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New DoD Minerva Research Initiative Project
June 16, 2023 | School of EngineeringJen Golbeck lends expertise to help explore alternative institutional designs
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Parkdale High School Students and UMD Team Up to Mitigate Local Flooding
June 5, 2023 | Laurie RobinsonA new partnership between INFO and ARCH will educate youth in critical data science and help them become environmental stewards.
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Maryland Today: When a Cat Video Elicits More Than Warm Fuzzies (ft. Susannah Paletz)
May 10, 2023 | Maggie Haslam | UMDResearchers Look at Human Responses to ‘Cuteness’ in Social Media
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Cracking the Privacy Code: Navigating the Condor Dataset while Safeguarding User Identities
April 28, 2023 | Laurie RobinsonA Q&A with INFO Assistant Professor Cody Buntain
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(Video) SoDa Symposium: A Dialogue at the Intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Social Data Science Methods
April 21, 2023 | UMD INFO StaffINFO Professor Jen Golbeck and JPSM instructor Jen Romano spoke on a panel moderated by INFO Professor Wayne Lutters.
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Students competing in the 2023 Makeathon (Photo by Evan Kim Photography)
Students Compete in the 5th Annual Terps Makeathon Hosted by UX Terps
April 13, 2023 | Tatyana YevgrafovaWatch the workshops and find out who won!
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Let’s Chat About AI on Campus (ft. Jessica Vitak)
April 11, 2023 | Maryland Today StaffRise of Eerily Convincing Language Models Spurs Hopes, Fears About Impact on Education
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Data Everywhere: Making Sense of Our Digital Landscape
March 30, 2023 | Laurie RobinsonINFO, UMIACS, CMNS, as part of the UMD Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL), unlock the potential of ubiquitous data.