News – ai.umbc.edu

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.

Teaching with AI Book Discussion: Part 3: Learning with AI

12-1 pm ET Wednesday, November 13, 2024, online

The UMBC Faculty Development Center's third and final session on the book Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning will cover “Learning with AI", which discusses how we...

Posted: November 6, 2024, 5:49 PM

AI in Practice: How Faculty and Entrepreneurs Are Actually Using Generative AI

12-1 pm EST, Wednesday, November 13, 2024, online

The next online session of the AI in Practice series will be "How Faculty and Entrepreneurs Are Actually Using Generative AI: “Use Case” Lightning Round" on 12-1 pm EST, Wednesday, November 13,...

Posted: November 4, 2024, 6:18 PM

Google's NotebookLM speaks for itself, 12 pm Thur. Nov 7, online

AI engineers and UMBC alumni Devon Slonaker and Siddhant Gupta discuss and demonstrate Google's NotebookLM research and note-taking tool developed by Google Labs. Its new Audio Overviews feature...

Posted: October 31, 2024, 2:19 PM

Talk: Improving Shared Embodiment between Humans and Robots with Haptics

12-1 pm EDT, October 30, ITE 459, UMBC

UMBC WISS Series Improving Shared Embodiment between Humans and Robots with Haptics Janelle Clark, Mechanical Engineering, UMBC 12-1pm EDT, Oct. 30, ITE 459 and online Lunch will be...

Posted: October 29, 2024, 1:10 PM

Talk: FT-PrivacyScore: Personalized Privacy Scoring for Machine Learning Participation

1-2 pm EDT Friday, November 1, 2024, online

UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents FT-PrivacyScore: Personalized Privacy Scoring for Machine Learning Participation Dr. Keke Chen, UMBC 1-2 pm EDT Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, online Joint...

Posted: October 28, 2024, 11:23 AM

Teaching with AI, book discussion 12-1 pm Wednesday, Oct. 30, online

Learn how AI can support educators & impacts grading

UMBC's Faculty Development Center will hold the second online discussion session on Teaching with AI on Wednesday, October 30 from 12-1 based on the book Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a...

Posted: October 26, 2024, 6:35 PM

PhD student position for research project on evaluating scientific claims

The UMBC AI and Theory-Oriented Molecular Science Lab (ATOMS) led by Professor Tyler Josephson in the Department of Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering. has two fully-funded...

Posted: October 25, 2024, 11:42 AM

UMBC students sought for LLM hallucination research project

Available to both undergraduate and graduate students

UMBC students studying Information Systems, Computer Science or Human-centered Computing are invited to join a research project exploring how users with different characteristics engage with Large...

Posted: October 24, 2024, 2:49 PM

Talk: ML Reproducibility: Sources of Algorithmic, Implementation & Observational Variability, 10/29

4-5pm EDT Tuesday, October 29, 2024, online

ML Reproducibility: Sources of Algorithmic, Implementation, and Observational Variability Kevin Coakley, UC San Diego 4-5pm EDT Tue., 29 Oct. 2024, online Reproducibility is fundamental to...

Posted: October 23, 2024, 9:40 AM

Talk: Cyborg Meets AI: Technologized Disabled People in the Context of Corporatized Technological Development and Health Management

4-5:30 pm EDT, Tuesday, October 22, 2024, online

Cyborg Meets AI: Technologized Disabled People in the Context of Corporatized Technological Development and Health Management Ashley Shew, Virginia Tech 4-5:30 pm EDT, Tue., Oct. 22, 2024,...

Posted: October 20, 2024, 11:08 AM