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CIIR Alums Reunite in Palo Alto, CA
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CIIR alums gathered with CIIR Director James Allan on September 29, 2026 in Palo Alto, CA.
SIGIR 2026 Test of Time Award Honorable Mention
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At SIGIR 2026, Jeffrey Dalton, Laura Dietz, and James Allan received the Test of Time Award Honorable Mention for their 2014 paper.
CIIR Talk Series
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Researchers and practitioners speak about their work on IR and related disciplines during CIIR Talk Series presentations held biweekly on Fridays.
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October 7, 2026
On the CIIR’s 34th anniversary, Project Naget is being unveiled to bring the Center’s research to a new generation of real-world AI search technology.
Naget (naget.com) is a trusted information layer for agents that provides search… more
September 29, 2026
CIIR alums gathered with CIIR Director James Allan during "A Fireside Chat on the Future of Integrated Learning" on September 29, 2026 at Rubrik, Inc. in Palo Alto, CA. This event, hosted by the UMass Amherst Manning College of Information and… more
July 23, 2026
At the SIGIR 2026 conference in Australia in July, 2026, CIIR alums Jeffrey Dalton and Laura Dietz and CIIR Director James Allan received the Test of Time Award Honorable Mention for their paper, "Entity Query Feature Expansion using Knowledge… more
July 22, 2026
CIIR current researchers and alums gathered during SIGIR 2026 in Australia in July 2026. Congrats to Keping Bi for her Early Career Research Award - ACM SIGIR Excellence in Community Engagement; to Jeff Dalton, Laura Dietz, and James Allan… more
