Important Dates and Events
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| Wednesday, October 7, 2026 | Last Day to Drop Standard Courses (without a “W” grade)
Last Day for Graduate Students to Change Standard Courses from Credit to Audit Status | | Monday, October 12, 2026 | Indigenous People’s Day Holiday, Classes Suspended | | Tuesday, October 13, 2026 | Substitute Monday Schedule of Classes |
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UPCOMING DEPARTMENT EVENTS
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Engineering & Applied Sciences Career Fair Fall 2026 |
Thursday, October 1, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM | GSU, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
The Engineering & Applied Sciences Career Fair is your gateway to connect, network, and gain valuable insight from employers. Connect with employers, gain exclusive insights, explore job and internship openings, and more!
To enter this fair students MUST be registered for the fair on Handshake, wear professional attire, and bring 5-10 copies of your resume.
Learn more here.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2026 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | CDS 1001
Join us for the inaugural CS & First Gen Reception, a celebration of First Generation students in our CS community. All students welcome to attend! Whether you're First Gen or just want to connect with friends, come a snack, and hear from people in your field.
Interested in speaking? Contact csmedia@bu.edu.
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FEATURED EVENTS AROUND CAMPUS
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BU Quantum Seminar: "From Quantum Curiosity to Quantum Utility: Roadmap to Real-World Impact" |
Today, September 25, 2026 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM | CDS 701 or attend via Zoom
How does a technology evolve from scientific curiosity to practical utility? This session explores IBM's vision for quantum computing, recent advances in quantum hardware and error correction, and the path toward large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum systems. Attendees will gain a practical understanding of the current state of the technology, the challenges that remain, and how quantum computing may transform scientific discovery and industry in the years ahead.
Today's speaker, Chris Wildgoose is an IBM Quantum Ambassador and technologist with more than 20 years of experience in artificial intelligence, data, and emerging technologies. His career has included leadership roles at IBM, Hewlett Packard, and Deloitte, as well as founding and growing AI and analytics startups.
View more upcoming talks by BU Quantum.
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"From Heatmaps to Structural and Counterfactual Explanations" — AIR Seminar with Fuxin Li, Professor, Oregon State University |
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | CDS 1101
This talk will focus on our endeavors in the past few years on explaining deep networks on images, where we believe we have shed significant light into how they make decisions. Realizing that an important missing piece for explaining neural networks is a reliable heatmap visualization tool, we developed I-GOS and iGOS++ which optimize with integrated gradients to avoid local optima in heatmap generations and improve performance in high-resolution heatmaps. Especially, iGOS++ was able to discover that deep classifiers trained on COVID-19 X-ray images wrongly focus on the characters printed on the image and could produce erroneous solutions. This shows the utility of explanation in "debugging" deep classifiers which have also recently been extended into explaining when and how do the image part matter in multimodal vision-language models.
Learn more here.
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Panel: AI Product Development |
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | CDS Spark! Space (2nd floor)
Curious what it actually takes to build AI products in industry? Join us for a panel featuring Brooke Mullen (AWS), Sam Hagman (Onboarded), Sameer Chaturvedi (Amazon Prime Video), Christopher Ackerman (CerberusAI), and Rishab Nayak (Videa) as they share firsthand insight into how AI is reshaping product development and what that means for the roles CS/DS students are entering. From technical challenges to career paths, this is your chance to hear directly from practitioners working at the intersection of AI and industry.
Register here.
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Attend an Event at BU Spark! |
BU Spark! is an innovation and experiential learning lab for computing, data science, and engineering projects housed at the Boston University Faculty for Computing & Data Sciences.
Learn more and find an upcoming event here.
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Apply to Attend a Premier Global Technology Conference |
Held in Anaheim, California on October 27-30, 2026, the Grace Hopper Conference is the largest gathering of its kind designed to help you build real skills, create meaningful connections, and unlock new opportunities in an AI-driven world.
The conference is designed to support and elevate women and non-binary technologists. Applications are only open to juniors and senior undergraduate students and upperclassmen Master's students from the Department of Computer Science. Learn more about the conference here:
https://ghc.anitab.org/
Learn more and apply to be selected to attend the conference.
The applications deadline has been extended to Friday, October 2nd.
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Connecting Sophomores with Industry Professionals |
The CAS Experiential Learning Connector, with support from the Department of Computer Science, is piloting a new, fully online, professional development program to support Computer Science undergraduate sophomores seeking interships.
In order to apply, you must:
- Be a sophomore student with a declared major in Computer Science in good academic standing
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Be available to participate in three fully online mandatory sessions with your camera on.
- Thursday, October 5th at 7:00pm – 8:30pm
- Thursday, October 12th from 7:00pm – 8:30pm
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Thursday, October 19th from 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Learn more and apply here.
If you are interested, please apply as soon as possible.
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Are you interested in connecting with graduate students and learning more about navigating STEM? |
Applications for mentees are now open for the Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (GWISE) Mentoring Circles program!
What You’ll Get:
- A space to ask questions about grad school, research, careers, and STEM life
- Monthly small-group meetings with 2–4 other undergrads and a graduate mentor
- Tips, advice, and encouragement as you explore your next steps
Why Join:
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Whether you’re thinking about grad school, exploring research opportunities, or just looking for role models in STEM, Mentoring Circles are a great way to learn and grow.
How to Apply:
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INTERESTED IN INTELLIGENT AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS?
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Participate in Boston's First Anti-drone Swarm Defense Hackathon |
Action Space is a hands-on physical AI hackathon taking place in Boston on October 24–25, bringing together a small group of robotics and AI builders to tackle multi-agent autonomy and Counter-Drone Swarm Systems. There will be more than $1,000 in prizes!
Over the weekend in October, participants will:
- Train autonomous policies in NVIDIA Isaac Lab
- Work with reinforcement learning and multi-agent autonomy
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Deploy their policies onto physical quadrotors
Action Space is looking for students interested in robotics, ML, RL, computer vision, autonomy, or related fields. The event is free and open to everyone.
Learn more about Action Space and apply to participate.
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Join xFoundry and NASA's Nationwide Competition |
Open to all students, teams of two to five pick one of four focus areas and spend the semester finding and validating a problem worth solving in it:
- Predictive User Interfaces: smart interfaces that know what you need before you do
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Human Performance Monitoring: health and safety tools that tell us when we are at risk
- Autonomous Asset Inspection: AI that warns before failure in infrastructure, systems and parts
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Adaptive Learning: systems that learn, adapt and reconfigure in high-stress environments
Teams research and analyze the problem rather than build a product, then pitch what they find to industry leaders. Each team has to span at least two disciplines, drawn from technology, entrepreneurship, arts and athletics, marketing, and science, so this is not a competition only for engineers.
There is no cost to enter. Fall registration runs through November 27, submissions are due December 19, and finals are at the NEXPLORE Summit in April 2027.
Register at connexions.xfoundry.org. Full details at xfoundry.org/horizons-challenge.
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CS UNDERGRADUATE ADVISING
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Drop-in Advising and Appointments |
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Resume Reviews, Fall 2026 Career Events, and More! |
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Boston University College of Arts & Sciences
Boston University Department of Computer Science
665 Commonwealth Avenue, 6th floor, Boston, MA 02215
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