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Healey-Driscoll Administration Launches New Partnership with UMass Amherst to Recruit Students to Work with State Agencies on AI Projects for Social Good

The new, on-campus internship program will be guided by the Manning CICS Center for Data Science and the UMass Amherst Public Interest Technology initiative.
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Search Advisory Committee Appointed for New Dean of Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences
Chhaglani, Liu Selected for Spring 2024 Health Tech for the People Graduate Student Fellows
Cybersecurity Institute Hackathon Focuses on Tools to Fight Child Abuse Online
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Shiven Patel ’26 Named Fall 2024 Rising Researcher

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Siobhan Meï Curates New York Exhibition on Haitian History and Culture

The show, based on Meï’s digital humanities project of the same name, is a queer, bilingual, feminist experiment in digital interdisciplinary scholarship.
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UMass Amherst Hosts Inaugural Reinforcement Learning Conference

UMass Amherst, the birthplace of reinforcement learning, hosted the first conference dedicated to the field in 2024.
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Allan, Zamani Co-Author Report on the Future of Information Retrieval in the Age of Generative AI

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.
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