The future begins now for data science at ¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒ
Welcome to the future. With those words, ¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒ President Gregory Crawford set the stage — quite literally — for the dedication of the McVey Data Science building. President Crawford delivered his remarks from the facility’s Extended Reality (XR) Stage, one of the groundbreaking features.
The future begins now for data science at ¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒ
Members of the ¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒ community filled McVey Data Science on Thursday, March 14, with others watching virtually via livestream, to formally celebrate the grand opening of the 92,000-square-foot-facility, which is fostering collaboration, crossing disciplinary boundaries, and inspiring ¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒ students and faculty to innovate with its state-of-the-art technology.
“When I walk in this building, I just want to invent and discover and create,” President Crawford said as the XR Stage generated a combination of augmented, mixed, and virtual realities on two large screens for viewers in McVey’s first-floor atrium.