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  • AI Research Initiative Launches Seminar Series

    January 29, 2018
    Led by <strong>Kate Saenko, Stan Sclaroff, Brian Kulis, and Margrit Betke</strong>, the initiative was featured during the Data Science Initiative's BUDS 2018 conference and has launched an exciting seminar series for the spring 2018 semester that will <strong>feature top AI experts from across the country.</strong>

  • AI-driven Research Reveals Youth-Targeting Strategies of Tobacco Companies

    September 14, 2024
    By Maureen Stanton A new study led by Boston University reveals that regulatory loopholes have allowed tobacco companies to target youth using social media.  Findings suggest that enforcement of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) health warnings on social media may reduce youth engagement with tobacco marketing. Amid declining cigarette sales and stricter regulations, tobacco companies […]

  • AI-powered Breakthrough in Plasma Science Delivers New Computational Efficiencies

    March 20, 2025
    Unlocks Potential for Space and Fusion Research By Maureen Stanton Plasma physics plays a critical role in a wide array of scientific and technological fields, from understanding the Sun and other stars to predicting space weather, advancing fusion energy, and exploring cosmic phenomena like black holes and neutron stars. However, accurately simulating plasma behavior is […]

  • 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

  • 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 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 […]

  • AIR Speaker Series talk by Serge Belongie on: “A New workflow for collaborative machine learning research in biodiversity”

    October 13, 2020
    On October 19th, 2020 Serge Belongie, Professor of Computer Science at Cornell, is presenting at the Distinguished Speaker Series hosted by Artificial Intelligence Research (AIR). Professor Belongie is presenting their research during their talk “A New workflow for collaborative machine learning research in biodiversity.” Professor Belongie is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, the […]

  • AIR Studies How Machines Learn and Think

    September 24, 2018
    Researchers from Boston University's Artificial Intelligence Research Initiative (AIR), housed at the Hariri Institute, attempt to understand how computers make decisions once they have been programmed to learn. Kate Saenko, an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at BU, takes a look into how computers programmed with artificial intelligence gather information and go about […]

  • AIR Weekly Seminar: Reasoning about Complex Media from Weak Multi-modal Supervision

    November 16, 2020
    The Hariri Institute of Computing has organized a “Reasoning about Complex Media from Weak Multi-modal Supervision” seminar on Monday, November 30th, 11:00am- 12:00pm as a part of its AIR Weekly Seminar series. The speaker for this event is Adriana Kovashka, Professor in Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh. The AIR seminar will address the […]

  • Alina Ene, Junior Faculty Fellow, Gives 4/11 Wed@Hariri/Meet Our Fellows Talk

    March 27, 2018
    The Hariri Institute for Computing continues its 2017-2018 “Meet Our Fellows” series, which will showcase Alina Ene, Junior Faculty Fellow & Assistant Professor, Computer Science (CAS).