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UMBC Training Centers and AFCEA Central MD Chapter will provide a condensed 2-hour free version of UMBC Training Centers AI Essentials survey for relative newcomers to AI, delivered through a blend of lectures and live demonstrations.
5-7:30 pm in person in Columbia, MD. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Alexander Martin talks in person at UMBC & online on "Wikipedia from the World: Grounded Articles from Any Source", 4-5:15 pm EST, Mon., Nov. 24. He will cover both retrieval of relevant multimodal evidence and generating coherent, verifiable, Wikipedia-style articles. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC CBEE professor Tyler Josephson was selected as a 2025 Pivot Fellow by the Simons Foundation. He leads the AI & Theory-Oriented Molecular Science Lab (ATOMS), which develops computational methods for molecular simulation and automated discovery of scientific theories. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Generative AI in Teaching II: Applied Skills and Use Cases 11:30-12:30 EST Tue., Nov. 11, Public Policy 204 and online Building on the first session in the series of Generative AI and Teaching, this interactive session highlights applied skills and practical ...

UMBC's John Schumacher on Generative AI in Teaching II: Applied Skills and Use Cases at 11:30-12:30 EST Tue., Nov. 11, Public Policy 204 and online. Learn effective prompting, discipline-specific scenarios, assignment strategies, and advanced teaching features. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC's Institute of Politics released results from a poll of 810 Maryland adults on their "Attitudes toward artificial intelligence". Nearly all said they were aware of AI and had some concerns. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

AI is reshaping industries, workflows, and the skills that matter most. The future belongs not to machines, but to humans who adapt alongside them. Learn what skills can't be automated, how to future-proof your career through learning & how to use AI as a partner rather than a threat. bit.ly/AIwOrK

Dr. Eric Stokan, director of UMBC's Center for Social Science Scholarship, discusses methods for processing and handling unstructured data like text & images. It will take place in person in room 438 in UMBC's Public Policy building from 12-1:30 pm on Friday, Nov. 7. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

GenAI systems like ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini are transforming how we work, communicate & create, but also pose serious privacy concerns. While GenAI can compromise our privacy, it can also be harnessed to help protect it. Roberto Yus explores both sides of that paradox in this talk. bit.ly/4hBMsqN

UMBC's Prof. Yasmine Kotturi's selection as a Trustworthy AI Fellow featured in a Computing Research Association article UMBC professor Yasmine Kotturi's selection as a CRA Trustworthy AI Fellow was featured on the Computing Research Association site this month. The fellowship is intended to help scholars shape framewor...

UMBC professor Yasmine Kotturi's selection as a CRA Trustworthy AI Fellow is featured on the CRA site. The fellowship will help scholars shape frameworks for more trustworthy AI systems through structured interdisciplinary training, collaborative research, and visibility. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

@umbc-ai.bsky.social Shawn Bender from Dickinson College talks on 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 at UMBC, 4-5:30pm Thur., Nov. 6, addressing the potential of robotics to assist in the care of older adults and people with disabilities and how it will drive innovation. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Dr. Reetam Majumder of the Univ. of Arkansas leads a short course on AI for Statistical Analysis, 2:00-5:00 pm Fri., Oct. 31, 2025, in room 104 of UMBC's Math & Psychology building. It will give a hands-on introduction to deep learning models using the Keras package in R. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Prof. Mohammad Mohammadisiahroudi from UMBC's Math/Stat Department talks on Applications of Quantum Computing and Optimization in Cybersecurity, 12–1pm, Friday, Oct. 17, 2025, online via Webex. cybersecurity.umbc.edu/home/news/po...

Nina-Simone Edwards, JD, from the Georgetown University Institute for Technology Law and Policy, will address ethical issues in AI policy for libraries and higher education in an online Webex session, 12-1pm EDT on Wednesday, October 15, 2025. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Federal Shutdown Deals Blow To Already Hobbled Cybersecurity Agency - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County Richard Forno of UMBC explains how the federal shutdown is impacting U.S. cybersecurity.

UMBC's Dr. Richard Forno published an article in The Conversation on the impacts of the US federal government shutdown on cybersecurity, especially on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation’s leading civilian cybersecurity agency. umbc.edu/stories/fede...

