Opinion: The Case for Vigilance in AI Markets
In this opinion post, BU CDS affiliated faculty and Professor of Law Stacey Dogan makes the case for vigilance in AI markets.
CDS StuGov 2024-25: A Year of Growth, Mentorship, and Community
Read about Boston University Computing & Data Sciences’ Student Government 2024 goals and objectives in this POV.
Photo Essay: My Spring 2024 Semester at CDS
CDS Reflections: Isabella Boncser (SAR’26’28) has a passion for photography. That passion brought her to the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University where she worked as a student photographer. Check out her best and brightest.
CDS Spring Fling Reflections & Inspirations from Emma Steel
Read about the CDS Student Government’s first annual Spring Fling in April 2024.
Student Voices: Harnessing Data Science for Urban Policy-making
With the success of the recent Exploring Data & Cities panel event, read student moderator Vijay Fisch’s perspective on the panel’s impact and its important context.
University hiring must be centrally organized around interdisciplinarity
In this Times Higher Ed Op-Ed, BU President Emeritus, Robert A. Brown discusses why university hiring must be centrally organized around interdisciplinarity
Newsweek: What’s Missing From Our Current Conversation About AI and Medicine
Check out this Newsweek article written by CDS’ own Archana Venkataraman about the potential that AI has in the medicine worldwide and what unexpected considerations must also be brought into the conversation.
Empowering Tech Diversity: Reflections from the Grace Hopper Celebration
Check out this Student POV on the one of the most impactful technology events of the year.
Students’ POV: Generative AI in the Classroom
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, […]
POV: AI as Plastic: Useful, Cheap, Fragile
In this BU CDS Views & Voices POV, Kevin Gold, Associate Professor of the Practice, shares his thoughts on AI and its connection to plastics: useful, cheap and fragile.