Technology could capture household information without recording speech.

The papers dealt with issues of accessibility, privacy, and consent in technology.

Embedding coding into high school history class; building eBooks to broaden participation in computing; and rolling out digital tools for collaborative K-5 learning. Michigan researchers are taking on the big challenges to integrating computing into everyone’s education.

This distinction recognizes young researchers with exceptional promise who are having an impact on the world.

From his days as an online poker playing undergrad to his current role as a technology developer, Josh has discovered a passion – and built a platform – for online learning.

The competition recognizes the research done by PhD students at CSE and the final competition is the culmination of a process that narrows a field of entrants to a handful of finalists.

The awards were distributed to 18 different primary investigators.

New real-time employer dashboards provide “live-feed of data” as employees report their symptoms while also safeguarding users’ data privacy.

Computing is a tool for getting things done. Let’s teach it that way.

K-5 teachers and students throughout Michigan are building thriving learning communities online by using free deeply-digital, standards-aligned curricula and platform developed by the U-M Center for Digital Curricula.

“I don’t think any of us expected a global pandemic at the end of our senior year, let alone being able to work on an application that helps address it.”

The web tools will help state officials identify potential hotspots as they reopen Michigan to business.

The project, which received a best paper award, demonstrated that a certain bias in humans who train intelligent agents significantly reduced the effectiveness of the training.

Graphical online simulation could spur more targeted COVID-19 protection measures.

Mower Provost talks about getting awards, doing industry research, understanding human behavior – and Star Wars.

Daily webinars available for teachers interested in exploring the free customizable tools.

The nine students represent a broad range of research areas in the department.

The team of twelve students is one of ten worldwide working to give Amazon’s Alexa more human-like conversational skills.

The authors argue that modern children already think with computation after being shaped by the prolific digital tools that fill their lives

The goal of Lasecki’s proposal is to create methods for making AI systems more robust and flexible.

Guzdial is a leading expert in the field of computing education, and was one of its earliest researchers.

Human-generated responses could remotely assist autonomous vehicles decision’s during times of uncertainty.

The efforts of computing education researcher Mark Guzdial span the challenges facing a young field

PhD student Jean Young Song offers an improved solution to the problem of image segmentation.

The researchers identified movement between industry, academia, and government work, tracked the growth of important organizations, and built predictive models for career transitions and employer retention.

Inspired by a class on managing professional relationships, five recent University of Michigan graduates are developing an app that would mesh with Alexa to help nudge people when they’re out of sync with what they want.

Even though we interact with different web services in different ways, there are clues in the data that can indicate trends and identify a unique profile.

He has answered over 3800 questions on the Q&A site, with over 41 million views.

Prof. Ackerman recognized quite early how social context could harness computing technologies for the development of systems in expertise finding and sharing, as well as in collaborative information access.

With Codeon, developers can request help by speaking their requests aloud within the context of their Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

Kurator is a hybrid intelligence system leveraging mixed-expertise crowds to help families curate their personal digital content, including videos and photos.

Researchers are working to design a successful movie that will attract the interest of a targeted demographic by leveraging user ratings, reviews, and product characteristics.

Researchers have developed a crowd-powered conversational assistant, Chorus, and deployed it to see how users and workers would interact together when mediated by the system.

The identified changes in social media behavior may point to real events and changes, some of which can benefit from intervention.

Lee investigates how we can coordinate collaboration among users and crowd workers, especially for complex tasks that require creativity.

This performance is an outcome coming from his interdisciplinary research work, Live Writing, which transforms asynchronous written communication into a real-time experience in the context of programming, writing and performing arts.

Prof. Emily Mower Provost is collaborating to develop new technologies that provide individuals with insight into how the disease changes over time.

The paper explores how automated speech recognition and crowd-sourced human correction and generation of transcripts can be traded off to improve accuracy and latency.

The proposed work investigates computational methodologies to differentiate emotion perception patterns of healthy controls and individuals with Major Depressive Disorder or Bipolar Disorder.

“I am confident we can do better than the ubiquitous keyboard and mouse paradigm, and I intend to find out how,” said O’Keefe.