Bryan Li (UPenn) on how LLMs handle knowledge-intensive tasks, given uneven coverage and differing perspectives on knowledge across multiple languages, by examining their internal parametric information and use of external contextual knowledge. 2-3 pm Tue Oct 14, 2025, ITE 325b, UMBC bit.ly/3KEEnW4

This first session of the UMBC series on 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 introduces the basics of generative AI and its implications for teaching and learning. Faculty will see short demos of ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity plus time for Q&A. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15... What AI skills do employers actually want from new graduates? This session explores the real-world competencies that drive today's hiring decisions. Dean Merritt (Mindgrub) and Dr. Karolyn Babalola (Booz Allen Hamilton) share insights. 12-1 pm EDT Wed., Oct. 8. via Zoom.

ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15... In this podcast episode, 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲: 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀, UMBC undergrad CS major Adam Baji is interviewed about his interests in the intersection of AI, machine learning, and cybersecurity.

UMBC's Mariann Hawken gives an online overview of Google's Gemini systems from 12-1 pm EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 1. She'll cover how Gemini's tools support research discovery, instructional planning, AI-enhanced learning activities, and more. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

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UMBC will host GRIT-X talks as part of its Homecoming events from 4-6pm Thursday, Oct. 9. One speaker is CSEE alumna Gargi Banerjee Dasgupta (PhD, CS 2003). Her talk is titled "The Future is Here Already – AI Agents for Enterprise Productivity." ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC Department of English adds course on Writing with AI UMBC’s Department of English has added a new course, ENGL 211 Writing with AI. The course is being taught for the first time this Fall by Dr. Tanya Olsen, a Senior Lecturer and the Director of the...

UMBC’s Department of English added a new course, 𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗟 𝟮𝟭𝟭 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗜, this Fall, taught by Dr. Tanya Olson, the Director of the Department's Writing and Rhetoric Division.
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The first episode of the 𝗔𝗜, 𝗨𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗱 podcast series is up. UMD librarian Benjamin Shaw discusses an online module on 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 to help students use AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Firefly. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

70 years ago today, the term Artificial Intelligence was first introduced John McCarthy proposed a workshop on AI at Dartmouth 70 years ago, on August 31, 1955, the term Artificial Intelligence was first used in a proposal from John McCarthy entitled A Proposal for the Dart...

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70 years ago today, on August 31, 1955, the term 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 was first used in a proposal by John McCarthy entitled 𝗔 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. Held in 1956, it is considered a founding event of the field.

UMBC received a new $1M NSF grant for its SFS Cybersecurity Scholarship program directed by profs. Alan Sherman & Roberto Yus. The award will support 5 new undergrad or grad computing majors. In return, they will work at a government agency for part of each year. www.csee.umbc.edu/recent-news/...

Security Standardisation Research (SSR) Conference 2026 The Security Standardisation Research (SSR) Conference 2026 is the 10th iteration of the SSR conference series, launched in 2014. SSR 2026 will be held December 13–15, 2026, in Baltimore, MD, USA, hos...

UMBC will host the 2026 Security Standardisation Research Conference (SSR) on December 13-15 in Baltimore. It will cover research in existing standards, revisions, and new areas, such as post-quantum cryptography, fully homomorphic encryption, 6G wireless communication, and AI. ssresearch26.umbc.edu

ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15... UMBC professor Yasmine Kotturi was selected in the CRA’s new Trustworthy AI Research fellowship program sponsored by Microsoft. It supports researchers working to integrate ethical, societal, and human-centered considerations into the development of AI.

A video clip from UMBC’s Center for Real-time Distributed Sensing and Autonomy shows how well the HoloLens spatial mapping and augmented reality interface combine with a Spot robot’s navigation system to understand its environment and follow a person. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

An AI-supported dataset released by a UMBC project led by GES Prof. Matt Baker more than doubles the documented stream miles in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The AI mapping method reduced costs, time, and labor, making it easy to update or apply in other watersheds. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Rodney Brooks shared an article he wrote in 1988 on AI hype cycles, that included "In 1962, a distinguished Stanford professor predicted that computer programming would be obsolete by 1963 because, by then, users would simply converse in English with the front-end neural networks." bit.ly/88aiHy

Grok’s ‘white Genocide’ Responses Show How Generative AI Can Be Weaponized UMBC information systems faculty James Foulds, Phil Feldman, and Shimei Pan, explain how recent behavior of the AI chatbot Grok shows how AI can be weaponized to producing misleading or ideologically ...

UMBC faculty James Foulds, Phil Feldman & Shimei Pan have a article on the recent problem where xAI’s Grok chatbot was compromised to mention white genocide in South Africa when responding to unrelated queries. They explain how it was done and how to prevent it in the future. bit.ly/40bBNLV