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Nearly 150 students, alumni, and information professionals filled South Hall this past weekend for the School of Information’s fourth annual InfoCamp, an ‘unconference’ for the information community.
Automatic connects your smartphone to your car’s onboard computer, helping consumers save money, drive smarter, and understand what’s happening under the hood.
The SXSW Interactive Festival is set to welcome I School alumna danah boyd as the second member of its Hall of Fame, calling her a “trend-setter whose career accomplishments have paved the future of the new media industry.” Dr. boyd received her Ph.D from the School of Information in 2008 and is currently a member of the School of Information Advisory Board.
Who are we? How are we making a difference in the world? — And how can you be a part of it?
Research on Sharetribe, a community sharing site, found that users fear owing each other a debt of gratitude and are reluctant to ask for help.
New research reveals how information systems can replace person-to-person service encounters by substituting information for interaction.
The electronic book industry is booming, but so are complaints about the current e-book publishing system. Now a group of I School students is developing a next-generation open-source, cross-platform framework for the electronic books of the future.
Three faculty and students from the School of Information are presenting this week at the 5th annual Intelligent Content Conference in San Francisco.
A report on mobile privacy released this morning by the Federal Trade Commission incorporates a number of recommendations from Ph.D. student Jennifer King. King is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the School of Information, where she studies online privacy and how people make their privacy decisions.