Distinguished Professor Bruce Croft, the first dean of CICS and founder of the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, was awarded the highest member grade by the IEEE.

Professor James Allan, chair of the faculty at CICS, and Professor Brian Levine, director of the UMass Cybersecurity Institute, were awarded the highest grade of membership from the Association for Computing Machinery.

AuCoDe, founded by Shiri Dori-Hacohen '17PhD, has received a $750,000 Phase II grant from the NSF Small Business Innovation Research program to advance its research.