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Melissa Brachfeld

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Researchers Can Now Track Listeners’ Attention Using Just Earbuds and Echoes

UMD Doctoral Student, Multi-Institutional Partners Develop Method That Forgoes Bulky, Complex Instruments

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UMD Researchers Sketch Out Path to Smarter Robots

System Teaches Complex Tasks to Bots Using Simple Human Drawings

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An Alternative to Speech: Writing in the Air With ‘Sonic Ink’

UMD Researchers Provide New Way for People With Disabilities to Control Digital Voice Assistants

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Uncovering Brain Processes Related to Relapse

UMD Team's Research Could Help Lead to New Treatments for Opioid Use Disorder

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Haptic Hardware Offers Waterfall of Immersive Experience

‘Sensational’ New Gaming Tech Could Someday Aid Blind Users

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The National Archives Has Over 10B Undigitized Pages. UMD Experts Are Working to Make Finding Records Easier.

Team Pursues Advanced Digital Solutions to Ease Historical Research

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To Build Better Robots, UMD Researchers Are Making Them Think More Like Us

$2.8M DARPA Award Aims for Symbolic Reasoning in Autonomous Systems

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To Hunt for Better Malaria Vaccines, Researchers Turn to Machine Learning

Study Creates Ranking of Drug Development Targets That UMD, UMB Uncovered

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$1M NSF Award Supports Reimagining Cryptography in a Post-Quantum World

Scientists Say Digital Safeguards Require Forward-Looking Efforts in Research, Education

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$3M NIH Grant Supports Genomic Approach to Curing ‘Neglected’ Disease

UMD Researcher Explores Conditions That Turn Devastating Skin Ailment On, Off

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Can a UMD Algorithm Understand ‘Star Trek’ Aliens?

Researcher Puts Natural Language Processing to the Test With Sci-Fi Language

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How AI Could Help Writers Spot Stereotypes

Tool to Identify Social Biases in Creative Writing Ultimately Leaves Artists in Control

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