technology Archives — The Heights

Is The Fear of AI in Academia Justified?

The technology to accurately determine whether AI has been used simply doesn’t exist yet, but is it even necessary in most cases? More often than not, students aren’t using this technology in the way teachers fear.

Academics, News

Dean’s Colloquium Examines the Role of Artificial Intelligence at Universities

Getting ahead of artificial intelligence (AI) and understanding the value of education is important in preventing total domination by AI, according to John FitzGibbon.

Opinions, Column

The Independency of Dependency

We are living in “a system of cells interlinked within cells interlinked within cells interlinked within one stem.” So maybe I just rewatched Blade Runner 2049, but that does not mean it isn’t true.

Opinions, Column

Control Over Chaos: Why AI Needs to be Implemented Inside the Classroom

AI is part of a broader goal to expand the limits of the world we live in, not contract them. The AI question is centered around control of reality, because this new program isn’t leaving this world anytime soon.

Opinions, Op-Ed

Boston College Needs to Take Advantage of AI, Not Run Away From It

Just like the internet, computers, television, and telephones before it, AI has untapped potential to change our lives for the better—no matter how much we resist it at first.

Opinions, Column

VRoom VRoom: Oh Listen It’s the Sound of the Simulation Taking Over

Virtual reality makes me nauseous. But not like the nauseous I get after challenging my stomach to another night of BC dining—it’s more like the nauseous I get when I feel impending doom…

Opinions, Column

When Technology-Free Classrooms Inhibit Certain Students’ Learning

When I would read my high school math class syllabus, I read it differently than most of my classmates did. While my teachers would specify that homework would only take between 45 minutes to an hour to complete, I read it as between three and four hours—because that’s how long it would take me. Similarly,…

Business, Boston, Metro

A Pocketbook Recap of HUBweek 2018

HUBweek returned to City Hall Plaza from October 8-14 and curated a lineup of events relating to this year’s motto of “We the Future”. Shipping containers served as exhibitor spaces, while speaker stages were housed in igloo domes and glass-paneled modules surrounding the main nucleus.