{"id":14573,"date":"2024-10-20T07:24:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T11:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/?p=14573"},"modified":"2024-10-28T18:14:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T22:14:57","slug":"metrowest-how-did-they-build-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/2024\/10\/20\/metrowest-how-did-they-build-that\/","title":{"rendered":"MetroWest Daily News: “How Did They Build That” to explain Boston University’s Jenga building, how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Excerpt from MetroWest Daily News | By: Rin Velasco | October 20, 2024 | Photo: Janice Checchio<\/p>\n

If you drive in Boston, then you’ve seen Boston University’s Center for Computing & Data Sciences.<\/p>\n

But you probably know it better as the “Jenga building,” named for it’s incredibly unorthodox structure, with floors seemingly jutting out from its foundational center.<\/p>\n

One wonders, “How did they build that?” Well, the folks at the Smithsonian Channel also thought that and made an segment of their show, “How Did They Build That?” about BU’s data science center.<\/p>\n

“How Did They Build That” is a show hosted by Jay Ellis, an actor known for his role in the popular HBO show “Insecure,” about exploring the largest man-made structures in the world and asking and answering the question: “How did they build that?”<\/p>\n

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The “How Did They Build That?” Smithsonian Channel special has aired and continues to make waves. Read more about the episode and where to watch it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18839,"featured_media":14574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,35,233],"tags":[352,676],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14576,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573\/revisions\/14576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}