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What Computer Modeling Can Tell Us about Religion

STH researchers introduce high tech to a low-tech discipline BU Today / June 1, 2017 “I don’t even like computers,” Connor Wood confesses. So why is this postdoctoral fellow in religion studies so enthusiastic about the computer simulation displayed on his laptop, resembling the result of an explosion at a spaghetti factory and an… Continue reading What Computer Modeling Can Tell Us about Religion

Byte by byte: Using data science to study human behavior

BU Hariri Institute for Computing / May 4, 2022 A popular thought experiment pushes people to consider the ethics of redirecting a trolley to hit a single person that is at the wrong place at the wrong time in order to avoid hitting five workers that the trolley is barreling toward. This puzzle has been… Continue reading Byte by byte: Using data science to study human behavior