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'A warrior for social justice': Helene Williams retires

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

iSchool Teaching Professor Helene Williams asks a lot of tough questions. Who, she challenges Master of Library and Information Science students, are libraries serving? Importantly, who are they not serving? What can libraries do differently to accommodate unheard and underrepresented voices? How can you, as a librarian-in-training, help move the...

Batya Friedman receives Future of Life Award

Monday, December 9, 2024

Trained as a computer scientist in the late 1970s, Batya Friedman has been asking questions about how to live well in the world and how to treat people with dignity and respect. These questions, along with an interest in tools and technology, drew Friedman to ask herself how she could build something that would be more likely to contribute in a...

iSchool's Wobbrock honored with Lasting Impact Award

Friday, December 6, 2024

Professor Jacob O. Wobbrock and two colleagues recently were recognized with the prestigious ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) Lasting Impact Award for a paper that became a foundation of gesture-recognition technology.The highest honor the conference bestows, the ACM UIST Lasting Impact Award annually recognizes a paper that is at...

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