AI Initiatives

The DoIT AI site is here to help the community with information on using artificial intelligence (AI), especially generative AI (GenAI), to support UMBC’s Administrative, Instructional, and Research efforts. This site is designed to support employees looking to advance their use of GenAI. We recommend that our UMBC community start by visiting GenAI Tools, this page will highlight what free resources are available to use and what options exist to safely use GenAI while safeguarding UMBC institutional data.

For staff providing support, we encourage people to look at Administrative AI, as a starting point. Our goal is to save people time and hopefully improve the quality of their work, thus increasing productivity. We highlight some tools that DoIT is providing for support and we are seeking partners to work with DoIT on expanding myUMBC Answers. The real key to your office leveraging myUMBC Answers is to be able to provide validated and accurate content, such as FAQs or a handbook produced annually.

For faculty, we encourage you to also explore instructional AI and research AI. A wonderful resource in the College of Engineering Center for AI.  You can follow news about the UMBC Center for AI on social media through its sites on LinkedIn, BlueskyX, and Facebook.Members of the UMBC community can subscribe to the UMBC AI Group to receive email about AI-related news and events.  If you have news to share with the UMBC AI community or suggestions or comments on the site, please send them to umbc-ai@cs.umbc.edu.

 

AI News

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System Patching Thursday December 22nd starting at 5:00pm

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Thursday, December 22nd from 5pm to 11pm.  While many systems will...

Posted: December 20, 2016, 11:17 AM

New Critical Linux Vulnerability Effects Most Systems

A new vulnerability dubbed DirtyCow should be patched asap

I'm not going to pretend I understand the naming for this bug, but this new vulnerability is very serious, one of the most serious in years, and should be addressed immediately.  This exploit,...

Posted: October 27, 2016, 12:48 PM

Downtime Saturday 2/20 at 9:00am for myUMBC, Sites and Wiki

We will taking downtime this Saturday morning at 9:00am for MyUMBC, our sites and wiki web environment starting at 9am. We expect each system to be down for a few minutes, and all work should be...

Posted: February 19, 2016, 11:26 AM