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News Release: Announcing the Do Good Campus Fund Recipients: Grant Program Returns to UMD for Second Year (ft. Heera Lee)
INFO’s Heera Lee receives 2025 Do Good Award to lead a student capstone focused on inclusive, community-centered design
(Video) SoDa Symposium: “Prompt Engineering to Support AI Enabled Research”
Featuring Claire Kelley, senior data scientist and co-director for data science at Child Trends, and Trent D. Buskirk, professor at the …
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Business Insider: Here’s What Potential 23andMe Buyers Could Do with Your Genetic Data (ft. Jessica Vitak)
INFO’s Jessica Vitak warns of privacy risks as 23andMe’s DNA database faces uncertainty after bankruptcy filing
New UMD research found that even when prompts using generative artificial intelligence lean toward positive emotion, such as joy or excitement, the images generated from these prompts tend to evoke fear as the dominant emotion. Illustration by Adobe Stock.
Maryland Today: How Images Reflect AI’s Dark ‘Spiral’ (ft. Cody Buntain)
INFO Assistant Professor Cody Buntain explores biases in generative AI, revealing how models often produce more negative content
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The New Frontline: AI, Images, and Information Influence
A UMD-led project is leveraging AI to help the U.S. Air Force and Space Force understand—and counter—the powerful role of visual me …
(Video) CAFe Speaker Series: “Developing the Maryland State Archives’ Indigenous Records Website for Engagement and Access”
Featuring Maria Day, Senior Director of Special Collections, Conservation, and Library Services at Maryland State Archives
(Video) Search Mastery Speaker Series: “Search and the News”
Dr. Daniel Trielli discusses how search engines impact news, media bias, and journalism’s future in the digital age
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Lessons from COVID: INFO’s Unexpected Remote Learning Revolution
Human-centered approaches to teaching and learning remotely endure, improving access
Instead of regulators playing catch-up, AI developers could help create safer systems if market-based incentives were put in place, UMD researchers say. Illustration by iStock.
Maryland Today: UMD Research Sends AI Safety to Market (ft. Abdirisak Mohamed)
INFO’s Abdirisak Mohamed joins UMD researchers in designing a market-driven approach to AI safety