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Weems Receives IEEE Computer Society Education Award
Professor Charles Weems has received the 2021 Taylor L. Booth Education Award for outstanding contributions to computer science education over four decades, including numerous textbooks and significant curriculum development efforts.
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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.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded the University of Massachusetts Amherst Biologically Inspired Neural & Dynamical Systems (BINDS) Laboratory, the DARPA DITTO - Intelligent Auto-Generation and Composition of... Read more »
James Allan, chair of the faculty at CICS, and alum Jamie Callan '93PhD, now a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, have been selected to join the inaugural class of inductees into the ACM Special Interest Group on... Read more »
Professor Charles Weems has been selected by the IEEE Computer Society to receive the Taylor L. Booth Education Award for 2021. The awards committee cited Weems, co-author of 28 textbooks who has taught computer science at UMass Amherst for 41 years... Read more »
CICS has released results from its "Student Pulse Survey" administered through the Fall 2020 semester. The survey, created to help academic leaders at CICS understand how students feel about their overall experience and classroom experiences while... Read more »
Assistant Professor Narges Mahyar and Research Assistant Professor Ali Sarvghad have been selected to receive a 2020 ADVANCE seed grant for their project, “Mapping Instability: The Effects of the Pandemic on the Civic Life of a Small Town.”... Read more »