UMBC Ebiquity Research Group

20 years of research on AI, machine learning, NLP, knowledge representation, and systems applied to problems in cybersecurity, mobile computing, & social media

[Tim Finin @timFinin]

ISWC 2024 (@iswc_conf) is near Baltimore, MD, Nov 11-15. It will host a symposium on NSF's Open Knowledge Network (OKN) effort on Nov 12 to help bring together the US OKN community with knowledge graph researchers & practitioners from around the globe. #AI https://t.co/5fw9R0j5Xp

[UMBC Ebiquity Research Group @ebiquity]

New paper: Exploring the Impact of Increased Health Information Accessibility in Cyberspace on Trust and Self-care Practices, ACM SaT-CPS: ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems, June 2024. https://t.co/e7w9OVtt6y

[AI.UMBC.EDU @AI_UMBC]

Join UMD's Web Librarian, Amy Swackhamer, at the next AI, Privacy, and Ethics Symposium as she covers the current digital data privacy concerns, recent developments in technology, and laws and reasons to care about your data privacy. 12-1 ET Mon, April 22
https://t.co/R5CgfO4LUU

[AI.UMBC.EDU @AI_UMBC]

Join UMBC AOK Library staff in an online interview with academic and research librarian Dr. Ray Pun (@raypun101) on all things AI and higher ed, 12-1 ET on Monday, April 8. Ask about ChatGPT, LLMs, NLP tools, and the future of libraries. https://t.co/NFoqdgFTM6

[Tim Finin @timFinin]

Weizenbaum's classic 1966 Eliza paper showed that a simple computer program could appear intelligent without having any real understanding. His earlier 1962 paper described how a simple program to play Gomoku (aka Five-in-a-Row) could beat most humans. #AI
https://t.co/myY41W5l7w

[UMBC Ebiquity Research Group @ebiquity]

New paper on how well generative AI systems like ChatGPT-4, Bard, and Bing AI understand today's privacy policies. GenAIPABench: A Benchmark for Generative AI-based Privacy Assistants, to appear in Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. #LLM #AI
https://t.co/eBKMHY69Pk

[umbccsee @umbccsee]

UMBC Prof. Karen Chen discusses her research using multimodal machine learning & data analytics to characterize parent-child interactions and possible applications to education & social work; 2-3:00pm ET March 15 in 412 Math/Psych and online via WebEx. #AI https://t.co/Lo06StO0ho

[umbccsee @umbccsee]

Li Zhang (UPenn) on Structured Event Reasoning with Large Language Models, Tue March 5, 2:15-3:15 ET, 325b ITE & online. He shows that LLMs fail in reasoning about complex events & describes how adding structured event representations helps. #AI #LLM #NLP
https://t.co/src1PrvUW2

[UMBC Ebiquity Research Group @ebiquity]

The 23rd International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2024, will be held in Baltimore, MD, USA November 11-15, 2024. https://t.co/t9kO9EfE4J

[Tim Finin @timFinin]

"Remember, it’s important to say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to your ChatBot — it will give you better answers if you are polite". h/t @xchatty
https://t.co/0ZsBz2D8LP

[UMBC Ebiquity Research Group @ebiquity]

Enhancing Knowledge Graph Consistency through Open Large Language Models: A Case Study is a new paper on how well different LLM models detect inconsistencies between facts extracted from text and the provenance text from which they were extracted. #AI #NLP https://t.co/fL9wZOIbLn

[umbccsee @umbccsee]

Prof. 'YZ' Yezhou Yang (Arizona State University) talks on "Visual Concept Learning Beyond Appearances: Modernizing a Couple of Classic Ideas" at UMBC, 3:30-4:45 pm ET, Thursday, Feb. 8, in ITE 325b and online. #AI https://t.co/rshQztj82K

[umbccsee @umbccsee]

The UMBC CSEE Department invites applications for multiple faculty positions to begin in Fall 2024. Areas include Computer Science, Cybersecurity, and Electrical, Optical, or Computer Engineering. https://t.co/VpbvgXHStR.

[umbccsee @umbccsee]

Dr. Kowshik Thopalli of Lawrence Livermore National Labs will talk on Making Machine Learning Models Safer: Data and Model Perspectives at UMBC at 4:00pm ET on Wednesday, Nov. 29, in ENGR 231 and online via WebEx. #AL #ML #safety https://t.co/RsUo6IwzSw

[UMBC Cybersecurity Institute (UCI) @UCYBR]

Joe 'Kingpin' Grand will talk about his decades-long journey in the #cybersecurity industry, lessons learned along the way, and how he 'ethically hacked' into a #Bitcoin wallet to recover $2 million. 7-9 pm ET, Thursday, 16 November 2023 via Webex.
https://t.co/OOITkEAffD

[Tim Finin @timFinin]

FACT SHEET: President Biden issued an executive order on safe, secure, & trustworthy AI with new standards for safety, security, and privacy, equity, and civil rights, promotes innovation and competition, advances American leadership, and more. #AI
https://t.co/EAPyWlXITO

[Tim Finin @timFinin]

Jailbreaking AI is coaxing chatbots into bypassing restrictions, revealing their capabilities & limitations. It's both a hobby & a research field with real ethical concerns that chatbots can be used in unintended & potentially harmful ways. #AI #Chatbot
https://t.co/GHndBPaTm6

[UMBC Cybersecurity Institute (UCI) @UCYBR]

Microsoft released a new version of its threat matrix for storage services -- a structured tool that assists in identifying and analyzing potential security threats on data stored in cloud storage services. #cybersecurity https://t.co/Y8JeKhHYKz

[UMBC Ebiquity Research Group @ebiquity]

New paper: Semantically-informed Hierarchical Event Modeling, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Mehdi Rezaee, and Francis Ferraro, 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, 2023. @_starsem #AI #nlp

https://t.co/4WYalMZrCQ

[UMBC Ebiquity Research Group @ebiquity]

New paper: An Overview of Cybersecurity Knowledge Graphs Mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework Domains; Josh Bolton, Lavanya Elluri & Karuna Joshi; ISI 2023; IEEE. A study on how well current cybersecurity knowledge graphs map the MITRE ATT&CK matrices.
https://t.co/vmqnt6cKTZ