An entire semester of time, dedication, and innovation resulted in Demo Day. A shift to an online platform did not stop BU Spark!’s community from attending Demo Day to support our students and their projects. The presence of 185 participants at Demo Day was a touching reminder that the Spark! community remains as strong and […]
The Resiliency Challenge is a nine-week, virtual hackathon, with three-week sprint challenges aimed at catalyzing student innovation in response to the unprecedented situation facing colleges and communities in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Our goal is to bring the talents of the university technology community together with subject matter experts to envision, design, develop, […]
You Can Track Umpire Performance with UmpScores Mobile App! Written by Adriana Diaz Baseball fans can rattle off player or team statistics as easy as listing their favorite pizza toppings. James E. Freeman Lecturer Chair, Mark Williams “found it odd that while there is a mountain of pitcher, batter and other player data, when it […]
June 27, 2019 | in Features By Siena Giljum Post graduation, every Terrier chooses a different career path. Some scatter across the country (and the world), some move back home, and some stay in the Boston area. And some, of course, don’t cut their ties to Boston University just yet. Ben Lawson graduated from the College of Arts & […]
05.13.2019By Rich Barlow. Photos by Cydney Scottshare it!+ *Find the original article here: http://bit.ly/2W00Tyi “Do you want somebody that’s an axe murderer to park in your driveway?” Judith S. Hurwitz’s question was strictly business. She and three other alumni with innovation expertise were listening to a pitch about a start-up, ParknGo. Looking for a Boston parking space can […]
NATHAN KLIMA FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE Mansi Gera (left) and Rhea Verma work in a seating section of the Agganis Arena during the TechTogether hackathon. By Max Reyes GLOBE CORRESPONDENT APRIL 03, 2019 The technology sector doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to the treatment of people who aren’t straight white men. Uber settled […]
BU Aims to Attract High School Girls to Computer Science by Hosting The Country’s Largest All-Female, Non-Binary Hackathon Boston University, a private, nonprofit, research university, is the host partner for TechTogether Boston as part of a three-year partnership agreement. Through this partnership, Boston University aims to increase the number of women enrolling in computer science […]
With a new year comes a new round of eXperience Lab students, and Spark! fellows. Check out the X-Lab gallery from Demo Day last month. Around 70 supporters attended, 17 Spark! teams competed, and 31 mentors and partners made it happen. Various groups from Spark!’s eXperience Lab (X-Lab) Practicum course and students from the Spark! […]
Winter Demo Day was a success! Around 70 supporters attended, 17 Spark! teams competed, and 31 mentors and partners made it happen. Various groups from Spark!’s eXperience Lab (X-Lab) Practicum course and students from the Spark! Innovation Fellowship showcased their projects during Demo Day and all teams participated for prizes during the pitch session of […]
Spark! and the BU Hariri Institute for Computing are excited to welcome Langdon White, a Platform Architect at Redhat Inc, as our new Engineer in Residence! Langdon has been an executive, architect, and developer for over 150+ projects. Students are welcome to pick Langdon’s brain on topics including but not limited to open-source software projects, data science, machine […]