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New project aims to develop a digital health solution for promoting COVID-19 vaccination Patients with compromised health conditions, such as multiple sclerosis, are at enhanced risk of contracting COVID-19. Unfortunately, these patients are also hesitant to take the COVID-19 vaccine because of their condition. A new project, led by Jessie Chin, assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), aims to develop an accessible, general...

Makerere Fund starts open days for colleges May 6, 2021 Written by John Musinguzi Makerere University Research and Innovations Fund (Mak-RIF) has started scheduling and holding open days for each of the university’s colleg...

 E-Mail IMAGE: People who are at enhanced risk of contracting COVID-19 may be hesitant to take the vaccine because of their condition. view more  Credit: Pixabay/geralt Patients with compromised health conditions, such as multiple sclerosis, are at enhanced risk of contracting COVID-19. Unfortunately, these patients are also hesitant to take the COVID-19 vaccine because of their condition. A new project, led by Jessie Chin, assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at ...

The University-wide center will be led by the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Daeun “Dana” Choi, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering and a researcher involved in CAFE, adjusts a drone for monitoring an apple orchard using artificial intelligence. Image: Penn State College of Engineering Penn State launches new artificial intelligence center for engineered systems Sarah Small April 23, 2021 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A newly founded, interdisc...

WPGU 107.1 My name is Meagan and I am from Des Plaines, IL. I am a junior advertising major with a creative writing minor and focus in poetry. I like to dabble in sports journalism and also play on the Illinois Women’s Club Soccer team here on campus. Go Illini! Owen Henderson is a sophomore studying journalism with minors in Spanish and theater, and he comes from southern Illinois: a place notable only for having more corn and fewer people than Champaign-Urbana. When he’s not busy with cla...

A new research center at Penn State, the Center for Artificial Intelligence Foundations and Scientific Applications, or CENSAI, will unite Penn State researchers to explore the use of artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to investigate key steps in the scientific process. CENSAI is part of Penn State’s Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, and it includes faculty from across Penn State. Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences “The emergence of big data and advanc...

Explanations in online symptom checkers could improve user trust Researchers at the College of Information Sciences and Technology recently explored whether including explanations for why an online symptom checker makes certain recommendations could improve user trust in the platforms. Image: Adobe Stock: David Molina Grande Explanations in online symptom checkers could improve user trust Jessica Hallman April 15, 2021 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Have you recently turned to your mobile device or c...

Facebook is providing academic researchers with a massive data haul revealing how political ads during last year’s U.S. elections were targeted to people on the platform. However, researchers have been held up by an arduous process to access the data and worry the information is insufficient to provide meaningful analysis of how Facebook’s ad platform was used —and potentially misused — leading up to the election. “You need to see what’s going on in order to know how to regulate so...

 E-Mail According to Michael Twidale, professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, bad usability can be an irritation for everyone but "especially awful" for the underprivileged. In "Everyone Everywhere: A Distributed and Embedded Paradigm for Usability," which was recently published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Twidale and coauthors David M. Nichols (University of Waikato, New Zealand) an...

His brother, Taulia Tagovailoa, recorded Tua walking across the stage at Coleman Coliseum. Tagovailoa came to Alabama as a 5-star prospect and the nations top-ranked dual-threat quarterback according to 247Sports. He participated in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl, the Rivals100 Five-Star Challenge and was named MVP of the 2016 Elite 11 quarterback competition. As a freshman, Tagovailoa came off the bench in the national championship game against Georgia to bring the Crimson Tide back from a 13...