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Campus Life

BU Launches Online AI Course For Undergrads; Additional AI Resources for Faculty, Staff

November 12, 2025

5/30/25 -- Boston, MassachusettsFormer Lieutenant Governor of MA, and president of The WAGE Project, Inc. Evelyn Murphy, from left, associate provost for CDS Azer Bestavros, Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development Lauren Jones, President and Chief Executive Officer of Associated Industries of Massachusetts Brooke Thomson, and CDS associate professor Neha Gondal at a meeting to share about BU's contribution to Massachusetts' new wage-equity legislation called Pay Equity Law May 30 at CDS.Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography

University News

BU Data Platform Will Help Massachusetts Track, and Work to Close, Wage Gaps

June 4, 2025

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BU SPARK!

Fashion Social Networking App Wins at Spring 2025 Spark! Demo Day

May 9, 2025

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Student Life

Data Days for Good Gets Students to Address Real-World Challenges

March 18, 2025

Science & Technology

Does China’s DeepSeek Represent a New—and Much Cheaper—Frontier in AI Technology?

January 30, 2025

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Science & Technology

BU to Help Massachusetts Expand Access to Artificial Intelligence Computing

December 19, 2024

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Science & Technology

Tired of Remembering All Those Passwords? Help May Be in Sight

November 19, 2024

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Science & Technology

Women Have Been Shut Out of Computer and Data Science. BU Is Opening the Door

November 15, 2024

Photo: Max Karambelas (ENG’24, CDS’24) (from left), George Trammell (CDS’24), Luis Mavarez (CAS’24), Andrea Rojas Doupovec (CFA’25, CAS’25), and Jimin Park (CAS’24) (not pictured) are the inventors of CloudWeaver. They all hold up their certificate showing they won.

Science & Technology

Cloud Computing Platform CloudWeaver Wins at Spring 2024 Spark! Demo Day

May 8, 2024

Photo: Becky Geisberg (CAS’26), center from left, Ella Hain (CAS’26), and Amelia Liston (CAS’26) chat for bit at SPARK on the second floor of the Center for Computing & Data Sciences. They sit on the computer in blue chairs and on their laptop.

BU SPARK

Learn More about BU Spark! BU’s Innovation and Experiential Learning Lab

April 12, 2024

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Data Sciences

Destination Data

August 11, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence

It’s Time to Push Pause on Artificial Intelligence, Says BU Philosopher

July 18, 2023

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Commencement 2023

Inaugural Class of BU Computing & Data Sciences Majors Prepare to Graduate

May 16, 2023

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Listen Now

Today I Learned: Honors Linear Algebra Can Be Fun, Cool, Even Beautiful

May 9, 2023

Professor Wesley Wildman, a tall white man in a blue collared shirt, teaches a Data and Ethics class at CDS on Tuesday, February 14, 2023. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi for Boston University

Artificial Intelligence

Why ChatGPT Is Both Exciting and Unsettling for Students, Faculty

February 17, 2023

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Campus & Facilities

Photo Gallery: BU’s Newest Building Is a Big Hit

January 24, 2023

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Academics

These Faculty Are Using Data Science to Help Change the World

December 6, 2022

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Center for Computing & Data Sciences

Q&A: What Will BU’s Data Science Classroom Experience, the Curriculum, Look Like?

December 6, 2022

11/3/21 -- Boston, Massachusetts Hard hat tour of the Center for Computing & Data Sciences construction site on Nov. 3, 2021. Photo by Conor Doherty for Boston University Photography

Campus & Facilities

Iconic or Ugly? Architects of BU’s Data Science Building Explain Their Design

December 6, 2022

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Data Sciences

Positioned to Lead in a 21st-Century Data-Driven World

December 5, 2022

Positioned to Lead in a 21st-Century Data-Driven World