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Dr. Cody Buntain Appears on Voice of America to Discuss the Taliban’s Use of Twitter
August 18, 2022 | Mia K. HinckleResearch showing how the Taliban leveraged Twitter, and Twitter’s limited management of this, was shared with Voices of America’s g …
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Info College Faculty and Alumna Publish New Book on Information Literacy and Disinformation
August 5, 2022 | Hayleigh MooreDr. Paul T. Jaeger co-authored "Foundations of Information Literacy," the first book to offer frameworks for tackling information liter …
3 Faculty Members Awarded $1.4 Million to Develop Library and Archival Services
August 2, 2022 | INFO StaffThe Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program awarded 3 Professors funding which suppor …
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 TodayINFO College's Dr. Sergii Skakun will play a key role in building the system that could enable fairer, safer decisions on resource dist …
Dr. Cody Buntain Wins $999K DARPA Grant to Study Social Media in Conflict Zones
July 11, 2022 |Cody’s work will develop models to predict where influence efforts by actors might emerge online.
How Taliban Used Twitter to take over Afghanistan
July 11, 2022 |Dr. Cody Buntain looks at how the Taliban made effective use of Twitter to engage with and manipulate international and domestic audien …
Dr. Zubin Jelveh: Machine Learning Can Predict Shooting Victimization Well Enough to Help Prevent It
June 27, 2022 | Mia K. HinckleUsing arrest and victimization records from the Chicago PD, a machine learning model can predict the risk of being shot in the next 18 …
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Maryland Today: $6M Award From State to Help Extension Bridge Digital Divide
June 3, 2022 | Maryland Today Staff | UMDUMD Info College faculty and students join team to develop programs to help underserved urban and rural communities access broadband in …
Screenshot of an observation session on Zoom from the research study, with Dr. Emma Dixon, Ms. Diana Blackwelder, and a study participant (anonymized with an icon) viewing an NIH webpage reporting on risk factors for heart disease linked to dementia.
How People with Dementia Access Health Information
May 26, 2022 | Liz ZogbyDr. Amanda Lazar and her team examine the barriers faced by people with dementia to accessing relevant, accurate health information.