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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.

Fortune article on University Chief AI Officers features UMBC’s Anupam Joshi

Fortune magazine recently published an article on The new thing on campus: Why universities are appointing their first chief AI officers, now known as CAIOs. In describing the trend, the article...

Posted: September 5, 2025, 8:16 AM

Talk: Existing Risks of Generative AI and Surveying Public Perceptions

online 11-12 EDT Fri. Sept 5 by CWIT Alum Wendy Bickersteth

UMBC CWIT alumna Wendy Bickersteth will give an online talk on Existing Risks of Generative AI and Surveying Public Perceptions on Friday, September 5, 2025, from 11am-12pm EDT. She is currently a...

Posted: September 4, 2025, 9:16 AM

Houbing Song webinar: Neuro-Symbolic AI: the Third Wave of AI

online 8am Thursday September 26, 2025

UMBC professor Houbing Song and PhD student Safayat Bin Hakim will give a free online webinar on Neuro-symbolic AI: The Third Wave of AI, at 8:00am EDT on Thursday, 26 September 2025. The webinar...

Posted: September 3, 2025, 9:32 AM

UMBC professor Houbing Song to give webinar on neuro-symbolic AI

70 years ago today, the term Artificial Intelligence was first introduced

John McCarthy proposed a workshop on AI at Dartmouth

70 years ago, on August 31, 1955, the term Artificial Intelligence was first used in a proposal from John McCarthy entitled A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial...

Posted: August 31, 2025, 2:05 PM

Photgraph of some of the participants of the 1956 Dartmouth summer AI workshop. (back row, from left) Oliver Selfridge, Nathaniel Rochester, Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy, and (front row, from left) Ray Solomonoff, Pete Milner and Claude Shannon.

AI, Unscripted: podcasts on AI for Teaching and Learning

New 30 minute podcast released every two weeks this Fall

The AI, Unscripted podcast series guides faculty from curiosity to confidence in using artificial intelligence for teaching and learning. This nine-episode limited series from the UMB's Moving the...

Posted: August 26, 2025, 6:29 PM

Baltimore Business Journal article on UMBC and AI

Part of a series on how AI is upending the business world

The Baltimore Business Journal published an article, Slowly Beginning to Adapt, on how UMBC is is adjusting to the latest generative AI systems. The piece is part of the BBJ's AI Meets Main...

Posted: August 25, 2025, 10:03 AM

Can AI make Hitler cry?

UMBC professor Aharona Rosenthal has a new paper, Can AI make Hitler cry?, exploring the use of AI in Holocaust education across four generations in Spinger’s AI and Ethics journal. The paper...

Posted: August 18, 2025, 10:36 AM

People use the Internet to diagnose themselves—Can this UMBC student’s work help moderate medical content on the web?

In 2024, information systems Ph.D. student Ommo Clark penned an opinion piece for BusinessDay Nigeria exploring why many Nigerians diagnose and treat their medical conditions themselves, often...

Posted: August 17, 2025, 5:22 PM

Healthcare working holding a Google input device.

UMBC Library 2025 AI Symposia

Online 12-1pm EST on seven Mondays starting on Oct 1

UMBC’s Library will hold a weekly series of seven online AI seminars from 12-1 pm EST on Wednesdays starting on October 1, 2025, on the theme Exploring the Gadgets & Gizmos in Your AI Toolkit....

Posted: August 15, 2025, 10:17 AM

From Capstone to AI Startup: How Two UMBC Grads Are Transforming EdTech

UMBC’s Dennise Cardona interviewed Sai Manvitha Nadella, M.P.S. ’25, and Sampath Kumar, M.P.S. ’25, co-founders of AIEdumate and graduates of UMBC’s Data Science Program. AI-Edumate is an...

Posted: August 1, 2025, 10:50 AM