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New App to Empower Baltimoreans to Advocate for Better Public Transit
INFO and BSOS are working on a toolkit to help determine the pain points Baltimoreans experience on their commutes.

Parkdale High School Students and UMD Team Up to Mitigate Local Flooding
A new partnership between INFO and ARCH will educate youth in critical data science and help them become environmental stewards.

(Video) Sociotechnical Cybersecurity Speaker Series: Coercion in Cyberspace–A Model of Extortion via Encryption
The presentation highlights the human traits and abilities that maximize human-machine teaming effectiveness.

Frias-Martinez Joins UMD Effort Focused on Food and Nutrition Security
The multidisciplinary team received a $750K NSF grant to address the challenges of food security in Maryland.

Daniel Greene: Rethinking How Schools, Libraries, and Community Orgs Tackle Poverty
Can a community barbeque be more beneficial to citizens than learning computing skills? Insights from INFO Assistant Professor Daniel G …

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

Dr. Zubin Jelveh: Machine Learning Can Predict Shooting Victimization Well Enough to Help Prevent It
Using arrest and victimization records from the Chicago PD, a machine learning model can predict the risk of being shot in the next 18 …