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Computational Science

Photo of Lei Guo, from left, Prakash Ishwar, Derry Wijaya, and Margrit Betke in front of computer monitors.

Computer Science

What If You Could Manage Information Overload?

November 27, 2018

Composite image showing several open browswer windows displaying news websites such as New York Times, CNN, and The Guardian

Computer Science

A Better Way to Predict Election Outcomes

November 6, 2018

Saenko on a bench

Computer Science

Making Artificial Intelligence Intelligible

November 1, 2018

A portrait of Xin Zhang

Labs

ENG’s Xin Zhang Is BU’s 2018 Innovator of the Year, First Woman Chosen

October 24, 2018

digital rendering of BU's new data sciences center showing a view of the building from the Kilachand Center

Computational Science

BU Proposes to Build Data Sciences Center, Aiming to Become Leader in Booming Field

October 1, 2018

Architectural rendering showing the. collaboration terraces, built to encourage scientific interaction and collaboration, inside the new Boston University Data Sciences Center.

University News

A Big Building for Big Ideas

October 1, 2018

Red Hat Presentation

Science & Technology

Open-Source Summer in the Seaport

September 4, 2018

Stan Sclaroff

Computational Science

Stan Sclaroff Named Interim Dean of Arts & Sciences

August 28, 2018

SheHacks Boston

Technology

SheHacks Boston Student Organizers Are #makingthenewnormal

January 26, 2018

Brightly colored string&&loop socks

Alumni

Knitting Socks One Algorithm at a Time

December 4, 2017

Engineering

University Launches $20 Million Innovate@BU Initiative for Students

November 29, 2017

Tommy Leung and Nathan Perkins (MED’18)

Data Science

Count Love Project Reveals Protest Patterns

November 15, 2017

massachusetts map

Social Sciences

Mapping Mass Incarceration

November 6, 2017

Biology

Avrum Spira Leads “Stand Up to Cancer” Dream Team

November 1, 2017

moon blocking sun

Engineering

Solar Eclipse, Scientific Opportunity

August 17, 2017

Participants in the Storytelling with Data Workshops will learn methods for scraping from a web site and new data visualization techniques.

Research

Data Storytelling Is for Everyone

May 30, 2017

Team 8’s Richard Nesbit (from left), Fritz Jolivain, and Brett Moretzky demonstrating the Groove Gloves.

Engineering

Engineering to the Rescue

May 10, 2017

Biomedical Engineering Professor Edward Damiano in his lab with fellow researchers and their bionic pancreas

Funding

Science Coalition: Federal Funding Sparks Innovation

April 26, 2017

As principal investigators on a yearlong Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar grant, Juliet Floyd, a CAS professor of philosophy, and James E. Katz, a COM professor of emerging media, will bring together humanists, social scientists, computer scientists, and experts on big data to discuss humans, values, and society in transition.

Science & Technology

The Search for Truth in the Age of Social Media

April 24, 2017

From left, Jeffrey Drazen, Benjamin Petrie, Jackson Steinkamp, Haares Mirzan, Sang Myung Han, Nicholas Chiu, Jason Park, Rahul Aggarwalm, and Isaac Kohane

Health & Medicine

MED Students Place Second in NEJM Major International Data Challenge

April 10, 2017

MED Students Place Second in NEJM Major International Data Challenge