Winter Demo Day was a success! Around 70 supporters attended, 17 Spark! teams competed, and 31 mentors and partners made it happen. Various groups from Spark!’s eXperience Lab (X-Lab) Practicum course and students from the Spark! Innovation Fellowship showcased their projects during Demo Day and all teams participated for prizes during the pitch session of […]
Spark! and the BU Hariri Institute for Computing are excited to welcome Langdon White, a Platform Architect at Redhat Inc, as our new Engineer in Residence! Langdon has been an executive, architect, and developer for over 150+ projects. Students are welcome to pick Langdon’s brain on topics including but not limited to open-source software projects, data science, machine […]
IBM to buy Red Hat for $34B in cash and debt, taking a bigger leap into hybrid cloud Post originated from TechCrunch and can be found here Oct 28 3:15p Ingrid Lunden@ingridlunden After rumors flew around this weekend, IBM today confirmed that it would acquire open source, cloud software business Red Hat for $190 per share in cash, working out […]
By Azer Bestavros-Feature on The Washington Post-8.21.18 What’s the real value of a college education? For some people, that is calculated by the earning power that comes with a particular college degree. For others, it’s more about the satisfaction of a particular career, or about the social skills or intellectual rewards gained from the college experience. […]
This project includes creating a mobile app for the Mass Alliance on Teen Pregnancy to connect teen parents with the organization’s resources, policy alerts, and to further engage with the program. Project Lead: Mass Alliance on Teen Pregnancy is the only organization in Massachusetts dedicated to ensuring that state policies and local programs effectively address the […]
This project includes mapping Amman’s social media landscape and exploring how Amman’s citizens imagine their place in the country’s neoliberal investment project. Project Lead: Betty S. Anderson, Associate Professor History Department, College of Arts & Sciences Director of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations (2015-17) Detailed Project Description: I am currently undertaking […]
This project includes using helping ForkOut match restaurants to users based on their tastes using restaurant metadata. Project Lead: ForkOut is a mobile application that makes restaurant reccomendations based on users taste preferences. Detailed Project Description: ForkOut recommends restaurants to users of the app. Metadata about a restaurant is required to match a user’s taste […]
This project includes using machine learning to identifiy mining activities outside contractual boundaries using LANDSAT data. Project Lead: Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), helps people to realize the benefits of their countries’ endowments of oil, gas and minerals. We do this through technical advice, advocacy, applied research, policy analysis, and capacity development. We work with innovative agents […]
This project includes helping the ACLU better understand how policing in Boston works, and thereby help us make policing more just, equitable, and fair for all Bostonians. Project Lead: ACLU of Massachusetts, a private, nonpartisan organization with more than 20,000 supporters across the Commonwealth—is a state affiliate of the national ACLU. They defend the principles enshrined […]
This project includes making an mobile application to assist Black Girls Nutrition in helping black women break the cycle of dieting. Project Lead: Black Girls Nutrition is the first culturally customized artificial intelligence solution that helps millennial Women of Color break the cycle of dieting, lose weight and connect with other dieters. Their AI platform tailors our […]