News

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.

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

Talk: Securing Networks with Reinforcement Learning & Game Theory

10-11am Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025; ITE459 and online

Securing Distributed Networks: Leveraging Reinforcement Learning and Game Theory for Attack Detection and Mitigation Dr. Md Tariqul Islam, Syracuse University 10-11am January 30, 2025;  ITE 459,...

Posted: January 23, 2025, 10:32 AM

2024 Gartner Hype Cycle for AI

In November 2024, the Gartner company published instances of its popular hype cycles on AI in general and the narrower topic of generative AI. While generative AI is still a dominating technology,...

Posted: January 14, 2025, 6:59 PM

Ramana Vinjamuri co-authors book on embedded systems and robotics

A practical guide for undergraduate and graduate students

Introduction to Embedded Systems and Robotics, A Practical Guide Nayan Kakoty, Rupam Goswami and Ramana Vinjamuri UMBC CSEE professor Ramana Vinjamuri is one of the authors of a new book,...

Posted: January 12, 2025, 6:09 PM

AI in the UMBC Classroom, 12-1 Jan. 15

UMBC Winter Session Beyond the Classroom online series

There's a lot of talk about AI in the classroom, but what do we mean by that? What is the "AI" we are talking about? How and when might we use AI to enhance our teaching and learning while keeping...

Posted: January 10, 2025, 5:17 PM

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

Blackboard Ultra's AI Course Design Assistant Tool, 12-1pm January 8

AI-inspired assessment, question banks, journal, rubrics

Have you wondered how AI technology could transform your course preparation? Blackboard AI Course Design Assistant Tools are available for instructors in Ultra courses. In a 30-minute online quick...

Posted: December 31, 2024, 6:04 PM

World's first chatbot restored on the world's first time-sharing system

Original ELIZA code runs in CTSS emulator on Linux/MacOS

MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum created ELIZA in 1966 partly to demonstrate how easy it was to convince people that a computer was intelligent. His original MAD-SLIP version of ELIZA, usually...

Posted: December 28, 2024, 12:16 PM

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