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ARLIS: UMD Researchers Measure Social Media Sharing with Emotions (ft. Susannah Paletz)

October 6, 2023 | UMD ARLIS Staff

4,000+ Facebook posts were analyzed to determine the ability of different emotion models to predict post sharing.

(Video) Founders of Popular Crowdsourcing Transcription Software FromThePage Speak at CAFe Speaker Series

September 27, 2023 | INFO Staff

Sara Brumfield and Ben Brumfield talk about AI’s impact on archives at the recent INFO event

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News Release: Research Team Wins $1.5M NSF Grant to Leverage Machine Learning to Assess Mathematics Lesson Plan Quality in the Middle Grades

August 31, 2023 | Charleen Wilcox | University of Washington College of Education

Dr. Wei Ai of the UMD INFO College is a co-PI on this groundbreaking project

NBC News: Some U.S. government agencies are testing out AI to help fulfill public records requests (ft. Jason R. Baron)

July 25, 2023 | INFO Staff

INFO Professor of the Practice Jason R. Baron spoke to NBC News about how AI could streamline massive amounts of public records request …

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Dr. Cody Buntain | Photo Credit UMIACS

UMIACS: Keeping Up with the Crises: Buntain Builds Digital Tools to Combat Misinformation (ft. Cody Buntain)

July 25, 2023 | Melissa Brachfeld | UMIACS

An overview of one professor's research and areas of interest

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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.