Calendar

Wednesday, December 2

• 9:45 AM BU Sec Seminar “High-Threshold AVSS with Optimal Communication Complexity”

  by Nicolas Alhaddad, PhD student, Boston University

• 3:30 PM Cyber Alliance Seminar: Is Tricking a Robot Hacking?

  By Ryan Calo, Professor of Law, University of Washington

Thursday, December 3

• 9:00 AM Sixth Annual Boston Women Workforce Council Effective Practices Conference

  To register and to learn more about this event, visit here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/6th-annual-effective-practices-conference-tickets-124571487673

• 11:00 AM “Atypical PhD journeys in computing and data science”

  Hosted by Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellow’s Quang-Thinh Ha and Shrabastee Banerjee

  Panelists:

  Michael Parks, Manager, Computational Mathematics, Computer Science Research Institute at

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Monday, December 7

• 11:00 AM AIR Weekly Seminar: "Biomedical Computer Vision"

  Speaker: Vijaya B. Kolachalama, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine

  Abstract: One of the most promising applications of AI is in medicine, which can impact every individual

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• 12:30 PM Adjusting Non-COVID-19 Clinical Trials in the era of the Pandemic: Statistical Design and Analysis

  The course of clinical trials research has been impacted to varying extents by the COVID-19 pandemic. BU statistics faculty will comment on various implications of the pandemic on non-COVID19 trials.

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Wednesday, December 9

• 9:45 AM BU Sec Seminar: “Cryptography from Information Loss”

  by Prashant Vasudevan, PhD student, UC Berkeley

Friday, December 11

• 5:00 PM BU Spark! Demo Day Fall 2020

  After countless days of hard work, BU Spark! fellows are all set to showcase their innovations to the world on Demo Day this Dec 11th. View fresh and original projects […]

Friday, January 22

• 12:00 PM "Did You Know You Could…?” Series: Conduct behavioral experiments online using Gorilla

  Speaker: Kimberly Dahl, Doctoral Student, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Stepp Lab for Sensorimotor Rehabilitation Engineering, Boston University

  Hosted by Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellow

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Wednesday, January 27

• 1:00 PM BU Sec Seminar: On the Power of an Honest Majority in Three-Party Computation Without Broadcast

  Speaker: Bar Alon, PhD student, Ariel University

• 3:30 PM Cyber Alliance Seminar: "Towards the Construction of Hybrid Legal-Technical Concepts"

  by Kobbi Nissim, Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Georgetown University

Wednesday, February 3

• 1:00 PM BU Sec Seminar: “Topology-Hiding Computation from Minimal Assumptions”

  Speaker: Pierre Meyer, PhD student, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon The BU Security Group does research in cryptography and network security within the Department of Computer Science at Boston University. […]

Monday, February 8

• 11:00 AM AIR Weekly Seminar: Activity Recognition from a First Person Perspective

  Speaker: Yin L, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin Madison The AIR seminar series features presentations by both BU and external guest speakers. Seminar topics include computer vision, natural language […]

Wednesday, February 10

• 1:00 PM BU Sec Seminar: “Correlation Intractability vs. One-wayness”

  Speaker: Tamer Mour, PhD student, Weizmann Institute

Friday, February 12

• 11:00 AM Decolonial AI: Confronting AI’s socially constructed role and its undermining of Human Rights and Human Dignity

  Part of the Hariri Institute for Computing's Inaugural Distinguished Speaker Series: AI and Inequalities - Creating Change Speaker: Sabelo Mhlambi, Technology & Human Rights Fellow, Harvard’s Carr Center for Human […]

• 2:00 PM BU Knowledge Transfer Series: Smart cities and sustainability

  The BU Knowledge Transfer Series, co-sponsored by the Institute for Sustainable Energy, will bring together faculty across BU actively working on a variety of aspects of data science and sustainability […]

• 2:30 PM Red Hat Wireframing Workshop

  Have an idea or a business that needs a web or mobile app? Don't know where to start? Join BU Spark! for a Wireframing Workshop featuring presentations from Red Hat […]

Wednesday, February 17

• 1:00 PM
  • Seminars
  BU Sec Seminar: How private is machine learning?

  Speaker: Nicholas Carlini, Research Scientist, Google Brain

Thursday, February 18

• 11:00 AM “Did You Know You Could…?: Series: Create a better planet using smart analytics?

  Speaker: Suchi Gopal, Professor, Earth & Environment Hosted by Graduate Student Fellow Luca Morreale Abstract: We have witnessed the impacts of climate change, a global pandemic and racial justice over […]

• 5:00 PM Coded Bias Film Screening

  The Hariri Institute for Computing, along with the Ignite Student Council, Spark!, IS&T, and the Department of Computer Science are hosting a screening of Coded Bias followed by a Q&A […]

Monday, February 22

• 11:00 AM The Hierarchy of Knowledge in Machine Learning and Related Fields and its Consequences

  Part of the Hariri Institute for Computing's Inaugural Distinguished Speaker Series: AI and Inequalities - Creating Change Speaker: Timnit Gebru, Former Research Scientist, Google Ethical AI Team & Co-founder of […]

Friday, February 26

• 11:00 AM From Ethics to Organizing: Getting Serious about AI

  Inaugural Distinguished Speaker Series: AI and Inequalities - Creating Change This talk examines the political economy driving the AI industry, AI’s recent history and capacity for social control, and how […]