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Image: From Alphabet Inc.'s defunct Sidewalk Labs: Quayside project, Toronto.
REAL LIFE MAG: Seeing Without Looking
Sidewalk Toronto is dead, but its legacy shows there are more ways to violate one’s privacy than collecting one’s image.
Illustration by Darren Garrett
(Video) SoDa Symposium: Trustworthiness in Social Data Science
Researchers from UMD and Cornell University discuss the ethical dilemmas in social data science and how ethnographic studies can help g …
Dr. Tamara Clegg alongside Rubble from one of Nickelodeon’s newest shows, PAW Patrol.
iSchool Professor Dr. Tamara Clegg Stars in Nickelodeon Commercial
Clegg is an expert in youth experience and digital practices working with Nickelodeon to enhance its online learning platform, Noggin.
PhD Alumni Spotlight: Science is a Social Process – Pengyi Zhang, ‘10
Connecting people with technology to enhance decision making, foster collaborative learning, and create more inclusive online communiti …
Seven iSchool Undergraduates Join UMD’s First Sprinternship™
The students worked to create solutions to cybersecurity, IT, and other tech challenges while exploring career opportunities in informa …
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Social Data Science Major to Debut in February
New B.S. degree program to teach students how to collect, analyze data for fast-growing fields.
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Work on the Use of Intelligent Voice Assistants by Older Adults Wins ACM TOCHI Best Paper Award
The paper by iSchool PhD student Alisha Pradhan, iSchool assistant professor Dr. Amanda Lazar, and University of Washington’s Dr. Lea …
CAP students in the Expanded Arts Summer Job Program enjoy a lunch break, circa 1970 (Photo courtesy of Robert Breck Chapman Photographs at Special Collections & Archives, University of Baltimore)
Uncovering the Buried History of Baltimore’s Arts and Culture
The Inheritance Baltimore program is one of the many ways MLIS alumna, Angela Koukoui, is providing better access to her community's hi …
