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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Hilltop Institute Relentlessly Pursues Efficient Workflow

Employs DocuSign as a Versatile Tool

The Hilltop Institute at UMBC conducts health services research on behalf of government agencies, foundations, and nonprofit organizations at the national, state, and local level. For the state of...

Posted: November 19, 2018, 10:10 AM

10-30-2018 9pm Scheduled Downtime for RT

DoIT's Unix Infrastructure group will need to take the RT system down to perform some necessary hardware maintenance. Downtime is expected to minimal, 1 hour or less. Please contact me if you...

Posted: October 30, 2018, 5:49 AM

Campus Card and Mail Services Embraces Efficient Office Tech

How the DCARD Uses DocuSign to Cut Departmental Red Tape

Most businesses and institutions once had a foundation made up entirely of paper processes that tied every memo, report, paycheck, and signature into an elegantly elaborate, if incomprehensibly...

Posted: October 29, 2018, 10:59 AM

P-Card Workflow Now Utilizing Digital Signatures

UMBC Procures Even More Strategic Sources of Efficiency

The UMBC Purchasing Card Program, part of the State of Maryland’s p-card program, allows departments to make small purchases (less than $5,000) quickly and easily. Although the adoption of this...

Posted: October 24, 2018, 9:49 AM

Fall is Here: Time to Cast Off Your Excess Paper and Emails

A Glance at How Student Affairs Spruced Up Their Workflow

Before you start working in an office, it might be hard to believe how much of your workday can be spent sending emails. Even after you’ve gained enough experience to be comfortable drafting...

Posted: October 15, 2018, 9:48 AM