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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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Enhancing Student Engagement with AI Conversations in Blackboard Ultra

12-1pm EDT Friday, September 20, 2024; online

Enhancing Student Engagement with AI Conversations in Blackboard Ultra 12-1pm EDT Friday, September 20, 2024; online Join Dr. Mariann Hawken, director of UMBC's Instructional Technology, and...

Posted: September 17, 2024, 5:34 PM

Talk: Using AI to Create, Assess and Align Multiple Choice Questions, 10/3

12-1pm EDT, Thur., Oct. 3, 2024, Engineering 102 & online

Using AI to Create, Assess and Align Multiple Choice Questions Can AI help align assessments to Bloom's Taxonomy? 12-1pm EDT, Thur., Oct. 3, 2024, Engineering 102 & online In this...

Posted: September 16, 2024, 11:22 AM

AI in Practice: 1st in Webinar Speaker Series, 12-1pm ET Wed. Sept. 11

2nd Wednesday each month this Fall starting September 11

Learn how generative AI can enhance teaching and learning in higher education in the free AI in Practice Webinar Series, a collaborative initiative of the University of Baltimore, JHU, and UMBC....

Posted: September 8, 2024, 6:06 PM

talk: AI Resilient Interfaces for Code Generation and Efficient Reading, Dr. Jonathan Kummerfeld

3-4pm EDT, Tue. 10 Sept. 2024, ITE 325b at UMBC & online

The UMBC Language Technology Seminar Series (LaTeSS – pronounced lattice) showcases talks from experts researching various language technologies, including but not limited to natural language...

Posted: September 7, 2024, 12:03 PM

UMBC PhD student Ommo Clark featured in VoA Realities of Women in AI episode

The VoA Africa’s Our Voices program on the Realities of Women in Artificial Intelligence includes a seven-minute interview with Ommo Clark. Clark is a second-year PhD candidate in Information...

Posted: September 6, 2024, 6:25 PM

AI Lunchbox: Empowering Language Models: Exploring the Capabilities of RAG

12-1 pm EDT, Thursday, September 5, 2024, online

The UMBC Training Centers Center for Applied AI will hold an AI Lunchbox session on Empowering Language Models: Exploring the Capabilities of RAG from 12-1pm EDT on Thursday, September 5, 2024....

Posted: September 2, 2024, 5:50 PM

talk: Cyber4All: Innovating Cybersecurity Education through Design Science and AI

12-1pm EDT Friday, September 11, 2024, online

The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab Cyber4All: Innovating Cybersecurity Education Through Design Science and AI Blair Taylor and Paige Zaleppa, Towson University 12–1pm, Friday, September 6, 2024 via...

Posted: August 29, 2024, 5:32 PM

AI Technical Meetup and Networking event, 5-7pm Thursday, August 29

UMBC Training Centers, Columbia, MD

The UMBC Training Centers will hold an AI Technical Meetup and Networking event from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT on Thursday, August 29, at their facility in Columbia, MD. Speakers Ommo Clark,...

Posted: August 26, 2024, 7:47 PM

NSF funds UMBC faculty to develop tools for data science education

UMBC Professors Lujie Chen (PI) and Shimei Pan (Co-Pi) received an NSF award of over $365,000 from the NSF Innovations in Graduate Education program in collaboration with the University of...

Posted: August 17, 2024, 3:20 PM

Deepfake Detection Technologies Survey

Lunch & Learn talk, 12-1pm ET, Thur. 22 August 2024, online

A Survey of Deepfake Detection Technologies 12-1pm ET Thursday, 22 August 2024, online The Center for Applied AI wIll hold an online Lunch & Learn series talk on Deepfake Detection...

Posted: August 14, 2024, 5:19 PM

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