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Debate: Ethics of brain-computer interface technology

What ethical problems might advances in brain-computer interface technology create? That’s the question that will be debated Monday evening as part of the UMBC BioCOM Ethical Debates (B-Ethical)...

Posted: February 26, 2015, 9:57 AM

Join the 2015 Global Game Jam at UMBC, 23-25 January

For the seventh year in a row, UMBC is the Baltimore-area host site for the Global Game Jam (GGJ). In a game jam, people come together to make a video game — a hackathon for game development....

Posted: January 8, 2015, 10:31 PM

Are Humanoids Inevitable?

Dr. Stephen Freeland, an astrobiologist from the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, thinks that convergent evolutionary pressures are strong and that we are bound to run into other...

Posted: November 28, 2014, 10:39 AM

hackUMBC ’14 Registration Opens

The second hackUMBC is coming! (And has nothing to do with security.) hackUMBC ’14 will take place on the weekend of 27-28 September (Saturday into Sunday). The event is open to students of any...

Posted: August 29, 2014, 4:15 PM

Maryland Cybersecurity Roundtable, 1:30pm Thr. May 29

The Maryland Cybersecurity Roundtable will be launched at an open meeting at the Hotel at Arundel Mills Preserve from 1:30-2:30 on Thursday, May 29. Attend to learn about the Roundtable, hear...

Posted: May 27, 2014, 3:33 PM