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Digital Privacy News: Ease of Voice Recognition Technology Brings Great Risks, featuring Jessica Vitak

Technology creates additional convenience for users, it poses a threat to their privacy.

New Co-Principal Investigator Added to SFS Grant: Charles Harry

The CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS) grant is funded through the National Science Foundation to provide educational and profes …

MLIS Students Get Hands-on Experience Digitizing Documents

MLIS students specializing in Archives and Digital Curation seek hands-on experience digitizing historic material.

Getting Personal: How People Who are Blind Can Leverage AI to Access the Visual World

The Teachable Object Recognizer mobile application uses AI and machine learning to help access the visual world.

Two UMD iSchool Faculty Members Join FAS COVID-19 Task Force

The Federation of American Scientists has assembled teams of world-class experts to examine and advise on various facets of the COVID …

Student-Athletes’ Use of Their Performance Data; Evaluating Tech to Regulate Anxiety – UMD iSchool Papers Awarded at CHI 2020

The ACM annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) is considered the most prestigious in the field of human–comput …

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Gagan Jindal, PhD Student: Assessing the Value of Crowdsourced Repositories for Chronic Illness Management

Assessing how adults with chronic illnesses can better manage their health through better access to health information.

UMD Researchers Develop Tech Trainings to Educate Retirement Communities Amidst Growing Isolation Concerns

UMD iSchool and Google/Chronicle Utilize Commercial Data Mining Techniques to Develop Cybercrime Predictor

Led by UMD iSchool researcher and professor Dr. Charlie Harry, the team is using machine-learning methods to extract socioeconomic char …