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CDS Welcomes Four New Team Members

in Profiles

Read about our CDS’s new academic advisors and BU Spark’s new data science manager and postdoctoral fellow.

Tagged: Advising, center for computing & data sciences, CHASS, data science, Spark

Lisa Wobbes Joins CDS as a Clinical Assistant Professor

in CDS News

Read about Lisa Wobbes, clinical assistant professor with BU Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences

Tagged: data science, faculty, Lisa Wobbes

Students’ POV: Generative AI in the Classroom

in Views & Voices

By Natalia Clark (CAS’23) and George Trammell (CDS’24) The whiteboard was covered with notes as three separate panels adorned the titles: “ALLOW,” “RESTRICT,” and “BAN.” Hands flung up from every corner of the classroom, adding questions and concerns to combat each new idea as we searched for common ground. When classes resumed this past January, […]

Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, GAIA, POV, Wesley Wildman

Xuezhou Zhang joins BU as Assistant Professor in CDS

in CDS News, Profiles

Read about Xuezhou (Jack) Zhang, Assistant Professor with BU Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences

Tagged: faculty, Xuezhou (Jack) Zhang

Aldo Pacchiano Joins BU as Assistant Professor in CDS

in CDS News, Profiles

Read about Aldo Pacchiano, BU Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences Assistant Professor

Joshua Peterson Joins BU as Assistant Professor in CDS

in CDS News, Profiles

Read about Joshua Peterson, assistant professor with BU Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences

Tagged: faculty, Joshua Peterson

PITCASES: Navigating the Generative AI Education Policy Landscape

in Artificial Intelligence, CDS News, Generative AI/ChatGPT, In the News

Read about how Professor Wildman and Professor Crovella of CDS have been helping to set the standard for AI’s role in education.

Tagged: AI, ChatGPT, Generative AI, Mark Crovella, PIT-UN, Wesley Wildman

CNN: WAF Awards 2023: World’s best new buildings unveiled

in CDS News, In the News

CCDS has been announced as a finalist in this year’s World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards! Check out this CNN article on the awards!

Tagged: Boston University, center for computing & data sciences

NBC Boston: How Boston higher ed is responding to the advancing technology

in Artificial Intelligence, In the News

How are Boston schools and colleges preparing to use AI? Azer Bestavros, associate provost of BU Computing & Data Sciences weighs in.

Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, Azer Bestavros

Interior Design: Human Connection Informs This Boston University Design

in CDS News, In the News

What goes into a “Center” of community, education, and more? Interior Design magazine dives into the details of the CCDS in this article! Check it out!

Tagged: center for computing & data sciences

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