Boston IEEE/ACM Joint Seminar Series 2016/2017
Andre Oboler, Online Hate Prevention Institute, Australia
The Technical Challenge of Hate Speech, Incitement and Extremism in Social Media
Speaker(s): Andre Oboler
Date: Thursday, August 18, 2016
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: E51-325
Contact: Dorothy Curtis, dcurtis@csail.mit.edu
Tim Mattson, Intel
BigDAWG Polystore: programmer productivity for complex, heterogeneous big data applications
Speaker(s): Tim Mattson
Date: Thursday, September 22, 2016
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: Seminar Room G449 (Patil/Kiva)
Contact: Dorothy Curtis, 617-253-0541, dcurtis@csail.mit.edu
Michael Stonebraker, MIT/CSAIL
Database Decay and What To Do About It
Speaker(s): Michael Stonebraker
Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: The Broad Institute Auditorium
Contact: Dorothy Curtis, dcurtis@csail.mit.edu
George Church, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
The Future of Synthetic Biology
Speaker(s): George Church
Date: Thursday, November 17, 2016
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: The Broad Institute Auditorium
Contact: Dorothy Curtis, 617-253-0541, dcurtis@csail.mit.edu
Jared Spool,
Unintuitive and Insecure: Fixing the Failures of the Authentication User Experience
Speaker(s): Jared Spool
Date: Thursday, January 19, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: E51-345
Contact: Dorothy Curtis, dcurtis@csail.mit.edu
John Methot, Director of Health Informatics Architecture at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Next Generation Sequencing: Underlying Technology and Applications to Cancer
Speaker(s): John Methot
Date: Wednesday, March 08, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: Broad Institute Auditorium
Contact: Dorothy Curtis, dcurtis@csail.mit.edu
Hyman Hartman,
Evolution of the Translational Apparatus and implications for the origin of the Genetic Code
Speaker(s): Hyman Hartman
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: The Broad Institute Auditorium, 415 Main St, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Dorothy Curtis, dcurtis@csail.mit.edu
Jake Beal, BBN Technologies
Engineering Complex Behaviors in Biological Organisms
Speaker(s): Jake Beal
Date: Thursday, May 11, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: E51-325
Contact: Dorothy Curtis, dcurtis@csail.mit.edu
Raman Prasad, Harvard University Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Dataverse: Building a Digital Repository
Speaker(s): Raman Prasad
Date: Thursday, June 22, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: E51-335
Contact: Dorothy Curtis, 617-253-0541, dcurtis@csail.mit.edu
Butler Lampson, MIT, Microsoft
Personal Control of Digital Data
Speaker(s): Butler Lampson
Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: 32-123
Contact: Dorothy Curtis, dcurtis@csail.mit.edu