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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.


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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

Global AI Summit

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

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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

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

Wendy Bickersteth give talk.

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

UMBC professor Houbing Song to give webinar on neuro-symbolic AI

AI, Unscripted: podcasts on AI for Teaching and Learning

New 30 minute podcast released every two weeks this Fall

The AI, Unscripted podcast series guides faculty from curiosity to confidence in using artificial intelligence for teaching and learning. This nine-episode limited series from the UMB's Moving the...

Posted: August 26, 2025, 6:29 PM

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