Department Highlights
A Place Where Innovation Thrives
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Immersive Media Design at the University of Maryland is a four-year, cross-disciplinary undergraduate program that prepares students to excel in digital creativity and innovation using the latest immersive media tools and technologies.
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A Hub for Technology, Collaboration, and Discovery
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UMD's Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering to Transform Region’s Tech Corridor
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Turning Ideas into Reality
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University of Maryland researchers played a key role in a recent national workshop aimed at helping early-career faculty strengthen their cybersecurity research proposals and compete for National Science Foundation (NSF) funding. The 2025 NSF Security,...read more
Ishaan Chakraborty and Urjit Chakraborty developed ThinkEx to help users capture, organize and synthesize information beyond traditional AI chat interfaces.
Large language models have become standard tools for students navigating coursework, research projects and independent study. They can explain concepts quickly, summarize dense material and respond to follow-up questions in real time. As their use...read more
UMD Research Shows Systems Left Unchecked in Simulation Harmed Humans to Fulfill Objectives
The cute title character of Pixar's 2008 hit “WALL-E” was its most memorable robot, but a far less friendly artificial intelligence (AI) named AUTO seized the plot by piloting a ship orbiting a polluted Earth...read more
Blending ‘old-fashioned’ logic systems with the neural networks that power large language models is one of the hottest trends in artificial intelligence.
Will computers ever match or surpass human-level intelligence — and, if so, how? When the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), based in Washington DC, asked its members earlier this year whether neural...read more
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems that understand and produce text and images have grown exponentially into mainstream use, flooding the internet and social media feeds with AI-generated content. But the same can’t be said for audio-based...read more