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, 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.

 

AI News

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Important Notice: Google Quotas Established

Unlimited Storage is Going Away

The UMBC Division of Information Technology team is taking key steps to continue providing secure accounts and workspaces and ensure your information is protected. Several cloud service providers...

Posted: September 18, 2024, 9:34 AM

DoIT Receives NSF Grant for Campus Cyber Infrastructure

System supports research in analyzing polar ice caps & more!

Broadening UMBCs Data Storage footprint to Advance Scientific Research and Discovery Purpose: The Retriever Research Storage System, R-RSTOR, will enable UMBC researchers to address important...

Posted: September 12, 2024, 2:22 PM

Upgrades to Residence Hall Wireless

Faster Wi-Fi and 2,500+ access points

The Residential Life office (RL) and the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) have partnered to implement a brand-new wireless system for on-campus residents.  Providing technology...

Posted: September 11, 2024, 11:35 AM

Campus Phone Upgrades

All departmental phones have been converted!

The Division of Information Technology is excited to announce that it has completed the migration of all main campus phones to our new phone system. Beginning in 2020, the project was accelerated...

Posted: September 9, 2024, 3:43 PM

Upgrades to Residence Hall Wireless

New Wireless Access Points this Summer!

In partnership with the Office of Residential Life, DoIT will implement a completely new wireless system throughout all residential dorms and apartment complexes this Summer.   Over the past...

Posted: June 17, 2024, 9:40 AM