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Hany Farid on the Rise of ‘AI Slop’ and Online Pranksters

Researchers have sounded alarms about realistic generative AI images and videos bolstering bad actors to create ever-more ...
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Probing the limits of mobile phone metadata for poverty prediction and impact evaluation

Barriga-Cabanillas, O., Blumenstock, J. E., Lybbert, T. J., & Putman, D. S. (2025). Probing the limits of mobile phone metadata for Poverty Prediction and Impact Evaluation. Journal of Development ...
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Welfare Effects of Digital Credit: A Randomized Evaluation in Nigeria

Digital loans, which provide short-term, high-interest credit via mobile phones, have exploded in popularity across low- and middle-income countries. This paper reports the results of a randomized ...
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The Landscape of College-Level Data Visualization Courses, and the Benefits of Incorporating Statistical Thinking

Branson, Z., Paz Parra, M., & Yurko, R. (2025). The Landscape of College-Level Data Visualization Courses, and the Benefits of Incorporating Statistical Thinking. Journal of Statistics and Data ...
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Agentic Context Engineering: Evolving Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models

Qizheng Zhang, Changran Hu, Shubhangi Upasani, Boyuan Ma, Fenglu Hong, Vamsidhar Kamanuru, Jay Rainton, Chen Wu, Mengmeng Ji, Hanchen Li, Urmish Thakker, James Zou, Kunle Olukotun (2025). Agentic ...
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Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces

The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program educates information professionals to provide leadership for an information-driven world. The Master of Information and Data Science ...
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Deep Learning in the Cloud and at the Edge

The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program educates information professionals to provide leadership for an information-driven world. The Master of Information and Data Science ...
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Information Course Schedule Fall 2018

The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program educates information professionals to provide leadership for an information-driven world. The Master of Information and Data Science ...
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Calibrating Trust in AI-Assisted Decision Making

The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program educates information professionals to provide leadership for an information-driven world. The Master of Information and Data Science ...
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Data Science Course Schedule 266

The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program educates information professionals to provide leadership for an information-driven world. The Master of Information and Data Science ...
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Behind the Data: Humans and Values

The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program educates information professionals to provide leadership for an information-driven world. The Master of Information and Data Science ...