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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 …
Two UMD Info College PhD Students Awarded ALA Spectrum Doctoral Fellowships
This year’s Fellows will work to expand social justice curricula and increase support for doctoral students and faculty in LIS fields …
Dr. Cody Buntain Wins $999K DARPA Grant to Study Social Media in Conflict Zones
Cody’s work will develop models to predict where influence efforts by actors might emerge online.
How Taliban Used Twitter to take over Afghanistan
Dr. Cody Buntain looks at how the Taliban made effective use of Twitter to engage with and manipulate international and domestic audien …
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 …
UMD Info College Welcomes Eleven New Faculty Members
With strengths in library and archives innovation, experiential design, online and social media communities, sociotechnical and cultura …
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Two UMD Info College Faculty Members Establish New Archival Repatriation Committee
The new Committee is a major step towards enacting more Native and Indigenous repatriation archival policy.
