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ARLIS: UMD Researchers Measure Social Media Sharing with Emotions (ft. Susannah Paletz)

October 6, 2023 | UMD ARLIS Staff
4,000+ Facebook posts were analyzed to determine the ability of different emotion models to predict post sharing.

(Video) Founders of Popular Crowdsourcing Transcription Software FromThePage Speak at CAFe Speaker Series

September 27, 2023 | INFO Staff
Sara Brumfield and Ben Brumfield talk about AI’s impact on archives at the recent INFO event
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Recent Study Finds People with Dementia Use Changing Information Behaviors when Seeking Health Information

September 19, 2023 | Olivia Borgula
INFO Assistant Professor Amanda Lazar and a team of researchers studied how people with dementia search for health information after di …
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News Release: Research Team Wins $1.5M NSF Grant to Leverage Machine Learning to Assess Mathematics Lesson Plan Quality in the Middle Grades

August 31, 2023 | Charleen Wilcox | University of Washington College of Education
Dr. Wei Ai of the UMD INFO College is a co-PI on this groundbreaking project
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Political Science Now: Fiona Shen-Bayh Receives the 2023 APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award (ft. Fiona Shen-Bayh)

August 11, 2023 | INFO Staff
Shen-Bayh was featured in Political Science Now after being recognized for her insights about the role of courts in African politics

NBC News: Some U.S. government agencies are testing out AI to help fulfill public records requests (ft. Jason R. Baron)

July 25, 2023 | INFO Staff
INFO Professor of the Practice Jason R. Baron spoke to NBC News about how AI could streamline massive amounts of public records request …
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Dr. Cody Buntain | Photo Credit UMIACS

UMIACS: Keeping Up with the Crises: Buntain Builds Digital Tools to Combat Misinformation (ft. Cody Buntain)

July 25, 2023 | Melissa Brachfeld | UMIACS
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News Release: Maryland Initiative for Digital Accessibility (MIDA) Launches

July 21, 2023 | INFO Staff
Led by the UMD INFO College, MIDA aims to change technology design to include disability communities as equal partners, proactively bui …