UMd. to break ground on six-story computer science center named for Oculus VR founder

University of Maryland, College Park will break ground Saturday on a new computer science building made possible by a $31 million donation from a student-turned-technology entrepreneur. The Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation, a 215,600-square-foot, six-floor building to be located at the corner of Baltimore Avenue and Campus Drive, is expected to open in 2018. The university announced the project and Iribe’s gift, the largest in the school’s history, in September 2014. Iribe,…

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