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BINFO builds community for Black students in Informatics

Friday, November 8, 2024

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 dedicated to fostering the professional, academic and personal development of Black students in the iSchool’s...

Step by step, professor makes health tracking more inclusive

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

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 with disabilities — the blind person who cannot read a touchscreen at the gym or the older person whose...

AI tools show biases in ranking job applicants’ names according to perceived race and gender

Monday, November 4, 2024

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 resumes and screen applicants. An estimated...

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