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(Video) Search Mastery Speaker Series: Overview of Program & Activities

March 7, 2023 | UMD INFO Staff

An overview of program activities and opportunities related to exploring the foundations and practice of effective search engine use.

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WTOP and Yahoo News: Jen Golbeck Speaks on Social Media Issues

March 7, 2023 | INFO Staff

INFO Professor Jen Golbeck talks about scams and twitter bots.

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Rolling Stone: Twitter’s Ongoing Battle Against Bots (ft. Jen Golbeck)

March 6, 2023 | INFO Staff

INFO Professor Jen Golbeck sheds light on how Twitter bots manipulated a controversial gun control debate.

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The Discussion Section podcast: Data Ethics for Researchers, IRBs, and Journal Reviewers (ft. Jessica Vitak and Katie Shilton)

February 28, 2023 | INFO Staff

INFO professors speak about their NSF-funded research on how to regulate data.

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(Video) Sociotechnical Cybersecurity Speaker Series: Assessing the Cyber-attack Surface of Local Infrastructures

February 27, 2023 | UMD INFO Staff

Ido Sivan-Sevilla, assistant professor at the INFO College, discusses vulnerabilities in U.S. infrastructure.

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UMD INFO College: Meeting Society’s Grand Challenges

February 26, 2023 | Laurie Robinson

A list of UMD Grand Challenges Grants received by the UMD INFO College

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LA Times: Foreign Workers Affected by Tech Layoffs (ft. Sakshi Nanda and David Loshin)

February 19, 2023 | INFO Staff

Examining how visa regulations limit the amount of time foreign workers can stay in the US.

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Navigating Controversy in Computing Research: A Historical View of Data Ethics Work

February 14, 2023 | Laurie Robinson

A Q&A with Katie Shilton, associate professor and program co-director of the BS in Social Data Science at the INFO College