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AI Lunchbox: Empowering Language Models: Exploring the Capabilities of RAG

12-1 pm EDT, Thursday, September 5, 2024, online

The UMBC Training Centers Center for Applied AI will hold an AI Lunchbox session on Empowering Language Models: Exploring the Capabilities of RAG from 12-1pm EDT on Thursday, September 5, 2024....

Posted: September 2, 2024, 5:50 PM

talk: Cyber4All: Innovating Cybersecurity Education through Design Science and AI

12-1pm EDT Friday, September 11, 2024, online

The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab Cyber4All: Innovating Cybersecurity Education Through Design Science and AI Blair Taylor and Paige Zaleppa, Towson University 12–1pm, Friday, September 6, 2024 via...

Posted: August 29, 2024, 5:32 PM

AI Technical Meetup and Networking event, 5-7pm Thursday, August 29

UMBC Training Centers, Columbia, MD

The UMBC Training Centers will hold an AI Technical Meetup and Networking event from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT on Thursday, August 29, at their facility in Columbia, MD. Speakers Ommo Clark,...

Posted: August 26, 2024, 7:47 PM

NSF funds UMBC faculty to develop tools for data science education

UMBC Professors Lujie Chen (PI) and Shimei Pan (Co-Pi) received an NSF award of over $365,000 from the NSF Innovations in Graduate Education program in collaboration with the University of...

Posted: August 17, 2024, 3:20 PM

Deepfake Detection Technologies Survey

Lunch & Learn talk, 12-1pm ET, Thur. 22 August 2024, online

A Survey of Deepfake Detection Technologies 12-1pm ET Thursday, 22 August 2024, online The Center for Applied AI wIll hold an online Lunch & Learn series talk on Deepfake Detection...

Posted: August 14, 2024, 5:19 PM

Blackboard's Ally now suggests alt text descriptions for images without them

Example of Ally's AI generated image description. Here's an interesting application of new GenAI systems: helping instructors make their course materials more accessible. A best practice for...

Posted: August 13, 2024, 9:24 PM

Hilltop Institute study on predictive healthcare models

New paper in Medical Care journal

A research group from UMBC's Hilltop Institute has a new paper in the Medical Care journal, Behind the Curtain: Comparing Predictive Models Performance in 2 Publicly Insured Populations. ...

Posted: August 6, 2024, 12:38 PM

UMBC faculty receive NSF award for audio deepfake detection

UMBC professors Vandana Janeja, Anita Komlodi, Christine Mallinson, and Sanjay Purushotham received an NSF award to develop a prototype Community Infrastructure to Strengthen AI for Audio Deepfake...

Posted: August 1, 2024, 6:31 PM

Teaching with AI: a New Era of Human Learning

Three one-hour online sessions in Fall 2024

UMBC's Faculty Development Center will hold a series of online discussion sessions on Teaching with AI, based on the book Teaching with AI: (2A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning 024),...

Posted: July 31, 2024, 5:55 PM

AI4ALL Ignite free AI program, apply by August 19, 2024

Starts in September 2024

AI4ALL Ignite offers a virtual, no-costopportunity for undergraduate students in computing and STEM-related majors who are interested in artificial intelligence as a career option. By the end of...

Posted: July 31, 2024, 2:42 PM

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