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talk: Why and How to Teach Yourself Data Science

Prof. Ergun Simsek, UMBC Data Science program director

In a recent Paws and Pivot online seminar, Dr. Ergun Simsek gave a presentation on "Why and How to Teach Yourself Data Science. Dr. Simsek is a professor in the CSEE department and the Program...

Posted: April 27, 2025, 11:19 AM

Generative AI Unleashed: From Basics to Building 4/26

Free online workshop, 9am-12pm EDT, Sat. April 26, 2025

LinkedIn says that from 2015 to 2030, 70% of the skills used in most jobs will change, with AI emerging as a catalyst. Explore the power of generative AI during this free three-hour virtual...

Posted: April 25, 2025, 3:34 PM

Popular AIs head-to-head: OpenAI beats DeepSeek on sentence-level reasoning

Article by UMBC Prof. Manas Gaur from The Conversation

DeepSeek’s language AI rocked the tech industry, but it comes up short on one measure. Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images Manas Gaur ChatGPT and other...

Posted: April 17, 2025, 4:28 PM

CSEE alumna Dr. Randi Williams to give URCAD 29 keynote 4/16

12-1pm April 16, 2025 in UC 312

CSEE alumna Dr. Randi Williams ’16, B.S., computer engineering, is the keynote speaker for UMBC’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD). She will give the keynote talk from...

Posted: April 6, 2025, 5:49 PM

UMBC receive $3.8M DARPA award to assess the feasibility of scientific claims

A multidisciplinary team led by UMBC COEIT researchers was awarded $3.8M from DARPA's SciFy: Scientific Feasibility program to explore new computational methods for assessing the feasibility of...

Posted: April 4, 2025, 5:35 PM

Workshop: Ethical Leadership in the Age of AI 4/8

3 sessions on Tue., April 8 at 10-11:30, 12-1:30, and 2-3:30

UMBC Campus Life will hold workshops on Ethical Leadership in the Age of AI on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Commons 331. The workshop is aimed at students, but faculty and staff are welcome to...

Posted: March 31, 2025, 9:39 AM

Expanded set of powerful AI tools for the UMBC community

UMBC’s Division of Information Technology announced the expanded availability of powerful AI tools to support the UMBC community in teaching, learning, research, and productivity. All UMBC...

Posted: March 26, 2025, 4:18 PM

Two AI events featuring Virginia Dignum on Wednesday March 5

Well-known AI researcher Virginia Dignum will lead two in-person events on Wednesday, March 5 at UMBC sponsored by the Department of English. Both will take place in room 216 of the Performing...

Posted: March 2, 2025, 6:38 PM

Talk: Do LLMs Exhibit Cybersecurity Misconceptions? 1/31 online

Evaluation of LLMs on CCI and CCA examinations

Do LLMs Show Cybersecurity Misconceptions? Evaluation of LLMs Performance on Cybersecurity Concept Inventories Shan Huang, UIUC Joint work with Jeffrey Herman and Alan Sherman, et al....

Posted: January 29, 2025, 8:55 AM

Prof. Naghmeh Karimi funded to study computing-in-memory AI accelerators

Naghmeh Karimi, an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, was recently granted more than $300,000 in funding from the Semiconductor Research...

Posted: January 21, 2025, 4:27 PM