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Photo of Dr. Jen Golbeck
Maryland Today: ‘Beyond the Field’ Homecoming Address Takes on Promise—and Risks—of AI (ft. Jen Golbeck)
Systems Are Subject to Same Biases, Truthfulness Challenges as Society at Large

CAFe members and volunteers at the 2023 Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon (Photo Credit: Sarah Grun)
UMD Center for Archival Futures (CAFe) is Shaping Archives and Preservation
CAFe aims to create access to cultural memory at previously unprecedented scales

(Video) Search Mastery: Maps, Models, and Metrics for Influence in Conflict Zones
Featuring INFO assistant professor Cody Buntain

MLIS Faculty and Students Partner with Piscataway Leaders to Curate an Inventory of Piscataway Materials
The INFO College's MLIS Curriculum Uses Hands-on Approach to Train Future Archivists

ARLIS: UMD Researchers Measure Social Media Sharing with Emotions (ft. Susannah Paletz)
4,000+ Facebook posts were analyzed to determine the ability of different emotion models to predict post sharing.

Photo collage by Maryland Today staff featuring left to right: David Betancourt, Amber Wendland, Michael Prakhye, Cara Grant, Brent Barbee
Maryland Today: The Cool Day Jobs of UMD’s Adjunct Professors (ft. Michael Prakhye)
How 5 Lecturers Bring Real-World Expertise to the Classroom

(Video) Founders of Popular Crowdsourcing Transcription Software FromThePage Speak at CAFe Speaker Series
Sara Brumfield and Ben Brumfield talk about AI’s impact on archives at the recent INFO event