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Maryland Today: New Teaching Innovation Grants to Support Surge of Educational Tech (ft. Caro Williams-Pierce)

April 18, 2024 | Annie Krakower | Maryland Today

Awards for 24 Projects Fund Use of AI, Gamification, and More in the Classroom

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NPR News: The Future of TikTok in the United States (ft. Jen Golbeck)

April 17, 2024 | INFO Staff

INFO Professor Jen Golbeck discusses TikTok data collection with NPR

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Democratizing Information: Volunteer Transcribers Enable Access to Cultural Heritage Materials

April 16, 2024 | Laurie Robinson

Crowdsourced transcriptions are making historical documents more accessible for those who use screen readers

MD Today: Website Help for the Helpers

April 12, 2024 | Lucy Hubbard | Maryland Today | UMD

Students create custom software for nonprofits, sponsored by the INFO College

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ACM: Community Is Critical Too

April 12, 2024 | Tamara Clegg

Leveraging community to broaden the faces, places, and interlaces of computing.

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News Release: UMD Launches Institute Focused on Ethical AI Development

April 9, 2024 | UMD Staff

INFO's Dr. Sheena Erete will serve as the Associate Director of Research of the new AI Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM)

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(Video) OTTRS Speaker Series: Gamification for Team Science and Human-AI Teaming

April 9, 2024 | Logan Delavan-Hoover

AI researcher speaks on teamwork with autonomous systems

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Dr. Tamara Clegg Presenting Research at the 2022 HCIL Symposium

Dr. Tamara Clegg Recognized for Involving Practitioners in Education Research

April 8, 2024 | AERA Staff

News Release: AERA Announces 2024 Award Winners in Education Research

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Photo illustration by iStock/Maria Herd M.A. ’19

MD Today: Reliable ER Translations Might Be Job for Humans, AI Together (ft. Ge Gao)

April 3, 2024 | Maria Herd | UMIACS

UMD researchers are part of team tackling potentially dangerous source of health care errors