Guest Speakers/Talks

Speaker Daniel Krol, Sandstorm Community Project Abstract In the modern era of data collection by governments and corporations, concerns have grown over user privacy and autonomy in personal and cloud computing. One outgrowth of this concern is the "self...

Speakers The Spatial Data Lab Team (see full list below) Abstract This seminar will introduce the KNIME Analytics Platform and its Geospatial Analytics extension developed by the Spatial Data Lab (SDL) team at Harvard's Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA...

Speaker Dr. Jan Kinne Abstract ISTARI webAI is an AI-based analysis tool that can be used to retrieve and analyze company websites. WebAI is primarily used to provide a searchable, real-time view of the activities and technologies of approximately 20...

Presenter Dr. Compton J. Tucker Abstract Dr. Compton Tucker will describe the marriage of commercial satellite data, machine learning with high performance computing, and field measurements, which together enabled the carbon content of ten billion semi...

Speaker Robert Spang, M.Sc. Abstract This presentation will provide an academic overview of a comprehensive study conducted on mobility among older adults in rural Germany, together with the Charité University Hospital Berlin. The emphasis will be on the...

Lunch will be provided for those attending in person. To attend remotely, please register at this Zoom link. Presentation by Dr. Qunshan Zhao Abstract Trees provide cooling benefits through shading and evapotranspiration; they are regarded as an important...

Register in advance to attend the meeting virtually via Zoom. Presentation by Dr. Ziqi Li, University of Glasgow Abstract AI has demonstrated remarkable performance and has become pervasive in people's daily lives, with recent examples such as ChatGPT. AI...

Title "Extending Japanese Old Maps Online: GIS based Japanese Gazetteer" Abstract In this presentation Dr. Yano will detail the utility, functionality, and process of developing the web application Japanese Old Maps Online (Figure 1). Currently, we are...

Speaker Esther Rolf, Harvard Data Science Initiative Abstract Combining satellite imagery with machine learning (SIML) has the potential to address global challenges by remotely estimating socioeconomic and environmental conditions in data-poor regions...

The Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University and the Department of History at Harvard University invite Harvard staff and students to a lecture on History and Human Flourishing Darrin M. McMahon (PhD, Yale) is the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor...