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Turning Hand-Planted Seeds into Data-Driven Harvests
August 13, 2025 | Laurie RobinsonAn iConsultancy partnership with Roots Africa helps the organization maximize their data
Led by the University of Maryland, TRAILS was launched in May 2023 with a $20 million award from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The institute is focused on developing, building and modeling participatory research that—over time—will increase trust in AI. Illustration courtesy of TRAILS. Image via Maryland Today.
Maryland Today: $750K in Seed Grants Awarded by UMD-Led Coalition on Trustworthy AI
July 23, 2025 | Tom Ventsias | Maryland Today | UMDSix INFO faculty are among researchers awarded $750K+ in TRAILS funding to advance trustworthy, human-centered AI innovation
Reimagining Information Access: How INFO Is Centering Immigrant Voices in Tech, Policy & Archives
May 27, 2025 | Laurie RobinsonThe Immigration and International Information Research Alliance (i3r) flips traditional scholarship on its head, treating immigrants as …
(Video) SoDa Symposium: “Prompt Engineering to Support AI Enabled Research”
April 16, 2025 | INFO StaffFeaturing 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)
April 15, 2025 | INFO StaffINFO’s Jessica Vitak warns of privacy risks as 23andMe’s DNA database faces uncertainty after bankruptcy filing
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)
March 27, 2025 | Maryland Today Staff | UMDINFO’s Abdirisak Mohamed joins UMD researchers in designing a market-driven approach to AI safety
(Video) Tech Policy Speaker Series: “How Can Empiricism Improve Privacy Enforcement?”
March 25, 2025 | INFO StaffFeaturing Dr. Aileen Nielsen, Harvard Law School, and Dr. Mehdi Arfaoui, CNIL's Digital Innovation Lab (LINC)
“If you ask policymakers, ‘How big is the attack surface on a state or national level?’ they would say, ‘I don’t know,’” said UMD Associate Research Professor Charles Harry. His research team used open-source tools to find the answers. Illustration by iStock.
Maryland Today: UMD Researchers Calculate Cyberattack Risk for All 50 States
February 5, 2025 | John Tucker | Maryland TodayScholars Aggregate Threats to Thousands of County Governments to Draw Conclusions
