Tag Archives: Artificial Intelligence

Upcoming Vulnerability Management (DS-21) Changes

By | June 18, 2026
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Artificial Intelligence is rapidly changing the sphere of cybersecurity threats to IT infrastructures. The number of attacks targeting the university is increasing, while the time between identification and exploitation is decreasing. ITS Information Assurance (IA) is cognizant of the shifting threat landscape and is finalizing updates to the Vulnerability Management (DS-21) standard. Vulnerability management is a critical component of… Read More »

Michigan Medicine CoP Develops Free Dashboard Tool That Challenges Expensive BI Platforms

By | March 30, 2026
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Researchers and staff across campus face a common frustration: valuable data sits locked in SharePoint lists, Excel files, and CSV exports, inaccessible to the people who need it most. Traditional business intelligence tools require expensive licenses, dedicated IT staff, and months of deployment cycles. A new open source tool developed at Michigan Medicine aims to eliminate those barriers entirely.

Meet OnboardingA2 Maizey: Helping new staff get their bearings at U-M with the help of U-M AI Tools

By | April 23, 2025
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A young man, seated at a desk, is looking at a computer screen. The screen displays a friendly-looking, stylized robot superimposed on a University of Michigan logo. Circular, glowing indicators around the robot display various icons related to communication (email, benefits) as well as other services.

U-M recently rolled out an improved Ann Arbor campus New Employee Orientation, a new U-M Onboarding program, and OnboardingA2 Maizey, an AI-powered chatbot that delivers answers to common new-hire questions.

OpenAI’s o1 and o3-mini reasoning models now available through U-M GPT

By | April 22, 2025
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Information and Technology Services is pleased to announce the integration of two new models into U-M GPT, the o1 and the o3-mini from OpenAI, which users can now access through the U-M GPT homepage dropdown menu. This update marks the first inclusion of ‘reasoning models’ to U-M’s AI services, which excel in the ability to perform tasks that require multi-step… Read More »

Fall 2024 Enhancements to Maizey AI

By | September 30, 2024
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Earlier this fall, the Emerging Technology team within ITS released several improvements and new features for our custom generative AI tool, Maizey. As the academic year unfolds, these features will help faculty, staff, and students to streamline workflows, create and interact with custom AI tutors, and more.

Using GenAI to design floor plans and buildings

By | February 27, 2024
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There is a lot to consider when designing places where humans live and work. How will the space be used? Who’s using the space? What are budget considerations? It is painstaking and time consuming to develop all of those details into something usable.  What if Generative AI (GenAI) could help? We already know that it can be used… Read More »

Tech Tip: Bluesky

By | December 6, 2023
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This month I’m highlighting a decentralized social app called Bluesky. It was developed by former Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey. It aims to create a new form of social media that is open, transparent, and community-driven. The platform uses an open-source framework and has a Twitter-like user interface with algorithmic choice, federated design, and community-specific moderation. Its goal is… Read More »

Free GenAI prompt literacy course, resources

By | November 28, 2023
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Nick Gaspar was a member of the Generative AI Advisory (GAIA) Committee that wrote the GenAI report for the university. “During that time I saw a widening gap of knowledge across the university when it came to writing prompts for AI, so I built a free prompt literacy course for the campus community.” AI prompts are text or… Read More »