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UMD iSchool @ the ACM’s 2020 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)
UMD iSchool's Dr. Jessica Vitak discusses the college's robust participation in the ACM's prestigious CSCW 2020 Conference.
Faculty Spotlight: Assistant Professor, Naeemul Hassan
Naeemul is focused on computational journalism and social sensing, working on a number of projects with faculty and staff from the UMD …
Dr. Niklas Elmqvist & Purdue to Develop Virtual Reality Workforce Training Tech
Funded by a $5M NSF Grant to develop more effective workforce training methods using augmented, virtual, and extended realities.
UMD iSchool Helping to Create Safer Roadways Through Data Visualization
As part of PG County's Vision Zero project, the dashboard will help to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2040.
University of Maryland Launches New Social Data Science Center with Support from Facebook
Initial Projects include Survey Tools to Track, Predict COVID-19 ‘Hot Spots’
Maryland Today: Visualizing Vehicle Safety, featuring TJ Rainsford
Led by PhD student TJ Rainsford, an iSchool team created a geographical data visualization tool to support PG County's initiative to …
UMD iSchool Welcomes Seven New Faculty Members
With strengths in library and archives innovation, digital curation, criminal justice data science, socio-technical aspects of cybersec …
