We use the UMBC group umbc-ai to share news about AI research, events, and opportunities at UMBC. UMBC faculty, staff, and students can join the group to receive email messages. Anyone can view past news on the group or on the AI.UMBC.EDU website. Below are short summaries of recent messages from the UMBC AI Center.
Advancing Social Science Research: Workshops Series on AI, LLMs, and Computational Methods
UMBC's Center for Social Science Scholarship will hold a workshop series this Fall on generative AI, LLMs, and computational social science methods. This series will begin with the basics of...
Posted: September 17, 2025, 5:43 PM
Washington Post Global AI Summit
Online 3-5pm EDT Tuesday, September 23, 2025 (free)
The Washington Post will hold a Global AI Summit in New York and online on Tuesday, September 23, 2025 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm EDT with sponsorship from the University of Maryland. Its goal is to...
Posted: September 14, 2025, 4:50 PM
Research decodes animal decision-making with robotics and medical applications
A team of researchers, including Kathleen Hoffman, professor of mathematics and statistics at UMBC, is blending neuroscience, math, and engineering to decode animal decision-making, with potential...
Posted: September 13, 2025, 4:32 PM
UMBC Department of English adds course on Writing with AI
UMBC’s Department of English has added a new course, ENGL 211 Writing with AI. The course is being taught for the first time this Fall by Dr. Tanya Olsen, a Senior Lecturer and the Director of the...
Posted: September 12, 2025, 5:09 PM
From UMBC to AI Innovation: A Data Science Success Story
Mic’d Up Podcast interview with Harish Reddy Manyam
In this Mic's Up podcast episode, Dennise Cardona interviewsHarish Reddy Manyam, a 2024 graduate of UMBC’s Data Science MPS program. Harish shares his remarkable path from arriving in the U.S....
Posted: September 12, 2025, 11:36 AM
AI and Information Literacy Module
How to use AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Firefly
The first episode in the USM’s AI, Unscripted podcast series is now available. The collection of 30-minute sessions is intended to encourage and support faculty in using AI for teaching and...
Posted: September 8, 2025, 5:32 PM
Fortune article on University Chief AI Officers features UMBC’s Anupam Joshi
Fortune magazine recently published an article on The new thing on campus: Why universities are appointing their first chief AI officers, now known as CAIOs. In describing the trend, the article...
Posted: September 5, 2025, 8:16 AM
Talk: Existing Risks of Generative AI and Surveying Public Perceptions
online 11-12 EDT Fri. Sept 5 by CWIT Alum Wendy Bickersteth
UMBC CWIT alumna Wendy Bickersteth will give an online talk on Existing Risks of Generative AI and Surveying Public Perceptions on Friday, September 5, 2025, from 11am-12pm EDT. She is currently a...
Posted: September 4, 2025, 9:16 AM
Houbing Song webinar: Neuro-Symbolic AI: the Third Wave of AI
online 8am Thursday September 26, 2025
UMBC professor Houbing Song and PhD student Safayat Bin Hakim will give a free online webinar on Neuro-symbolic AI: The Third Wave of AI, at 8:00am EDT on Thursday, 26 September 2025. The webinar...
Posted: September 3, 2025, 9:32 AM
70 years ago today, the term Artificial Intelligence was first introduced
John McCarthy proposed a workshop on AI at Dartmouth
70 years ago, on August 31, 1955, the term Artificial Intelligence was first used in a proposal from John McCarthy entitled A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial...
Posted: August 31, 2025, 2:05 PM
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