AI Initiatives

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 chnnels 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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Ada Volumes Restored

Hi everyone, Yesterday (October 8th 2025) at around 14:30ET, we experienced an unexpected system downtime. While investigating, we found that the failure stemmed from a failure on the file...

Posted: October 9, 2025, 11:46 AM

Lost Connections 10/08/25

Hi everyone, Today (October 8th 2025) at around 14:30ET, we experienced an unexpected system downtime. While investigating, we found that the failure stemmed from a failure on the file server...

Posted: October 8, 2025, 5:58 PM

September HPCF Newsletter

Hi everyone, I'm writing to give everyone an update regarding the UMBC HPCF and other Research Computing projects currently undertaken by DoIT. Summary Office hours! We have them! They are...

Posted: September 30, 2025, 1:43 PM

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