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Daniel Greene: Rethinking How Schools, Libraries, and Community Orgs Tackle Poverty
Can a community barbeque be more beneficial to citizens than learning computing skills? Insights from INFO Assistant Professor Daniel G …
UMD INFO College Introduces Technology and Information Design Major
The new major focuses on building and designing prototypes for new technologies such as apps and computers.
Dr. Galina Reitz Develops iTAP a Collaborative Project Providing Technology Support to the Senior Community
Local stakeholders and engaged knowledgeable students are eager to teach, support, train and help with basic computer skills.
Dr. Cody Buntain Appears on Voice of America to Discuss the Taliban’s Use of Twitter
Research showing how the Taliban leveraged Twitter, and Twitter’s limited management of this, was shared with Voices of America’s g …
A farmer tends crops in Uganda, an area where bias in AI algorithms monitoring global crop health might misinterpret data due to a lack of knowledge of local growing methods. Photo by Nuno Almeida, Dreamstime.com
UMD Co-leads $750K NSF, Amazon Project to Tackle AI Bias in Mapping
INFO College's Dr. Sergii Skakun will play a key role in building the system that could enable fairer, safer decisions on resource dist …
Two UMD Info College PhD Students Awarded ALA Spectrum Doctoral Fellowships
This year’s Fellows will work to expand social justice curricula and increase support for doctoral students and faculty in LIS fields …
Dr. Zubin Jelveh: Machine Learning Can Predict Shooting Victimization Well Enough to Help Prevent It
Using arrest and victimization records from the Chicago PD, a machine learning model can predict the risk of being shot in the next 18 …
