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The GGJ is the largest game jam event with 850 physical locations in 113 countries. In 2019 it had over 47,000 participants, who made 9,010 games together in 48 hours. Global Game Jam 2020...

UMBC fields two teams in 2019 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship The UMBC Chess program has two four-player teams competing in the 2019 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team...

CMSC 201, Computer Science I (section for non-CS/non-CE majors) Does your major require you to take CMSC 201? Or are you looking for an entry-level computing course to supplement your major?...

The Cyber Dawgs at the CyberForce competition. From left, Charles Nicholas, Anna Staats, Drew Barrett, Grant Spencer, Cyrus Bonyadi, and Seamus Burke. Photo courtesy of Argonne National Lab. UMBC...

UMBC’s CyberDawgs win first place in the 2019 DOE Cyberforce Competition Cyberdawgs place first out of 105 teams in DOE’s 5th CyberForce Competition Congratulations to the UMBC CyberDawgs...

New for Fall 2019! CMSC 291 Continued Computer Science for Non-Majors This fall, Dr. Susan Mitchell will teach a special topics course designed for all non-computer science, non-computer...

Fall 2019 CMSC 201 Computer Science I Section for Non-Majors This fall, Dr. Susan Mitchell will teach a special section of CMSC 201 Computer Science I designed for all non-computer science,...

UMBC’s 15th Digital Entertainment Conference 11:00am-5:00pm, Saturday, May 11, 2019 Commons Sports Zone, UMBC The Digital Entertainment Conference (DEC) is an annual...

SFS cyberdefense scholarship applications due Noon Monday, April 15 The next application deadline for SFS cyberdefense scholarships at UMBC is 12:00 noon Monday, 15 April 2019, for possible...

CMSC 201 Computer Science I for Non-CS Disciplines Spring 2019 This spring, Dr. Susan Mitchell will teach a special section of CMSC 201 Computer Science I designed for social and biological...