Rick Galeano, an online Ph.D. who live in South Carolina, visited with members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Federation at Alice Drive Middle School in Sumter, South Carolina, on Feb. 1.

UA Little Rock doctoral students mentor middle school gaming club in South Carolina

A husband and wife team, who are both pursuing a Ph.D. in information science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, are mentoring middle school students by sharing their love of games with a science fiction and fantasy club in South Carolina. Continue reading “UA Little Rock doctoral students mentor middle school gaming club in South Carolina”

Social media researchers at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have been recognized with the best paper award at an international conference for their research on the behavioral analysis of digital societies formed on the video-sharing platform YouTube.

UA Little Rock researchers win best paper award for research on YouTube’s digital societies

Social media researchers at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have been recognized with the best paper award at an international conference for their research on the behavioral analysis of digital societies formed on the video-sharing platform YouTube.  Continue reading “UA Little Rock researchers win best paper award for research on YouTube’s digital societies”

UA Little Rock grad is taking the Information Technology world by storm

As a sophomore information science major at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2010, Karen Watts of Bryant faced a difficult choice.  Continue reading “UA Little Rock grad is taking the Information Technology world by storm”

UA Little Rock grad researches validity of patient data found on social networks

A University of Arkansas at Little Rock student who is graduating on Dec. 15 is making it easier for medical researchers to validate patient data found on social networks that can be used to make important decisions about what medical products are advanced for future development. Continue reading “UA Little Rock grad researches validity of patient data found on social networks”

UA Little Rock to host Community Coding Night Dec. 4

CSforAR will partner with UA Little Rock’s STEM Education Center, computer science, and information science departments to host a Community Coding Night Tuesday, Dec. 4, from 5-8 p.m. in the EIT Auditorium in celebration of Computer Science Education Week. Continue reading “UA Little Rock to host Community Coding Night Dec. 4”

Nitin Agarwal. Photo by Lonnie Timmons III/UA Little Rock Communications.

Agarwal elected to Arkansas Academy of Computing

A University of Arkansas at Little Rock information science professor has been inducted as a fellow of the Arkansas Academy of Computing for his contributions to computing in Arkansas.  Continue reading “Agarwal elected to Arkansas Academy of Computing”

UA Little Rock graduate student David Dai is doing research on machine learning. His research involves programing computers to analyze large sets of data. In this image, Dai told the computer to corrupt part of this image of his face. Photo by Ben Krain.

UA Little Rock researchers studying development of benchmarks to test machine learning

Researchers from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock are joining the ranks of technology companies and universities like Google, Intel, Stanford University, and Harvard University to create the next generation benchmark suite for machine learning.  Continue reading “UA Little Rock researchers studying development of benchmarks to test machine learning”