Andrew McCallum, director of the Center for Data Science in UMass Amherst's College of Information and Computer Sciences, was appointed Distinguished Professor following approval by the Board of Trustees at its June 20 meeting.
The title... more
College of Information and Computer Sciences researchers from the Laboratory for Internet-Scale Distributed Systems (LIDS), PhD student Kevin Spiteri and Professor Ramesh Sitaraman, received the Excellence in DASH Award at last week's Association... more
Emma Anderson and Erika Dawson-Head have been named the College of Information and Computer Sciences' first Directors of Diversity.
Anderson will be focused internally on building community and celebrating diverse identities and perspectives in... more
Distinguished Professor Bruce Croft is retiring this spring after spending his thirty-nine-year career on the computer science faculty at UMass Amherst, but he does not show any signs of slowing down. He is setting aside his faculty responsibilities... more
Kaleigh Clary, a Ph.D. student in the University of Massachusetts Amherst's College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS), has been named a 2018 Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellow.
Run by the University of Chicago, the summer-long... more
