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UME Tech Extension Educators, from left to right: Keri Grant, Blaise Brennan, Shelita Jackson, Maria Barga, Naimani Staley, Program Manager Vishnypriya Desai, and Aziz Hurtado Olson.
News Release: Resources, Connections, and Bridging the Digital Divide Together: The 2023 Maryland Statewide Digital Equity Summit
Recapping the inaugural Maryland Statewide Digital Equity Summit on November 9, 2023
Five Ways to Reimagine Smart Growth
Envisioning neighborhoods that range from micro-economies to climate-crisis-adaptive
UMD Empowering More Maryland Residents to Become Digitally Connected
The $6M UMD Extension & INFO initiative focuses on expanding broadband access coupled with digital literacy training
Photo by Ant Rozetsky / Unsplash
New App to Empower Baltimoreans to Advocate for Better Public Transit
INFO and BSOS are working on a toolkit to help determine the pain points Baltimoreans experience on their commutes.
Parkdale High School Students and UMD Team Up to Mitigate Local Flooding
A new partnership between INFO and ARCH will educate youth in critical data science and help them become environmental stewards.
(Video) Sociotechnical Cybersecurity Speaker Series: Coercion in Cyberspace–A Model of Extortion via Encryption
The presentation highlights the human traits and abilities that maximize human-machine teaming effectiveness.
Frias-Martinez Joins UMD Effort Focused on Food and Nutrition Security
The multidisciplinary team received a $750K NSF grant to address the challenges of food security in Maryland.
Daniel Greene: Rethinking How Schools, Libraries, and Community Orgs Tackle Poverty
Can a community barbeque be more beneficial to citizens than learning computing skills? Insights from INFO Assistant Professor Daniel G …
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
INFO College's Dr. Sergii Skakun will play a key role in building the system that could enable fairer, safer decisions on resource dist …