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Commencement Awards Honor Graduating Students

May 16, 2015

The School of Information 2015 graduation ceremony honored 3 outstanding MIMS final projects plus outstanding faculty and students.

Winning MIMS Final Project Videos Announced

May 14, 2015

Winning projects support Chinese NGOs, provide fresh groceries to food-stamp recipients, and encourage better fitness habits.

Professor Mulligan Urges Cybersecurity Law Reform

May 11, 2015

Statement to US Copyright Office urges reform of the laws inhibiting cybersecurity research.

Snapily Project Wins Mobile App Challenge Prize

May 6, 2015

Snapily is a shopping app offering grocery pickup services to low-income residents, including SNAP and WIC participants, and increasing access to a healthy, affordable food.

Hal Varian Named AEA Distinguished Fellow

Apr 30, 2015

Hal Varian, professor emeritus and former dean of the School of Information, has been named a 2015 Distinguished Fellow by the American Economic Association.

School of Information Releases First-of-its-Kind Synchronized Brainwave Research Dataset

Mar 18, 2015

The dataset could help answer whether it’s possible to accurately use consumer-grade devices to interpret attention level in a problem-solving test. The class hopes that other researchers will be able to repeat the experiment with even larger subject pools.

Students’ Finance App Wins $12,000 Prize in People & Money Hackathon

Mar 10, 2015

The students focused on the human side of the challenge: the winning app takes into account the personal and emotional incentives that influence people’s choices, not just the financial incentives.

Xiao Qiang Named to Foreign Policy Magazine’s Pacific Power Index

Jan 27, 2015

Professor Xiao was named to the list for “for taking on China’s Great Firewall of censorship.”

Being the Machine: A Student's Journey to Becoming a Human 3D Printer

Jan 20, 2015

Machines increasingly do humans’ jobs. But what happens when a human performs a machine’s tasks? A new project by doctoral student Laura Devendorf explores that role reversal, with unexpected insights into the creative process how people interact with machines.