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Computers

Photos of Joie Liu (from left), Alvin Lu, and Gabriel Romualdo, wearing read shirts and smiling as they sit on the edge of a park bench. Trees are seen behind them.

computer science

Teaching Middle Schoolers How to Create the Next Minecraft

September 4, 2021

Photo of construction at the Data Science Center at 645-665 Commonwealth Avenue. You can see the skeleton of the building in steel beams, the concrete elevator shaft in the background, and a few construction workers on the ground.

University News

MassMutual Donates $1 Million to BU’s Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences

August 24, 2021

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Academics

BU Launches Data Science as an Undergraduate Major

June 29, 2021

Accolades

Popular CAS Master Lecturer David Sullivan a 2021 Metcalf Award Winner

May 11, 2021

Screenshot of Paul Cormier, Red Hat president and CEO, left, and BU President Robert A. Brown discussing the potential rewards of the extended partnership in a Zoom meeting. Both men smile and look towards the camera.

Computational Science

BU and Red Hat Extend, Expand Partnership for Cloud Research

April 27, 2021

A photo of the Museum of Science in Boston

Things-to-do

The Weekender: April 22 to 25

April 22, 2021

Andrew Sellars, director of the School of Law’s Technology Law Clinic, seen in a file photo meeting with students (from left) and Luke Sutherland (LAW’19), Courtney Merrill (LAW’19), and former senior program coordinator Jess Martinez.

Law

BU and MIT Renew Partnership on Technology Law

July 16, 2020

Graphic of Project Crane team members Ian Saucy (CAS’21) and Rachael Dier (COM’20), with a screen shot from their project. One screenshot reads "Tracking Racism around COVID-19 on Twitter," the other shows trends graphs and is titled "Frequency of Sinophobic Slurs on Twitter”

Innovation

BU Spark! Hacking COVID-19

July 6, 2020

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Awards

CAS Computer Scientist and SPH Epidemiologist Win University Teaching Awards

June 1, 2020

Screenshots of the RideFair app demoed at BU Spark!'s demo day. Three phone screenshots demonstrate how users can use the app to get from Warren Towers to Boston Public Library.

Computational Science

BU Spark! Innovation Fellows and X-Lab Practicum Programs Name Best Idea, Tech, and Design Winners

May 18, 2020

Screenshot of a recreation of Boston University’s campus in the popular video game Minecraft. Image shows BU's central campus. Terriers have used Minecraft to create a national, virtual college graduation.

Gaming & Graduation

Terriers Build a Global Commencement and BU’s Campus, All in Minecraft

May 5, 2020

Illustration of a woman working on a laptop at home in bird cage as pathogens of the COVID-19 virus float around. A cat sits on top of the bird cage.

Coronavirus

Coping with Being Cooped Up

March 20, 2020

Portrait of Elizabeth Slade (ENG’20), Cofounder and director of BU chapter of Hack4Impact, sitting with her computer open off to the side.

Student Life

Terriers in Charge: Elizabeth Slade (ENG’20)

March 11, 2020

Portrait of Azer Bestavros who looks through a chain link fence towards the site of BU's new Data Sciences building.

Computational Science

Game Changer: Azer Bestavros’ Journey from Egypt to Cambridge to BU’s Computing Mastermind

March 4, 2020

Portrait of Danielle Citron

Law

Q&A: LAW’s Danielle Citron Warns That Deepfake Videos Could Undermine the 2020 Election

September 11, 2019

Mariette DiChristina

Marketing & Communications

New College of Communication Dean Is Scientific American Editor-in-Chief

June 6, 2019

A portrait of Xin Zhang

Computers

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

October 24, 2018

An artistic portrait of the three BU alums who created scriptiation

Film

Scriptation Aims to Make Hollywood Paperless

October 4, 2018

Red Hat Presentation

Business & Law

Open-Source Summer in the Seaport

September 4, 2018

Student director Charles Gagnon

Film & TV

Ready Camera One

August 1, 2018

Ready Camera One