A Roadmap for Exceptional Access Research” Featured in Lawfare Magazine

    December 5, 2018
    The debate of encryption systems that provide End-to-End (E2E) protection versus the viability of Exceptional Access (EA) encryption systems is highlighted in this article in Lawfare magazine on Wednesday, December 5, 2018, written by BU Hariri Institute for Computing Faculty Fellow and RISCS Co-Director Mayank Varia. The article focuses on the recurring “crypto war” between […]

  • “New Algorithms for Interpretable Machine Learning” Cynthia Rudin (Duke)

    December 4, 2018
    Cynthia Rudin, Duke University When: Monday, December 10, 2018 Networking reception, 10:30-11:00am; Seminar 11:00-12:00pm Where: Kilachand Center, 610 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA, Colloquium Room   Abstract: With the widespread use of machine learning, there have been serious societal consequences from using black box models for high-stakes decisions, including flawed models for medical imaging, and poor […]
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    “Building and Evaluating Conversational Agents”

    November 28, 2018
    João Sedoc, University of Pennsylvania Monday, December 3, 2018 11:00am – 12:00pm, refreshment & networking at 10:30am Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall Boston, MA 02215 Abstract: There has been a renewed focus on dialog systems, including non-task driven conversational agents (i.e. “chit-chat bots”). Dialog is a challenging problem since it spans multiple conversational turns. […]
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    BU Research Magazine Highlights a Hariri Institute Research Team’s Work in Machine Learning.

    November 13, 2018
    This past September 2018 a Data Science Faculty Fellow, Hariri Junior Faculty Fellow, and a past Hariri Fellow were highlighted in an article in BU Research magazine for their work developing a machine that can measure public sentiment about a given topic or event online. Where did this all start? It began with a talk […]
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    Red Hat Colloquium: “Software-Configured Compute Environments”, Ulrich Drepper (Red Hat)

    November 5, 2018
    Wednesday, November 14th, 2018, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM refreshments & networking at 11:30 AM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 Ulrich Drepper Engineer, Office of the CTO at Red Hat   Software-Configured Compute Environments Abstract: Hardware and software environments are designed as a compromise between many different requirements. This sacrifices performance, among other aspects, while […]