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Dr. Galina Reitz Develops iTAP a Collaborative Project Providing Technology Support to the Senior Community

- September 19, 2022

Local stakeholders and engaged knowledgeable students are eager to teach, support, train and help with basic computer skills.

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Dr. Cody Buntain Appears on Voice of America to Discuss the Taliban’s Use of Twitter

Mia K. Hinckle - August 18, 2022

Research 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

Hayleigh Moore - August 5, 2022

Dr. Paul T. Jaeger co-authored "Foundations of Information Literacy," the first book to offer frameworks for tackling information liter …

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3 Faculty Members Awarded $1.4 Million to Develop Library and Archival Services

INFO Staff - August 2, 2022

The 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

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

Rachael Grahame | Maryland Today - July 20, 2022

INFO College's Dr. Sergii Skakun will play a key role in building the system that could enable fairer, safer decisions on resource dist …

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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.

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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 …

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Dr. Zubin Jelveh: Machine Learning Can Predict Shooting Victimization Well Enough to Help Prevent It

Mia K. Hinckle - June 27, 2022

Using 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

Maryland Today Staff | UMD - June 3, 2022

UMD Info College faculty and students join team to develop programs to help underserved urban and rural communities access broadband in …