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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.

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Two UMD iSchool Faculty Members Join FAS COVID-19 Task Force

May 29, 2020 | iSchool News

The Federation of American Scientists has assembled teams of world-class experts to examine and advise on various facets of the COVID …

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Student-Athletes’ Use of Their Performance Data; Evaluating Tech to Regulate Anxiety – UMD iSchool Papers Awarded at CHI 2020

May 21, 2020 | iSchool News

The ACM annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) is considered the most prestigious in the field of human–comput …

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Gagan Jindal, PhD Student: Assessing the Value of Crowdsourced Repositories for Chronic Illness Management

May 12, 2020 | iSchoolNews

Assessing how adults with chronic illnesses can better manage their health through better access to health information.

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UMD iSchool and Google/Chronicle Utilize Commercial Data Mining Techniques to Develop Cybercrime Predictor

April 3, 2020 | Hayleigh Moore

Led by UMD iSchool researcher and professor Dr. Charlie Harry, the team is using machine-learning methods to extract socioeconomic char …