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Baby Grogu on the Disney+ TV show, The Mandalorian

Baby Grogu on the Disney+ TV show, The Mandalorian

ARLIS Researchers Find a Way to Measure the “Cute” Factor on Social Media Content (ft. Susannah Paletz)

April 13, 2023 | UMD ARLIS Staff

Social media measurements are key to Susannah Paletz's project funded by the Minerva Research Initiative and the Office of Naval Resear …

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Europe’s Data Privacy Revolution: How Civic Engagement is Impacting Implementation

March 31, 2023 | Laurie Robinson

A Q&A with INFO Assistant Professor Ido Sivan-Sevilla

Screenshot of Dr. Cody Buntain and Voice of America interviewer

Dr. Cody Buntain Appears on Voice of America to Discuss the Taliban’s Use of Twitter

August 18, 2022 | Mia K. Hinckle

Research showing how the Taliban leveraged Twitter, and Twitter’s limited management of this, was shared with Voices of America’s g …

A tablet laying diagonally on a red surface with the Netflix app open.

Photo by Souvik Banerjee on Unsplash

(Video) GEM Analytics Industry Expert Series: Data and Its Application in a Streaming Media Company

May 3, 2022 | iSchool News Staff

How data is used at a streaming media company to shape the future of content.

A map of Europe with game pieces of military equipment and ships placed sporadically on top of it.

Can a Strategy Game Help AI Learn to Spot Scammers?

April 27, 2022 | Maria Herd

iSchool Associate Professor, Dr. Jordan Boyd-Graber, joins team of researchers awarded $1M to support U.S. Military’s cybersecurity f …

University of Maryland President Darryll Pines stands at a podium with the Info Challenge logo behind him on a projector

iSchool Hosts 5th Annual Info Challenge

April 7, 2022 | Hayleigh Moore

This week-long event engaged students from across the region in cybersecurity, design, and data analytics projects to tackle real-world …

A smart shopping cart being used at an Amazon Just Walk Out location

FOX5: Amazon’s ‘just walk out’ technology

April 7, 2022 | iSchool News Staff

iSchool Associate Professor Dr. Jessica Vitak shares her views on the data and privacy concerns surrounding Amazon’s new shopping tec …

Alphabet Inc.'s defunct Sidewalk Labs: Quayside project, Toronto.

Image: From Alphabet Inc.'s defunct Sidewalk Labs: Quayside project, Toronto.

REAL LIFE MAG: Seeing Without Looking

February 17, 2022 | M.R. Sauter

Sidewalk Toronto is dead, but its legacy shows there are more ways to violate one’s privacy than collecting one’s image.