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BU Today: Fashion Social Networking App Wins at Spring 2025 Spark! Demo Day
Read about some of the award winning projects at this year's Spring Spark! Demo Day! More
Demo Day Spring 2025 Features Innovative Solutions in Civic Tech, Legal AI, Urban Mobility, and More
On May 1, students from the Duan Family Spark! Initiative courses and programs gathered at the Spring 2025 Demo Day event to present the results of a semester of innovation, collaboration, and hands-on learning. Hosted on the first and second floors of the Duan Family Center for Computing & Data... More
Advisor of the Year: Molly-Kate MacLeod on Bridging Student Experience Across BU
Read about Molly-Kate MacLeod, her "Advisor of the Year" Award for time at SHA, and how she is enhancing the student experience at CDS. More
BU Today: For Academic Advisor Award Winners, Students Are at the Heart of It All
This year's university-wide advising award recognizes one of BU Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences' own: Molly-Kate MacLeod! More
Fall 2025 CDS Course Spotlight
CDS announces new fall 2025 courses. More
Professor Mayank Varia Wins Best Paper Award for Cryptographic Framework Tackling Legal Accountability
An award-winning study by BU's Mayank Varia explores how NDAs, central to #MeToo-era cases, balance privacy and accountability—and what new laws mean for the future of justice and transparency. More
Boston Business Journal: How Boston University’s data sciences school achieved gender parity
Read about the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences' effects on gender representation in data science and STEM higher education. More
BU Today: Afraid of Public Speaking? This Club Can Help
Read about the CDS Toastmasters Club, supporting students in building their capabilities with real-world connections. More
From Frogs to Frontiers: CDS Freshman Publishes Research on Machine Learning and Conservation
As a high schooler, Nemai Anand built a frog call classifier using machine learning—work that led to a published paper and a future at Boston University CDS. More
CDS Assistant Professor Joshua Peterson Merges AI and Behavioral Science
AI models like GPT-4o often assume humans are more rational than we are. CDS Assistant Professor Joshua Peterson's research reveals why this bias matters for machine intelligence. More