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Keith Marzullo, computer scientist, educator, and policy leader with a passion for fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, has been selected as the next dean

For over a decade, leaders in the CIIR have been instrumental in shaping the direction and identity of the ICTIR, leading to its recent renaming and rebranding

Neena Thota has been announced as a recipient of the Spring 2025 ADVANCE Faculty Peer Mentoring Award.

Towsley, Distinguished Professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS), has been elected as a 2024 AAAS Fellow.

As chair, Allan will help guide strategic initiatives across academia, industry, and government.

Andrew G. Barto, has been awarded the 2024 ACM A.M Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning.

The show, based on Meï’s digital humanities project of the same name, is a queer, bilingual, feminist experiment in digital interdisciplinary scholarship.

UMass Amherst, the birthplace of reinforcement learning, hosted the first conference dedicated to the field in 2024.

The CCC has released The Future of Information Retrieval Research in the Age of Generative AI Workshop Report, co-authored by James Allan and Hamed Zamani.

Although HIV was used as a case study, the UMass Amherst researchers say their assessment tool has applications for other diseases