AI Initiatives

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The Division of Information Technology’s AI site will help the UMBC community with information on using artificial intelligence (AI), especially generative AI (GenAI), to support UMBC’s Administrative, Instructional, and Research efforts. This site has been created to help employees advance their use of GenAI.

We recommend that our UMBC community begin by visiting GenAI Tools, a page that highlights free resources and provides guidance on using GenAI while safeguarding UMBC institutional data safely.

For staff seeking support, we encourage people to look at Administrative AI, as a starting point. Our goal is to save folks time, improve the quality of their work, and increase productivity. We showcase tools that DoIT provides to support these objectives.

We have launched myUMBC Answers, an AI-supported search bar. We are seeking partners to expand this tool. The key to leveraging myUMBC Answers is providing validated and accurate content, such as annual FAQs or handbooks.

Faculty, are encouraged to explore Instructional AI and Research AI. The UMBC Center for AI in the College of Engineering is an excellent resource for AI-related research and innovation.  Stay informed by following the center’s social media channels 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.

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Storage System Performance Update

To all chip users, The DoIT Research Computing & Data (RCD) Team is continuing to work on the storage system performance issues that have been impacting the chip cluster since early February....

Posted: April 10, 2026, 6:35 PM

Storage System Performance Update

To all chip users, The DoIT Research Computing & Data (RCD) Team is continuing to work on the storage system performance issues that have been impacting the chip cluster since early February....

Posted: April 3, 2026, 6:58 PM

REMINDER: RRStor and ada storage maintenance

To all users, A reminder that we are beginning our scheduled downtime for the storage servers for both ada and RRStor. During this time, ada-rstor storage (volumes under /umbc/ada) will be...

Posted: March 31, 2026, 9:24 AM

chip access restored

To all chip users, The RRStor filesystem has been restored. We thank you for you patience while we worked on this issue.  If you notice any further complications, please send an RT ticket to...

Posted: March 30, 2026, 1:57 PM

Unscheduled Downtime

To all chip users, We are currently aware of an issue that is preventing users from logging in and making use of network mounted storage from the RRstor system. We are investigating and will...

Posted: March 30, 2026, 9:50 AM