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...
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...
At her desk and in the gym, Ashley Farley is drawn to difficulty. She tackles intractable problems within the academic publishing industry in her role at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and her favorite weightlifting move is...
According to a 2021 Pew Research study, 41 percent of U.S. adults have personally experienced some form of online harassment. The latest statistics from SafeHome.org indicate that as many as 7.5 million people experience online...
More than a third of Americans now use health-care apps and wearable devices, tracking everything from walking steps, heart rates, caloric intake and running speeds to daily moods, hourly medications and monthly fertility cycles. For users...
For Informatics students Thomas Emnetu and Ahmed Ghaddah, the search for belonging and community on campus led to something greater than themselves. In fall 2023, they co-founded Black in Informatics (BINFO), a student organization...
While most people like giving gifts, plenty don’t particularly like shopping for those gifts — drifting through online search results, comparing 4.3 stars to 4.5 stars. But big tech is racing for a future in which artificial intelligence bots can shop for you. Among the buzziest tech this season is a new...
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...
The future of hiring, it seems, is automated. Applicants can now use artificial intelligence bots to apply to job listings by the thousands. And companies — which have long automated parts of the process — are now deploying the latest AI large language models to write job descriptions, sift through...
The 2024 election cycle is accompanied by a wave of rumors surrounding policies and candidates. Some of these rumors may hold truth, while others are false or unsubstantiated. To address this, the Center for an Informed Public (CIP) is working to educate about these rumors through its election blog series, a...
The iSchool will surpass 2,000 students next quarter, a milestone that reflects the growing urgency of an education in information science. Students see the value of programs that blend technology and liberal arts and put them on a path to a rewarding career.This academic year, we will admit close to 600...
