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Students competing in the 2023 Makeathon (Photo by Evan Kim Photography)
Students Compete in the 5th Annual Terps Makeathon Hosted by UX Terps
April 13, 2023 | Tatyana YevgrafovaWatch the workshops and find out who won!
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Baby Grogu on the Disney+ TV show, The Mandalorian
ARLIS Researchers Find a Way to Measure the “Cute” Factor on Social Media Content (ft. Susannah Paletz)
April 13, 2023 | UMD ARLIS StaffSocial media measurements are key to Susannah Paletz's project funded by the Minerva Research Initiative and the Office of Naval Resear …
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Let’s Chat About AI on Campus (ft. Jessica Vitak)
April 11, 2023 | Maryland Today StaffRise of Eerily Convincing Language Models Spurs Hopes, Fears About Impact on Education
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From the Urban Renewal Impact website: Asheville community members accepting the Harlin J. Gradin Humanities Award. Standing (L-R): Priscilla Ndiaye, Andrea Clarke, Deborah Miles. Seated: Dwayne Barton, Dr. Harlin J. Gradin, and Karen Loughmiller. (Photo by Urban News)
Unearthing the Hidden Legacy of Urban Renewal: Asheville’s Southside Neighborhood Reveals Intergenerational Impact
April 7, 2023 | Laurie RobinsonINFO plays a key role in a decade-long collaborative project creating a public access portal to Asheville's Southside Urban Renewal arc …
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Dr. Samantha Dubrow
(Video) OTTRS Speaker Series: Human-Machine Teaming: What Skills Do the Humans Need?
April 7, 2023 | UMD INFO StaffThe presentation highlights the human traits and abilities that maximize human-machine teaming effectiveness.
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(Video) Sociotechnical Cybersecurity Speaker Series: Coercion in Cyberspace–A Model of Extortion via Encryption
April 7, 2023 | UMD INFO StaffThe presentation highlights the human traits and abilities that maximize human-machine teaming effectiveness.
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UMD INFO PhD student Lovely-Frances Domingo, CMNS Professor Hal Daumé III and INFO Associate Professor Katie Shilton discuss some of Shilton’s work on ethics and policy for the design of information technologies. (Photo by Maria Herd)
Grand Challenges Grant Launches Values-Centered AI Initiative
April 7, 2023 | Maria Herd | UMIACSINFO's Vanessa-Frias Martinez and Katie Shilton to help lead the building a new "values-centered AI" research center.
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Dr. Mega Subramaniam and research admin team member Luis Cortes (Photo by Craig Taylor)
Computational Thinking is the New Literacy of the 21st Century—Are Students Prepared?
April 5, 2023 | Laurie RobinsonDr. Mega Subramaniam and team launched a suite of CT assessment tools for libraries to gauge the effectiveness of their CT programs.