iSchool Professor Studies Artificial Intelligence

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Dr. Jonathan Adams and his team of Computer Science students are working hard on developing applications for Artificial Intelligence (AI). “We were awarded a grant by the Student Technology Fee Advisory Committee, which allowed us to buy a computer designed for machine learning.” Dr. Adams explains. He then recruited two students from the Undergraduate Research …

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Visiting Speaker Bridges the Gap Between Arts and Sciences

What does an interdisciplinary scholar look like?  Look no further than Dr. Youngmoo Kim from Drexel University. Dr. Kim has devoted his entire career to transdisciplinary education, and currently serves as Director of Drexel’s Expressive and Creative Interaction Technologies (ExCITe) Center and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. With an impressive background in electrical engineering, …

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iSchool Alumna Discovering Civil War History in Virginia

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Before moving to Winchester, Virginia, Trish Ridgeway was a reference librarian and bibliographic instruction specialist in academic libraries. Upon moving to Winchester, Trish was named the Director of the Handley Library where she worked tirelessly until her retirement in 2013. Some of her accomplishments include tripling the library’s endowment, building two new branches, and updating …

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iSchool Professor Receives NSF Grant

Dr. Yolanda A. Rankin, an Assistant Professor in the School of Information, has been awarded a $342,566 Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund her research which examines the lived intersectional experiences of Black women in computing. Her project, titled “Building a Sisterhood in Computing (BASiC),” aims to develop a deeper understanding of the …

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Professor Shares Cyberbullying Research Across Europe

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Written by Dr. Shuyuan Ho. Associate Professor Shuyuan Mary Ho of FSU School of Information presented her research, “Charged language on Twitter: A predictive model of cyberbullying to prevent victimization,” in Munich, Germany, in December 2019. Dr. Ho gave a presentation at the Workshop on Information Security and Privacy as part of the International Conference …

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