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CHI 2024 Roundup: UMD’s HCIL Has Another Strong Showing
May 7, 2024 | UMD HCIL MembersUMD's INFO & UMIACS led HCIL Lab continues to be a leader at the annual CHI Conference, May 11-16, 2024
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Ariel Segal (at center) and colleagues from around the world, including head of the Library of Congress Collections Digitization Division Tom Rieger (at right), at the Society for Imaging Science and Technology Archiving 2024 Conference at the National Archives celebrate after Segal's Hebrew Manuscripts presentation
Library of Congress Digitizes Rare Hebrew Manuscripts, Opening Centuries of Jewish History to the World
May 7, 2024 | Laurie RobinsonMLS alumnus Ariel Segal worked on the years-long project
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Astrid Gabriella Tagne Meleu, University of Maryland, College Park. Photo by Lisa Helfert.
Press Release: UMD Undergraduate Student Wins Prestigious U.S. Department of State Fellowship
May 2, 2024 | Foreign Affairs IT Fellowship (FAIT)Astrid Gabriella Tagne Meleu, BS of Information Science student at the UMD INFO College, will join the Foreign Affairs Information Tech …
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Press Release: UMD INFO’s Allison Jennings-Roche Named 2024 LJ Mover & Shaker
May 1, 2024 | Library JournalLJ’s Class of 2024 Movers & Shakers highlights 50 individuals helping move library work forward
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ABC-7 News: University of Maryland Launches Interdisciplinary Institute on Artificial Intelligence (ft. Sheena Erete)
April 30, 2024 | INFO StaffINFO Professor Sheena Erete will become the Associate Director of Research at UMD’s new Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Ins …
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Data, Death, and What Comes Next
April 30, 2024 | Katie ShiltonA scholar outlines how to respect the digital traces the dead leave behind
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Francena Bean-Waters of Baltimore and Tech Extension Educator Blaise Brennan '18 share a high-five after working through a smartphone operation question together. Below, Brennan explains the basics of phones and the internet as part of a class sponsored by the Marylanders Online program. Photos by John T. Consoli
Maryland Today: UMD, State Combine to Get ‘Marylanders Online’
April 25, 2024 | Maryland Today Staff | UMD$6M Program Provides Digital Access, Literacy From Baltimore to Rural Areas