CICS researchers have developed a portable device, FluSense, that monitors coughing sounds and crowd size, helping to monitor waiting rooms for flu-like illnesses like COVID-19.
Emma Anderson, director of inclusive education and teaching support, and Erika Dawson Head, director of diversity and inclusive community development in the UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS), were recently announced... Read more »
A team of researchers led by CICS doctoral student Amee Trivedi received the 2020 Best Paper Award at the International Green and Sustainable Computing Science Conference for the paper, “Phone-based Ambient Temperature Sensing Using Opportunistic... Read more »
Professors James Allan and Brian Levine of the UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) have been named Fellows by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing... Read more »
UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences Professor and Chair of the Faculty James Allan and Postdoctoral Fellow Razieh Negin Rahimi have been selected to receive a 2020 Manning/IALS Innovation Award to develop and explore the... Read more »