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iSchool Faculty and Staff Join Global Team to Launch New Publication
April 15, 2022 | Hayleigh Moore"Including Disability" offers innovative approaches to eliminating systemic barriers and gives voice to disabled people.
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Improving Fairness and Trust in AI Used for College Admissions and Language Translation
April 15, 2022 | Tom VentsiasiSchool Assistant Professor Dr. Ge Gao joins $1.6M NSF/Amazon-funded project to develop algorithms and protocols that can improve the e …
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(Video) SoDa Symposium: Universal Adaptability – A Target-Independent Approach to Inference
April 14, 2022 | iSchool News StaffDrs. Christoph Kern and Michael P. Kim present framework for ensuring protections of subpopulations and unbiased algorithmic conclusion …
HCIL Faculty and Students to Participate in CHI 2022
April 12, 2022 | Hayleigh Moore23 members of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab will present their research at prestigious HCI conference.
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AIC: UMD Student Project Featured on Japanese Television
April 11, 2022 | iSchool News StaffThe students' research follows second generation Japanese American who was forcibly removed from his home after the attacks on Pearl Ha …
FOX5: Amazon’s ‘just walk out’ technology
April 7, 2022 | iSchool News StaffiSchool Associate Professor Dr. Jessica Vitak shares her views on the data and privacy concerns surrounding Amazon’s new shopping tec …
(Video) Search Mastery Speaker Series: Supporting Children’s Online Information Discovery
April 6, 2022 | iSchool News StaffDr. Jerry Alan Fails and Dr. Sole Pera present CAST, a new search engine interface developed to empower emergent searchers and improve …
BSOS, iSchool and Department of Computer Science Unveil New Undergraduate Badging Program
April 5, 2022 | iSchool News StaffMaryland students can now earn an employer-approved stamp of data science success via a collaboration with the Greater Washington Partn …
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Blog This: Transforming How Students Engage and Learn from Visualization Research
March 28, 2022 | iSchool News StaffWriter Alexandra Khoo chats with iSchool Professor Niklas Elmqvist about the origins of his popular data visualization blog, VisUMD.