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Medium: HCIL 2019-2020 News Roundup

June 22, 2020 | Huaishu Peng
UMD Human-Computer Interaction Lab’s (HCIL) 2019-2020 accomplishments
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Press Release: Naeemul Hassan Awarded $228,000 NSF Grant For Collaborative Project

June 22, 2020 | UMD Philip Merrill College of Journalism
Dr. Naeemul Hassan and collaborators aim to design and develop computational models to automatically detect video clickbait. 
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Medium: Engaging the Commons in Participatory Sensing

June 22, 2020 | Yongle Zhang
Research on participatory sensing, the practice of using human participants to gather data on their mobile devices from their environm …
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David Weintrop Awarded Prestigious National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship

June 18, 2020 | Chris Samoray
Dr. David Weintrop receives $70K award to integrate computing and the powerful ideas of computer science into classrooms.
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School Library Journal: COVID-19 Is an Opportunity to Rethink Youth Librarianship | Reimagining Libraries, featuring Mega Subramaniam

June 12, 2020 | Mega Subramaniam
Discusses how libraries have adapted to continue serving their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Digital Privacy News: Ease of Voice Recognition Technology Brings Great Risks, featuring Jessica Vitak

June 12, 2020 | Jessica Vitak
Technology creates additional convenience for users, it poses a threat to their privacy.
New Co-Principal Investigator Added to SFS Grant: Charles Harry

New Co-Principal Investigator Added to SFS Grant: Charles Harry

June 11, 2020 | ACES
The CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS) grant is funded through the National Science Foundation to provide educational and profes …
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MLIS Students Get Hands-on Experience Digitizing Documents

June 4, 2020 | Morgan Adle
MLIS students specializing in Archives and Digital Curation seek hands-on experience digitizing historic material.
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Getting Personal: How People Who are Blind Can Leverage AI to Access the Visual World

May 29, 2020 | Hayleigh Moore
The Teachable Object Recognizer mobile application uses AI and machine learning to help access the visual world.