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$1M NSF Award to Support Data-powered Fight Against Pandemics

System to Use Social Media, GPS, Government Data to Improve Predictive Models, Communications

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Where-able Sensors

Researchers’ Robotic Activity Sensor System Travels Around Your Body to Optimize Monitoring

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Study Finds Neighborhood Features Impact Mental and Physical Health for Better or Worse

Risks for Depression, Diabetes, Obesity and High Blood Pressure Connected to Built Environment

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System Breaks Down Barriers for Blind Web Designers

Computer Science Researchers’ Touch, Audio-based Interface Provides Autonomy and Accessibility

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The Modern Battle for Maryland’s Oysters

UMD Researchers Use AI and Robotics to Save Struggling Industry After Diseases (and Pirates) Plunder Cheasapeake’s Bounty

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The ‘Amazing’ Year

Alum Talks Strategy and Struggles, Competing in Third Reality Show Since Summer 2021

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A Peek Inside … Derek Yarnell’s Office

UMIACS Director of Computing Facilities Shares Vast ‘Simpsons’ Collection, Makerspace Creations

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Maryland Quantum-Thermodynamics Hub Launches With $2M Grant

Emerging Field Combines Modern Physics With Victorian-era Science

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Creeped Out by Online Ads? A UMD Researcher Is Studying How Companies Target You

Project Aims to Create Tools for Greater Transparency

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Op/ed: AI Needs Pragmatists and Blue-Sky Visionaries

Next-gen Tech Can Amaze—and Respect Human Values

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UMD Researchers Create Unremovable Watermark to Secure Intellectual Property in Age of AI

As Advanced Computing Proliferates Commercially, New Method Could Ward Off Copycats

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Mapping the Quantum Frontier

UMD Expands Its Footprint as the ‘Capital of Quantum’ With the Latest Lab and Institute to Advance Mind-bending Computing

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