Good morning ISSA Members,

The AOK Library has extended a special invitation to IS and ISSA students to attend their annual AI Symposium, "AI: EXPLORING THE GADGETS & GIZMOS IN YOUR AI TOOLKIT".

This week's session is particularly relevant to our field and features a UMBC PhD student. We highly encourage you to attend!

Event Details:

• Topic: "Making Sense of Data with AI: Lowering Barriers, Expanding Who Participates"

• Speaker: Jennifer Posada, Human-Centered Computing PhD student, UMBC

• Date: Wednesday, October 22

• Time: 12:00 P.M.

• Format: Online

Jennifer will be presenting on Large Language Models (LLMs) and how they have changed her own workflow by streamlining analysis and lowering barriers to iterating and exploring data.

This is part of a larger Wednesday series with several other topics that may interest you, including:

• Oct 15: "Beyond the Hype: Embedding Ethics in AI Policy..."

• Oct 29: "Building Trustworthy LLM Agents for Academia..."

• Nov 5: "The Privacy Paradox of GenAI: What It Knows, Why It Matters, and How We Fight Back"

Let's show our support! You can register by following the links on the library's myUMBC post or by using the attached flyer.

We hope to see you there!