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, Bluesky, X, 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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October 27th chip and RRStor Downtime Completed

To all chip users, The downtime for the chip cluster scheduled for October 27th has been completed, and the cluster is now back online and accessible. We appreciate your patience while we...

Posted: October 27, 2026, 6:02 PM

Sept 2026 HPCF Newsletter

Happy end of September everyone, I'm writing to give everyone an update regarding the UMBC HPCF and other Research Computing projects currently undertaken by DoIT during the month of September....

Posted: September 30, 2026, 4:19 PM

RRStor File System Issue Resolved

Hi all, Regarding this recent post, the issue that developed on our main file system server in RRStor has been resolved. We are working with our support vendor to understand the details, and an...

Posted: September 30, 2026, 10:18 AM

RRStor File System Slow

Users may see slow logins and extended workflow runtimes

Hi all, We are currently seeing problems with our main file system server in RRStor. The issue started around 0915ET this morning and is currently resulting in slow file system accesses across...

Posted: September 30, 2026, 9:37 AM