Andrew G. Barto, University of Massachusetts Amherst Manning College for Information and Computer Sciences professor emeritus, has been awarded the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of a branch of artificial intelligence known as reinforcement learning (RL).
The Healey-Driscoll administration has launched a new partnership with UMass Amherst to recruit a cohort of students to work full-time in collaboration with Massachusetts state agencies on experiential AI projects for social good.
The Massachusetts AI and Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease has announced its third round of grant funding totaling $2.3M
UMass Amherst has been awarded $12 million over five years by the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop the field of computational decarbonization
Monideepa Tarafdar, Charles J. Dockendorff Endowed Professor in Information Systems (IS), is a world authority on how artificial intelligence influences business operations, processes, and decision making. This area of study is important, she says, because of human primacy: how people retain control...
A computer science and biomedical engineering team has received an NIH grant to create predictive models for Alzheimer's disease using brain MRIs, among other data sources.
