News & Events
August 21, 2018
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by computer science professor Rick Adrion have received a four-year, $1.998 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to carry out research that will help teachers,... more
August 17, 2018
UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences researchers Alexandra Meliou and Yuriy Brun have received a four-year, $1.05 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study how software systems can exhibit bias and how... more
August 08, 2018
College of Information and Computer Sciences Professor Erik Learned-Miller recently received a four-year grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to support fundamental research that he says will be "especially open to... more
July 23, 2018
CICS Distinguished Professor Emeritus Bruce Croft, together with Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) doctoral students Daniel Cohen and Hamed Zamani, were selected to receive a 2018 Bloomberg Data Science Research Grant Program Award...
July 13, 2018
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
June 22, 2018
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
June 22, 2018
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
May 23, 2018
On April 19, 2018, the College of Information and Computer Sciences teamed up with Valley Venture Mentors to introduce opportunity-seeking students to a range of innovative startups at their Startup Recruiting Night.
May 22, 2018
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
May 02, 2018
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