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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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Student guide to using generative AI systems

Students and many others may find the 2025 Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence helpful in understanding how to use the new generative AI systems more effectively. The guide was developed by...

Posted: May 7, 2025, 9:35 AM

Exploring the Use of GenAI in Formative Assessment of Student Learning

Hybrid "Study Day" Panel, 12-1pm EDT Wednesday, May 14

UMBC’s DoIT and Faculty Development Center will hold a “study day” panel 12-1pm on Wednesday, May 14, to explore how generative AI systems can help students prepare for exams. Three UMBC faculty...

Posted: May 5, 2025, 1:01 PM

Generative AI Unleashed: From Basics to Building

Free online workshop, 9am-12pm EDT, Sat. April 26, 2025

LinkedIn says that from 2015 to 2030, 70% of the skills used in most jobs will change, with AI emerging as a catalyst. Explore the power of generative AI during this free three-hour virtual...

Posted: April 24, 2025, 3:15 PM

Expanded set of AI tools for the UMBC community

UMBC’s Division of Information Technology announced the expanded availability of powerful AI tools to support the UMBC community in teaching, learning, research, and productivity. All UMBC...

Posted: March 27, 2025, 8:19 AM

Tutorial on NeuroSymbolic AI applied to NLP

Material from the AAAI 2025 tutorial

Large Language Models are transforming natural language processing tasks in multiple domains in many ways. Despite their capabilities, their real-world adoption is often limited by issues like the...

Posted: March 21, 2025, 10:18 AM

UMBC adds New AI-Powered Search Bar to myUMBC

Students can get personalized answers to searches

UMBC's Department of Information Technology (DoIT) has been exploring how new generative artificial intelligence systems can make the myUMBC  platform better for students, faculty, and staff, all...

Posted: February 11, 2025, 6:57 PM

Talk: Do LLMs Exhibit Cybersecurity Misconceptions? 1/31 online

Evaluation of LLMs on Cybersecurity Concept Inventories

Do LLMs Show Cybersecurity Misconceptions? Evaluation of LLMs Performance on Cybersecurity Concept Inventories Shan Huang, UIUC Joint work with Jeffrey Herman and Alan Sherman, et al....

Posted: January 28, 2025, 11:53 AM

Benchmarks that have been killed by LLM based systems

Killed by LLM is a project that documents public AI benchmarks that LLM-based AI systems have largely solved since 2018.  Getting killed means that a benchmark no longer measures the frontier of...

Posted: January 7, 2025, 9:18 AM

Google's five-day Generative AI intensive course

Now a free, self-paced learning program at Kaggle

Google's five day Generative AI Intensive Course is now available as a free, self-paced learning program on Kaggle for anyone interested in learning about the fundamental technologies and...

Posted: December 18, 2024, 5:32 PM