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Researchers Use Deep Learning, VHR Satellite Imagery to Map Artillery Craters in Eastern Ukraine

June 29, 2023 | GEOG Department

INFO Assistant Professor Sergii Skakun examines detecting and mapping artillery craters in Eastern Ukraine.

Improving Fairness in Classrooms Through Machine Learning

June 7, 2023 | UMIACS Staff

Wei AI develops a platform to analyze teachers’ instructions and provide feedback.

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(Video) Sociotechnical Cybersecurity Speaker Series: Coercion in Cyberspace–A Model of Extortion via Encryption

April 7, 2023 | UMD INFO Staff

The presentation highlights the human traits and abilities that maximize human-machine teaming effectiveness.

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UMD Researchers Awarded Grant to Study Pretrial Detention in Criminal Cases Across MD

December 13, 2022 | Laurie Robinson

According to lead investigator, Dr. Zubin Jelveh, there is still a gap in understanding how decisions are made about who should be deta …

A farmer tends crops in Uganda, an area where bias in AI algorithms monitoring global crop health might misinterpret data due to a lack of knowledge of local growing methods. Photo by Nuno Almeida, Dreamstime.com

A farmer tends crops in Uganda, an area where bias in AI algorithms monitoring global crop health might misinterpret data due to a lack of knowledge of local growing methods. Photo by Nuno Almeida, Dreamstime.com

UMD Co-leads $750K NSF, Amazon Project to Tackle AI Bias in Mapping

July 20, 2022 | Rachael Grahame | Maryland Today

INFO College's Dr. Sergii Skakun will play a key role in building the system that could enable fairer, safer decisions on resource dist …

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(Video) Search Mastery Speaker Series: Manchester vs. Cranfield

May 5, 2022 | iSchool News Staff

A discussion about why we answer questions, and how a new paradigm can justify crafting search queries that go beyond information seeki …

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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 …

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Improving Fairness and Trust in AI Used for College Admissions and Language Translation

April 15, 2022 | Tom Ventsias

iSchool Assistant Professor Dr. Ge Gao joins $1.6M NSF/Amazon-funded project to develop algorithms and protocols that can improve the e …