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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. …

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AIC: UMD Student Project Featured on Japanese Television
The students' research follows second generation Japanese American who was forcibly removed from his home after the attacks on Pearl Ha …

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 …

FOX5: Amazon’s ‘just walk out’ technology
iSchool Associate Professor Dr. Jessica Vitak shares her views on the data and privacy concerns surrounding Amazon’s new shopping tec …

(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 …

BSOS, iSchool and Department of Computer Science Unveil New Undergraduate Badging Program
Maryland students can now earn an employer-approved stamp of data science success via a collaboration with the Greater Washington Partn …

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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.