Innovation Has a New Home
After three years of planning and anticipation, the Computer Science Laboratories opened its doors at 130 Governors Drive—a 90,000-square-foot facility designed to inspire collaboration, community, and innovation.
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Positive Reinforcement
Professor Emeritus Andrew G. Barto and alumnus Richard Sutton ’80MS, ’84PhD are featured in the Fall 2025 UMass magazine for their pioneering reinforcement learning research, which earned them the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award.
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Nabanita De ’17MS Honored for Innovation and Public Impact
Entrepreneur and global advocate Nabanita De ’17MS is the 2025 UMass Alumni Honors Outstanding Young Alumni Award recipient. De is reshaping the future of privacy and AI while leading humanitarian initiatives around the world.
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Doctoral Candidates Receive 2025 Google PhD Fellowships
Doctoral candidates Alireza Salemi and Cuong Than have earned 2025 Google PhD Fellowships, recognizing their innovative research in natural-language–based collaboration in AI systems and in efficient, resilient network design.
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Positive Reinforcement
In the late 1970s – the pre-dawn of the internet – researchers in the LGRC low-rise were creating the building blocks that would someday lead us to ChatGPT.
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CICS Doctoral Candidates Alireza Salemi and Cuong Than Named 2025 Google PhD Fellows
Nabanita De ’17MS Receives Outstanding Young Alumni Award
2025 NobleReach Scholar Virginia Partridge Applies AI to Real-World Community Impacts
SPIN Research Group Earns Recognition for Work on Internet Freedom
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Daniella Michel pairs her technical expertise with her Haitian heritage to amplify underrepresented histories through technology.
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