With the deployment of personal smart health technology, new digital tools are now within reach of people around the globe. From smart watches that monitor heart rate to Bluetooth enabled pulse oximeters, individuals can now …
Year: 2020
Covid-19 resources for Graduate Students
iSchool Resources & Services The Faculty and Staff at the iSchool know that this is a difficult time for many of you. We’re here to support you. iSchool Library Teatimes Connect and catch up with …
New Information Master’s Program Prepares Students for Careers in Tech and Information
For the first time ever, the Information School (iSchool) at UW-Madison is accepting applications for a newly launched Master of Science Information degree. The degree complements the iSchool’s long standing Masters of Arts degree in …
New Faculty Profile: Dr. Jacob Thebault-Spieker
Dr. Jacob Thebault-Spieker earned both a BA and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. His research interests focus on bias, social computing, crowd work, and the shared economy. Dr. Thebault-Spieker’s work will …
Guest Lecture: Hybrid Scientific Relation Extraction for Scholarly Knowledge Organization
Speaker: Ming Jiang, PhD student at the Illinois Informatics Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Time: Thursday, Nov 19 at 3 p.m. CST Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98435362731?pwd=T0xVem1mT1RnbWZzWmNaQ0s5dU1iUT09 The rapid growth of scientific articles has made digital libraries (DL) …
New Faculty Profile: Dr. Chaoqun Ni
Dr. Chaoqun Ni brings her expertise in information technology and science policy to the iSchool. She’s excited to continue her research in scholarly competition and gender disparities within scientific fields at the iSchool, particularly under …
Guest lecture: Language and Justice: Examining the Social Implications of Language Technologies
Language and Justice: Examining the Social Implications of Language Technologies Guest Speaker: Su Lin Blodgett, Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research Montréal Date/Time: Thursday, Nov 12 at 2 p.m., Central Time Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97748479865?pwd=amxrY1g0Y09wOUdHb29zUmZqb3ZoZz09 Natural language processing (NLP) …
Guest Lecture: Towards Explainable Information Retrieval Models for Professional Search Tasks
Towards Explainable Information Retrieval Models for Professional Search Tasks Guest Speaker: Yue Wang, Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, School of Information and Library Science Date/Time: Nov 17 at 3 p.m., Central Time …
New Faculty Profile: Dr. Jiepu Jiang
Jiepu Jiang comes to the iSchool with and MS in Information Science from Wuhan University and a PhD n Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh. His research aims at understanding, evaluating, and …
Corey Jackson wins awards for best paper
Corey B. Jackson, the Anna Julia Cooper Postdoctoral Fellow at the iSchool, won an Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Award as part of the 2020 CSCW conference (Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social …