Category: Game track
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Microsoft launches competition to create collaborative AI system to play Minecraft
A Microsoft Research team challenged PhD students to craft an advanced AI-based system that can collaborate with people in playing the popular Minecraft game, offering three $20K prizes. Minecraft was chosen because it offers an environment that, which relatively simple in some ways, it requires advances in areas that are still difficult for artificial…
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Career and internship opportunities at Google, 9/29-30
Google will hold several events where UMBC students can find out about career and internship opportunities on Thursday and Friday, September 29-30.
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3D Capturing the Future at UMBC
UMBC has acquired a photogrammetry-based 3D acquisition system (multi-camera computer vision 3D capture system) as a research instrument to enable easy and repeatable collection of data across a wide range of research areas.
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11th UMBC Digital Entertainment Conference, 11-5 Sat. April 30
The 11th UMBC Digital Entertainment Conference will be held 11-5 on Saturday, April 30 in the Commons at UMBC.
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HackUMBC 24 -hour student hackathon, 5-6 March 2016 at UMBC
HackUMBC is a 24 hour student hackathon that will take place on Saturday and Sunday, March 5-6, 2016 at UMBC.
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UMBC hosts Global Game Jam site, 1/29-1/31
UMBC is a host site for the 2016 Global Game Jam, 5pm Fri. Jan. 29 to 5pm Sun. Jan 31. Space is limited, so sign up now!
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talk: John Kloetzli, DirectX 11 Software Tessellation, 11/13
UMBC alumnus John Kloetzli of Firaxis Games talks about using GPUs for tessellation algorithms, Friday Nov. 13, ITE 102, UMBC
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HueBots game created by UMBC students now on Steam
Technical.ly Baltimore reports that the HueBots robot-building game made by a four UMBC students has been added to the PC game platform Steam. “HueBots is a deceptively challenging top-down puzzle game. You control a team of colorful robots that will only interact with objects that match their color; they will also keep moving in one…
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UMBC Game Developers Club Summer Game Jam, 5-7 June 2015
The UMBC Game Developers Club will hold its annual Summer Game Jam Friday, June 5 to Sunday June 7 in the GAIM lab in Engineering 005. The game jam theme is Art and Code out of a Hat. There will be one "hat" from which a team will pull three random art assets, and another "hat"…
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Freeman Hrabowski on the future of learning
UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski’s CNBC commentary talks about the future of learning, video games, student engagement, diversity and STEAM (STEM+Arts).