Listen to Season 1 of the BU Virtual Connects Podcast where we explore a diverse range of topics and perspectives that drive value, impact, innovation, and transformation in the world of higher education.
Inside BU Virtual takes you behind the scenes to explore the people, perspectives, and innovations shaping Boston University’s online programs—making them adaptable, inclusive, and high-impact. Through open Q&A conversations with faculty, staff, and students, the series spotlights award-winning instructors who blend academic excellence with inventive online teaching practices, shares learners’ experiences in virtual environments, and showcases how these programs equip students with the skills needed to thrive in an ever-changing workforce.
Before Vivian Muzyk became a graduate student in public health, she was a journalist. She earned a master's in journalism from the University of Georgia, started her career as a writer and editor at Southern Living, and spent years in nonprofit communications — including as director of communications at the American Heart Association in Birmingham. […]
Search for a master's in AI right now and you'll get three very different degrees in the same list: deep technical programs for engineers, data science degrees built around statistics and modeling, and a newer category aimed at the professionals making AI work inside organizations. They may look adjacent on a search results page, but […]
An AI software engineer is a specialized developer who designs, builds, and deploys applications powered by machine learning, artificial intelligence, and generative AI. The key difference between traditional software engineers and AI software engineers lies in how they build applications. While software engineers rely on explicit logic and predefined code structures, AI software engineers construct […]
MLOps, or machine learning operations, is a set of practices that functions as an assembly line for building, deploying, and running machine learning (ML) models at scale. By fostering collaboration between data scientists, software engineers, and IT teams, MLOps enables organizations to automate machine learning workflows and deploy ML models efficiently across production environments. The […]
Software development is undergoing one of the most significant shifts in its history. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool developers use—it is becoming embedded in how software is built, deployed, and even how it behaves in production. On April 24, Professor Ed Solovey (Electrical and Computer Engineering) and collaborator Osama Alshaykh will present […]
Boston University’s Online MS in Strategic Communication Communication leaders today sit at the intersection of strategy, technology, and trust. A single product launch now spans paid, earned, shared, and owned channels simultaneously. A crisis can escalate from a Slack screenshot to a board-level issue in hours. And AI is rewriting the economics of content, research, […]
Artificial intelligence arrived in classrooms before most schools had a plan for it. Students started using it first. Teachers started adapting next. Administrators are still writing the policies. In the span of two school years, AI in education went from a novelty to a daily reality. Now the question is how to engage with it […]
The loudest voices on AI strategy inside most companies are engineers. That makes sense, they built the systems after all. But walk into any room where AI initiatives are stalling, and the problems on the whiteboard are rarely technical. They're about which problems to solve, how to fund them, how to govern them, how to […]