PhD candidates Hector J. Garcia and Vahed Qazvinian have been selected to receive 2012 Rackham Centennial Spring/Summer Fellowship Awards from the Rackham Graduate School.  [More Info...]

Professor Michael Wellman has been chosen to receive the 2012 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award for his 1993 paper describing a market-oriented programming approach to distributed problem solving, which was published in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.   [More Info...]

U-M Computer and Communication Sciences PhD alumna Stephanie Forrest, Professor of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, has been selected to receive the ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award for 2011.  [More Info...]

Dr. David Chesney's project-based EECS 481 Software Engineering class has created a series of video games as autism therapies using the Microsoft Kinect platform. This blog post by Marc Sirkin, VP at Autism Speaks, provides a viewpoint from the nation's largest autism science and advocacy organization.  [More Info...]

Prof. J. Alex Halderman will teach a free course on Securing Digital Democracy this fall through Coursera, the online education company that was founded in 2011 by two faculty from Stanford University.  [More Info...]

Michigan students are participating in the mobile revolution, inventing and often commercializing innovative mobile applications. Take a look at this sample of apps invented here, from assistive technology to an app that reports the current status of your favorite U-M laundry machine!  [More Info...]