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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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Professor Lara Martin an organizer of NLP and Games workshop

A one stop shop for all things interactive narrative + AI

UMBC Professor Lara Martin is one of the organizers of the Wordplay: When Language Meets Games workshop, which will be held at the annual Association of Computational Linguistics conference in...

Posted: April 2, 2024, 7:35 AM

AI, Privacy, & Ethics Symposium: Tim Finin 12-1pm 4/1 WebEx

After 75 Years of AI, Can Machines Think?

Mathematician Alan Turing proposed a simple test to answer the question 'Can machines think?' nearly 75 years ago. Today, the surprising abilities of generative AI systems like ChatGPT make many...

Posted: March 31, 2024, 9:53 PM

Beyond the Code: AI, Ethics & Future of GIS Professionals

AI and Geographic Information Systems

This episode of UMBC's GIS-focused series, Beyond the Code: AI, Ethics, and the Future of GIS Professionals, delves deep into the transformative role of artificial intelligence in the field of...

Posted: March 28, 2024, 9:55 PM

UMBC AOK Library symposia on AI, Privacy, and Ethics

12-1pm ET every Monday in April 2024, online

The UMBC library has organized an online symposium series on AI, Privacy and Ethics that will take place from 12-1 pm ET each Monday in April, 2024. The five sessions are: April 1: "After 75...

Posted: March 27, 2024, 9:53 PM

Talk: Tensor Decomposition for Cybersecurity, 12-1pm ET 3/29

Extracting hidden patterns from cybersecurity datasets

The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Tensor Decomposition Methods for Cybersecurity Maksim E. Eren Los Alamos National Laboratory 12–1pm ET, Friday, March 29, 2024, via WebEx Tensor...

Posted: March 27, 2024, 3:27 PM

AI Lunchbox: generative AI and writing code, 12-1pm ET 3/28

How new AI systems can help software engineers & programmers

The UMBC Training Centers Center for Applied AI LunchBox Series will hold a online session 12-1 pm ET on Thursday, March 28 on using generative AI systems and writing software code. Liam...

Posted: March 27, 2024, 9:27 AM

Professors Mallinson & Janeja on detecting audio deep fakes

Their approach combines people, linguistics, and technology

UMBC professors Christine Mallinson and Vandana Janeja have a new article on the Maryland Matters site for news about Maryland government and politics on Bringing people and technology together to...

Posted: March 25, 2024, 10:15 PM

PhD defense: Khondoker Murad Hossain, 3-5pm ET 3/26

Trojan (Backdoor) Attack Detection in Deep Neural Networks

Khondoker Murad Hossain will defend his Ph.D. dissertation on Tuesday, March 26, 2024 from 3:00-5:00pm ET online. Trojan (Backdoor) Attack Detection in Deep Neural Networks  Khondoker...

Posted: March 25, 2024, 6:29 PM

CSEE faculty Gaur and Raff organize 2024 KDD KIL workshop

Part of the ACM Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

CSEE assistant professor Manas Gaur and CSEE adjunct professor Ed Raff are two of the organizers of the Fourth Workshop on Knowledge-Infused Learning, which will be held in conjunction with the...

Posted: March 24, 2024, 6:30 PM

UMBC CARDS advancing robot communication and cooperation

When two robots are better than one

The UMBC Center for Real-time Distributed Sensing and Autonomy (CARDS) has been working to develop robotic devices that can interact with their environment and each other to plan and accomplish...

Posted: March 23, 2024, 6:25 PM