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Working in the Small Artifacts (SMART) Lab, Assistant Professor of computer science Huaishu Peng (left) and doctoral students Zining Zhang (center) and Jiasheng Li discuss technology that can assist sight-impaired people. Photo by Mike Morgan Photography. Photo via Maryland Today.
Maryland Today: Blind People Struggle With Nonverbal Cues, A UMD-Cornell AI Project Could Help
INFO's Ge Gao is helping develop AI to assist blind professionals interpret nonverbal workplace cues
Douglas Oard, a noted expert in information retrieval, has been at the University of Maryland since 1996 and has been an active member of UMIACS since 1998.
University of Maryland College of Information Appoints Douglas W. Oard as Interim Dean
Douglas W. Oard named Interim Dean of UMD’s College of Information, bringing decades of leadership and research expertise
A lack of access to solid information has bred cynicism, depression and willingness to bend rules among the estimated 400 million people nationwide battling long COVID, according to new UMD research. Illustration by Adobe Stock via Maryland Today.
Maryland Today: COVID ‘Long-Haulers’ Lack Reliable Information, UMD Study Shows
INFO's Beth St. Jean finds long COVID patients face info gaps, fueling distrust and risky decisions
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INFO Students Partner with Nonprofit to Overhaul Accessibility and Make a Bigger Impact
HCIM students gain real-world UX design experience working with the American Occupational Therapy Foundation on a website redesign
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AIP Foundation News: Preserving Science Through Storytelling: MLIS Student Supports Audiovisual History at the Niels Bohr Library & Archives
MLIS student Jamila Hinds helps preserve and inventory decades of STEM media at NBLA
Anastasia Armendariz, MLIS '22
Alumni Profile: A Career in Preserving the Past, Inspiring the Future
A profile of MLIS alum Anastasia Armendariz
Sparsh Paliwal, HCIM '23
Alumni Profile: How One Alum Went From Doodling to Design Systems
A profile of HCIM alum Sparsh Paliwal
Nearly two dozen AI projects from a host of disciplines and departments across the UMD campus were funded through a new seed grant program administered by the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM). Illustration by iStock
Maryland Today: AIM Seed Grants Support 22 AI Research Projects
INFO's Vanessa Frías Martínez, Hernisa Kacorri, and Katie Shilton are driving interdisciplinary AI research through UMD’s new $1.5M …
