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Repost: Announcing the 2025 AI Symposium

Join us for our virtual series this fall!

The original post can be found on myumbc at Announcing the 2025 AI Symposium! On the heels of the successful “AI, Privacy, and Ethics Symposium” of April 2024, we’re back with a new iteration!...

Posted: September 8, 2025, 1:18 PM

Decorative flyer of the AI symposium

First time login since downtime interruptions

To all HPC users, We wanted to remind all users that the change to redundant login nodes may cause some one-time issues for returning users to the chip HPC. Due to the additional login...

Posted: September 4, 2025, 9:53 AM

Fix This Fast! How to Use Ally to Instantly Improve Your Course

Use Ally to find and fix course issues in minutes

Need to boost your course accessibility but short on time? Blackboard’s Ally tool is built right into your course and gives you instant feedback on how to improve content for all students —...

Posted: September 4, 2025, 8:05 AM

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Downtime Complete

To all HPC users, The DoIT Research Computing Team has completed the downtime scheduled for today. Over the course of the downtime, the team was able to accomplish the following: Created...

Posted: September 3, 2025, 8:13 PM