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Improving Fairness and Trust in AI Used for College Admissions and Language Translation
iSchool Assistant Professor Dr. Ge Gao joins $1.6M NSF/Amazon-funded project to develop algorithms and protocols that can improve the e …

MLIS Alumni Spotlight: The Joys of Aging Using VR – Erin Washington, MLIS ‘09
Creating first-person, virtual reality experiences to enhance empathy and address growing issues in the caretaking industry.

HCIL Faculty and Students to Participate in CHI 2022
23 members of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab will present their research at prestigious HCI conference.

PhD Alumni Spotlight: Empowering Kids and Adults to Design Better Together – Greg Walsh, ‘12
Alumni’s PhD experience inspired the launch of two research groups to develop new technology for youth and other in-need communities. …

iSchool Hosts 5th Annual Info Challenge
This week-long event engaged students from across the region in cybersecurity, design, and data analytics projects to tackle real-world …

(Video) Search Mastery Speaker Series: Supporting Children’s Online Information Discovery
Dr. Jerry Alan Fails and Dr. Sole Pera present CAST, a new search engine interface developed to empower emergent searchers and improve …

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Blog This: Transforming How Students Engage and Learn from Visualization Research
Writer Alexandra Khoo chats with iSchool Professor Niklas Elmqvist about the origins of his popular data visualization blog, VisUMD.