In BU’s Online Master’s Program, Students Learn How Data Science Makes AI Happen
In this Q&A, Azer Bestavros, Boston University associate provost, discusses the Online Master’s in Data Science program, its curriculum, career-enhancing benefits, and more.
Futurity: AI Can Diagnose 10 Types of Dementia
Learn about the recent developments being made on dementia diagnosis at the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences with Professor Vijaya Kolachalama’s research on a clinically scalable AI tool.
Is AI Biased against Some Groups and Spreading Misinformation and Extreme Views?
BU CDS Chair of Academic Affairs and Computer Science Professor Mark Crovella will use first-of-its-kind federal AI pilot program to scrutinize artificial intelligence for “socially undesirable behavior”. Read more.
CDS Student Voices & Inspirations: One Word’24
Hear from the students of the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences as they share what CDS means to them and how they would sum up CDS in just one word.
Azer Bestavros Named Kleh Foundation Distinguished Lecturer
Watch Azer Bestavros speak on the demystification of Generative AI and its potential impact at a wide scale in his Kleh Foundation Distinguished Lecture.
Interim University Provost and Chief Academic Officer Kenneth R. Lutchen Announces Boston University AI Task Force
BU Forms AI Task Force
BU Forms AI Task Force: Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences Chairs Wesley Wildman and Mark Crovella tapped
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, […]
NBC Boston: How Boston higher ed is responding to the advancing technology
How are Boston schools and colleges preparing to use AI? Azer Bestavros, associate provost of BU Computing & Data Sciences weighs in.
Inside Higher Ed: GPT-4 Is Here. But Most Faculty Lack AI Policies.
Check out this article from Inside Higher Ed that discusses the latest developments of generative AI and its impact on higher education, with a highlight on CDS-developed policies for AI in the classroom.