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

CICS is ranked in the top ten of the nation’s public computer science graduate programs in the newly released U.S. News & World Report rankings.

UMass Amherst is hosting a series of interdisciplinary lectures on the rapidly advancing field of financial technology called Fintech for the Common Good.

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.

The student-organized event Voices of Data Science 2024 encourages critical thinking about responsible AI.

Ten CICS faculty and staff led a diverse range of activities during the SIGCSE TS 2024 conference held in Portland, Oregon, March 20–23, 2024.

An interdisciplinary team at UMass, under the leadership of Don Towsley, is helping to lead the charge on quantum computing.

A team of doctoral students, led by Andrew Lan, are contributing key research to an effort at the Learning Engineering Virtual Institute (LEVI).

Jaime Dávila received the 2024 College Outstanding Teaching Award (COTA), which recognizes excellence in teaching by honoring individual faculty members.