Computer, Data & Information Sciences

AI’s influence now dominates the modern career-matching experience. But as Greg Downey’s research shows, it’s been that way for a lot longer than we think. 

Awards honor faculty and staff who have demonstrated exemplary performance both in terms of their positive impact on students and through distinctive contributions to their department, unit, and/or the College of Letters & Science.

Ilias Diakonikolas Sheldon B. Lubar Professor of Computer Sciences, Randall Goldsmith, Professor of Chemistry and Claire Wendland, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Anthropology were awarded 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships.

Kristin Eschenfelder, academic associate dean and associate director for the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences, will begin the role in May.

College of Letters & Science professors Mimmi Fulmer, Miron Livny and Jon Pevehouse receive 2026 Hilldale Awards recognizing their contributions to teaching, research and service.

24 exceptional L&S graduate students have been selected as recipients of the 2025-26 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards, recognizing their strengths and commitment surrounding the craft of teaching.

A new cohort of L&S professors achieves a major career milestone.

Six things we’ve learned from the AI Terrarium.

Given AI’s dazzling complexity and light-speed evolution, AI exceptionalism is an understandable view. But it is also a misleading and counterproductive one.