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Improving Fairness in Classrooms Through Machine Learning
Wei AI develops a platform to analyze teachers’ instructions and provide feedback.
(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.
UMD INFO PhD student Lovely-Frances Domingo, CMNS Professor Hal Daumé III and INFO Associate Professor Katie Shilton discuss some of Shilton’s work on ethics and policy for the design of information technologies. (Photo by Maria Herd)
Grand Challenges Grant Launches Values-Centered AI Initiative
INFO's Vanessa-Frias Martinez and Katie Shilton to help lead the building a new "values-centered AI" research center.
UMD Researchers Awarded Grant to Study Pretrial Detention in Criminal Cases Across MD
According to lead investigator, Dr. Zubin Jelveh, there is still a gap in understanding how decisions are made about who should be deta …
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 …
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(Video) Search Mastery Speaker Series: Manchester vs. Cranfield
A discussion about why we answer questions, and how a new paradigm can justify crafting search queries that go beyond information seeki …
Can a Strategy Game Help AI Learn to Spot Scammers?
iSchool Associate Professor, Dr. Jordan Boyd-Graber, joins team of researchers awarded $1M to support U.S. Military’s cybersecurity f …
