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.

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

Managing the Uncertainty of the Exponential Technology Age

AI Lunchbox, 12-1pm ET, Thur December 19, 2024 online

Managing Uncertainty of the Exponential Technology Age AI Lunchbox, 12-1pm ET Thursday December 19, 2024, online Artificial Intelligence is a catalyst for breakthroughs in other...

Posted: December 17, 2024, 5:31 PM

CodeBot '25: Can We Trust AI-Generated Code? 2/25-26

Workshop Feb. 25-26, 2025 in Columbia, MD and online

Can We Trust AI-Generated Code? Workshop sponsored by UMBC & Army Research Laboratory Feb. 25-26, 2025 UMBC Training Centers, Columbia, MD & online position paper deadline extended...

Posted: December 7, 2024, 9:36 AM

Talk: The Future with AI: Balancing Opportunity and Inequity, 12/11

12-1pm EST, Wednesday, December 11, 2024, online

The Future with AI: Balancing Opportunity and Inequity Denise Turley, U.S. Chamber of Commerce 12-1pm EST, Wed., December 11, 2024, online In this AI in Practice series session, Dr. Denise...

Posted: December 6, 2024, 9:07 AM

AI Lunchbox: Security Risk in AI/ML, 12/12

12:00-1:00 pm EST, Thursday, December 12, 2024

In the AI Lunchbox session Security Risk in AI/ML, participants will learn about attacks on AI models and how to defend against them. Designed for a general audience, this presentation will teach...

Posted: December 4, 2024, 9:55 AM

Stanford's HAI releases its 7th annual AI Index Report

Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) released its seventh annual AI Index Report, which tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes AI-related data. Get the report...

Posted: December 2, 2024, 10:34 AM

Teaching with AI: two workshops for UMBC faculty and staff, January 23

In person in PAHB 337 on Thursday, January 23, 2024

Dr. José Antonio Bowen will visit UMBC on Thursday, January 23, to lead two in-person workshops for UMBC faculty and staff based on his book Teaching with AI, co-authored with C. Edward Watson,...

Posted: November 26, 2024, 11:19 AM