The UMBC Laboratory for Advanced Information Technology (LAIT) is an interdiciplinary research group focused on advanced database and knowledge-based systems, intelligent agents, text and natural language processing, intelligent interfaces, information retrieval and hypertext systems, machine learning, and artificial life.
Application areas include information retrieval, manufacturing planning and scheduling, electronic commerce, healthcare information systems and electronic publishing.
LAIT includes faculty and students from the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering as well as the Information Systems Department and Department of Geography.