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, 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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Status of Taki and update on reported issues

Earlier this week we upgraded slurm (our scheduling software) to try and fix several bugs that had been identified over the past few weeks through working with our support vendor. This upgrade...

Posted: August 22, 2019, 8:37 PM

Import Panopto News

Downtime (6/22) and Mandatory Client Upgrade (7/18)

There are two important upcoming dates and a product update: June 22, 2019: Panopto Cloud Downtime On Saturday, June 22, Panopto Cloud customers will be upgraded to Panopto 7.0. This upgrade...

Posted: April 26, 2019, 12:06 PM

UMBC FAQ Knowledge Base Limited to Campus Use Only

Due to a recently published set of security vulnerabilities, UMBC’s Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) website at umbc.edu/faq  is no longer accessible outside of UMBC. DoIT is going to keep this...

Posted: April 15, 2019, 5:22 PM

Panopto Cloud Scheduled Downtime

Site Maintenance December 15, 7:00-11:00 PM

On December 15, Panopto Cloud customers will be upgraded to Panopto 6.0. This upgrade will require downtime: Site maintenance will begin at 7:00pm EST We expect up to 4 hours of downtime...

Posted: November 30, 2018, 11:15 AM