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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Unscheduled Downtime of taki cluster: Resume Operation

To all taki users, Starting at around 0345 this morning, portions of the taki cluster environment became unresponsive. System administrators have been able to bring the cluster back online....

Posted: October 24, 2023, 12:30 PM

Scheduled Downtime of taki Completed*

*Mostly!

To all taki users, The taki downtime scheduled for today from 0800-1700 has completed a little behind schedule. We have updated the workload manager, SLURM, from major version 19 to major...

Posted: September 13, 2023, 7:09 PM

Reminder: taki Downtime Weds 9/13

To all taki users: System Administrators will be taking the taki cluster environment offline Wednesday September 13 from 0800-1700. This is to upgrade the workload management software, SLURM....

Posted: September 12, 2023, 9:10 AM

Scheduled Downtime of taki Cluster Completed

To all taki users, The taki downtime scheduled for today from 0800-1700 has completed. We have updated the operating system and cluster management software stack. We have run some small jobs...

Posted: August 22, 2023, 5:57 PM