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, this page will highlight what free resources are available to use and what options exist to use GenAI while safeguarding UMBC institutional data safely.

For staff providing support, we encourage people to look at Administrative AI, as a starting point. Our goal is to save folks time and improve the quality of their work, thus increasing productivity. We highlight some tools that DoIT is providing for support.

Additionally, we have launched an AI-supported search bar called myUMBC Answers.  We are seeking partners to work with DoIT to expand myUMBC Answers. The key to your office leveraging myUMBC Answers is providing 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. An excellent resource in the College of Engineering is the UMBC 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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Account data breach: Drizly

Credentials Breach Report

In July 2020, an online alcohol delivery service, Drizly, suffered a data breach. This breach contained 2.5 million customers data that was sold online, and then posted on a hacking forum. The...

Posted: August 24, 2020, 12:27 PM

Account Data Breach: Havenly

Credentials Breach Report

In June 2020, Havenly, an interior design website, suffered a data breach. Approximately 1.4 million members' personal information was exposed. This data includes names, email, phone numbers,...

Posted: August 24, 2020, 12:25 PM

Account Data Breach: Promo

Credentials Breach Report

In June 2020, a marketing video creator website, Promo, suffered a data breach. 22 million users' personal information was leaked on an online hacking forum. This data includes names, email,...

Posted: August 24, 2020, 12:24 PM

Account Data breach: ProctorU

Credentials Breach Report

In June 2020, ProctorU, an online examination service, suffered a data breach. Over 444K user records were exposed and posted to an online hacking community. These records contain names, emails,...

Posted: August 24, 2020, 12:21 PM

Microsoft SharePoint Phishing Scam

A Scam Targeting Microsoft SharePoint Users

Malicious actors are using Covid-19 and current economic conditions to exploit victims with new phishing scams. The article linked below talks about two similar phishing scams. One scam claims to...

Posted: August 24, 2020, 12:20 PM