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A team of scientists led by research assistant professor Przemyslaw Grabowicz shows that Twitter’s poll system deliberately reports biased public vote counts.

A collaborative effort led by Charles Weems and Neena Thota has secured a $500,000 NSF grant to update first-year computer science curricula.

New research from UMass Amherst shows that programming robots to create their own teams and wait for their teammates results in faster task completion.

UMass has joined the newly announced NSF's SafeInsights, a five-year, $90 million research and development infrastructure for inclusive education research.

Anna Green, Brendan O’Connor, and Don Towsley will serve as team leads on three of the ten proposals supported by 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Grants.

UMass Amherst has been awarded $12 million over five years by the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop the field of computational decarbonization

A study identifying how to develop robot guide dogs with insights from guide dog users and trainers won a Best Paper Award at CHI 2024.

DISCount, created at UMass Amherst, derived from two very different needs: Counts of damaged buildings in crisis zones and bird flock sizes.

Schlomo Zilberstein is one of five co-principal investigators for a $5 million, multi-institutional NSF grant to improve AI-based decision making.

IBM has named Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences PhD candidates Ankita Gupta and Lijun Zhang as awardees of the 2023 IMB PhD Fellowship.