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  • “How Can NLP Help Cure Cancer?”

    March 1, 2018
    <strong>Regina Barzilay</strong>, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, describe a number of tasks where NLP-based models can make a difference in clinical practice and introduces new functionalities such as <strong>interpretable neural models that provide rationales underlying predictions</strong> and semi-supervised methods for information extraction.
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    BU Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar: Accountability, Ethics, and Algorithms

    March 1, 2018
    Thursday, March 15, 4:00 PM – 3:30 PM Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering 610 Commonwealth Avenue Ethics and law are implicated in efforts to make the design and implementation of algorithms accountable. Philosophical questions arise at the start: how do the notions of responsibility, jurisdiction, accountability, bias, abuse, and authority figure in a […]
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    Over 260 People Attend BUDS Day 2018

    February 21, 2018
    Over 260 people attended BU Data Science (BUDS) Day 2018, including 100 students and over 100 of the University's faculty and staff; all in all, BUDS Day attendees represented 40 different departments. The third annual edition of BUDS Day was the largest yet, and left participants excited and energized about new directions that data science can play in […]
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    Spring 2018 Call for Proposals & Nominations for Research Incubation Awards and Fellows Programs

    February 21, 2018
    The Hariri Institute for Computing is pleased to bring to the attention of BU faculty the Spring 2018 Call for the following three programs: Research Incubation Awards Program; Junior Faculty Fellows Program; Graduate Student Fellows Program for Continuing PhD Students. The deadline for proposals and nominations for all programs is Friday, April 13, 2018, 5pm.
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    Digital Health Initiative Hosts Special Research Award Event

    February 21, 2018
    *Due to the weather forecast, this event has been postponed from its original date of March 13, 2018; it will now take place on Thursday, March 22, 2018. Join the Hariri Institute for Computing and Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy for a discussion about the current Digital Health Initiative (DHI) research proposal call. The […]
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    J.J. Allaire to Give 3/28 Wed@Hariri Talk on ML

    February 16, 2018
    3:00 PM – 4:30 PM on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 Refreshments & networking at 2:45 PM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 This Wednesday@Hariri event is presented in collaboration with the AI Research Initiative (AIR) and the Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL). J.J. Allaire Founder, RStudio Machine Learning with TensorFlow and R Abstract: TensorFlow […]
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    Helen Jenkins, Institute Junior Faculty Fellow, to Give Wed@Hariri/Meet Our Fellows Talk

    February 16, 2018
    11:00 AM – 12:30 PM on Thursday, April 26, 2018 Refreshments & networking at 10:45 AM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 This event has been rescheduled from its original date of March 21, 2018 and will now take place on April 26, 2018. The Hariri Institute for Computing continues its 2017-2018 “Meet Our […]
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    Maxwell Palmer, Junior Faculty Fellow, Gives 3/14 Wed@Hariri/Meet Our Fellows Talk

    February 16, 2018
    The Hariri Institute for Computing continues its 2017-2018 “Meet Our Fellows” series, featuring Maxwell Palmer from the Department of Political Science.
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    BU Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar: Open Access and Research into History: Issues of Copyright

    February 10, 2018
    Tuesday February 20, 2018, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering 610 Commonwealth Avenue Casey Westerman, Archivist for the Institute for Advanced Study, will discuss some of the complex issues raised by the recent case of Kurt Gödel’s “Max Phil” notebooks. These fifteen notebooks, composed by Gödel in Gabelsberger shorthand […]
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    BU Cyber Alliance to host 3/12 Seminar, Featuring Alexandra Wood (Harvard)

    February 6, 2018
    The BU Cyber Alliance is pleased to host Alexandra Wood (Harvard) for a seminar, titled "Bridging Privacy Definitions: Differential Privacy and Privacy Concepts from Law and Policy."