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2018 BCI Designers Hackathon

Christoph Guger IEEE SMC hosted a BCI Designers Hackathon in Miyazaki from October 6-7, 2018. The Hackathon was a 2 day event where programmers, developers and scientists met to design and create new brain-computer interface applications. The Hackathon started on the first day with talks about how to create BCIs and possible applications. Attendees also…

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Nominations for 2019-21 SMC Society BOG Members-at-Large

Dear SMC Society Members, Below is the list of BOG approved nominations 2019-21 SMC Society BOG Members-at-Large. Approved Nominations for 2019-21 SMC Society BOG Tiago Falk, Canada Liping Fang, Canada Mo El-Hawary , USA Bin Hu, China David Kaber, USA Okyay Kaynak, Turkey Vladik Kreinovich, USA Jianbo Lu, USA Saeid Nahavandi, Australia Ngoc Nguyen, Poland…

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4th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference

During September 16-19, 2018 the 4th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference will be held in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. This is the flagship conference of the IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community of which the IEEE SMC Society is a member. A panel session held on September 17th as part of the opening plenary session will…

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Call for Robotic Competition Participation

Competition Theme: Expandable Robots – From Small to Big (S2B)   Motivation: Robots for exploration and operations, such as space robots for planetary surface missions, are facing constraints in mass and volume. Larger robots have potentially more capabilities for mobility and dexterity, yet small packing volumes are justified by the constraints of space transport vehicles….

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Brains and Machines and Prizes—Oh, My!

As part of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2018)—the flagship annual conference of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society—the IEEE SMC 2018 8th Workshop on Brain-Machine Interface Systems (BMI) will be held on October 7-10, 2018 in Miyazaki, Japan. The four-day workshop (free to all registered IEEE SMC 2018 attendees)…

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Your Window to the Future!

Ethics are a vital part of the value IEEE brings to the engineering world—and captured in the Symbiotic Autonomous Systems (SAS) Workshop at the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2018) on October 7-10 in Miyazaki, Japan. The full-day workshop on Tuesday 9 October 2018—chaired by Raj Madhavan and Francesco…

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Your Opportunity for Robotics Fame Awaits!

Here’s your chance to have a great time creating novel, and useful, robots and win an international competition: Expandable Robots – From Small to Big (S2B)! On October 8-9 at IEEE SMC 2018 in Miyazaki, Japan, show your colleagues how your robot can be packed in small volumes, deploy from its small package to larger…

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