Summer of AI
Thursday, May 29, 2025
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The Kick-off event will include a Gen AI showcase featuring brief demos of several AI tools, and launch us into the "Summer of AI" filled with workshops, lectures, and panel discussions about the many aspects of this new and revolutionary technology.
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
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This hands-on beginners’ workshop will introduce the participants to text generating AIs. We will explore their features and capabilities and apply them in streamlining teaching tasks and research. Other concepts will include: privacy/security, legal and ethical considerations of AI, and generative AI’s place in higher education.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
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This hands-on, hybrid, beginners’ workshop will introduce participants to image (still and moving) generating AIs. We will explore their features and capabilities and apply them in higher education settings. You will learn how to safely streamline your work, reduce production time, and easily generate visual aids for your classroom needs.
Thursday, June 5, 2025
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This hands-on beginners’ workshop will walk the participants through the creation process of a custom LLM for classroom purposes with Illinois.chat created by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Please bring your laptops.
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
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Session details coming soon.
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Session details coming soon.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
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This session will focus on the ease of creating custom AI agents using ChatGPT and Copilot. Attendees will first explore existing custom AI agents and then learn how to easily create their own specialized agent.
Thursday, June 12, 2025
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Session details coming soon.
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
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AI from a digital humanities perspective-- AI is one of many tools that influence the ways we write, research, and teach. How can a digital humanities perspective help instructors (and their students) balance ethics and innovation when choosing which tools to use for their class assignments?
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
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Session details coming soon.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
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This hands-on workshop introduces practical strategies for using AI tools to support student success. Participants will explore how generative AI can be used to foster engagement, provide real-time feedback, enhance study habits, support diverse learning needs, and build academic confidence.
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
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This presentation showcases workflows and use cases to leverage an AI chatbot for research tasks and project development. Mindful of flaws and many challenges, I conclude that use of the chat bot for research tasks often extends my productivity and saves time.
Thursday, June 26, 2025
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Session details coming soon.
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
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This session will attempt to approach AI and AI dystopia from the margins. By centering Black epistemologies and Afro-futurist aesthetics in two recent animation - Iwaju (Disney, 2024) and Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (Animation Works, 2024), I call for a more inclusive design thinking in developing and branding AI technologies for people of color, especially within predom
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
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This session will showcase what the Illinois Chat platform is about including the use cases and future plans
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
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This hands-on beginners’ workshop will introduce the participants to text generating AIs. We will explore their features and capabilities and apply them in streamlining teaching tasks and research. Other concepts will include: privacy/security, legal and ethical considerations of AI, and generative AI’s place in higher education.
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
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This hands-on, hybrid, beginners’ workshop will introduce participants to image (still and moving) generating AIs. We will explore their features and capabilities and apply them in higher education settings. You will learn how to safely streamline your work, reduce production time, and easily generate visual aids for your classroom needs.
Thursday, July 10, 2025
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This hands-on beginners’ workshop will walk the participants through the creation process of a custom LLM for classroom purposes with Illinois.chat created by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Please bring your laptops.
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
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Session details coming soon.
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
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Session details coming soon.
Thursday, July 17, 2025
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Session details coming soon.
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
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This session will focus on the ease of creating custom AI agents using ChatGPT and Copilot. Attendees will first explore existing custom AI agents and then learn how to easily create their own specialized agent.
Thursday, July 31, 2025
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Session details coming soon.