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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Downtime Complete

To all HPC users, The DoIT Research Computing Team has completed the downtime scheduled for today. Over the course of the downtime, the team was able to accomplish the following: Created...

Posted: September 3, 2025, 8:13 PM

REMINDER: Downtime starting 0800 09/03/2025

Good afternoon all, A reminder to all users, tomorrow (September 3rd) will be our scheduled downtime from 0800 to 1800. During this time, users will not have access to the cluster, and new jobs...

Posted: September 2, 2025, 5:11 PM

Chip Scheduled for Downtime September 3rd

On Wednesday Sept 3rd from 0800-1800 (ET), the chip cluster will be taken offline. During this time, DoIT will be making the following changes: •Changing how chip-gpu's slurm allocations work...

Posted: August 18, 2025, 3:43 PM

June HPCF Newsletter

Hi everyone, I’m writing to give everyone an update regarding the UMBC HPCF, particularly the new Retriever Research Storage System (RRStor). The Research Computing team within DoIT works to...

Posted: June 26, 2025, 1:19 PM

May HPCF Newsletter

Hi everyone, I’m writing to give everyone an update regarding the UMBC HPCF, particularly the new Retriever Research Storage System (RRStor). System Status The chip HPC is operating normally...

Posted: May 19, 2025, 3:06 PM