Digital Trends mentioned inventions made by Nimesha Ranasinghe, an assistant professor of computing and information science and director of the Multisensory Interactive Media Lab at the University of Maine, in the article, “Japanese scientists are chewing over an ‘electric gum’ that never loses flavor.” The article focused on an “unlimited electric gum,” created by researchers […]
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WABI (Channel 5) covered the 10th anniversary celebration of the University of Maine’s Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction Laboratory (VEMI Lab) at Buchanan Alumni House on Sept. 21. The lab hosted the VEMI 10 Conference to highlight successes of VEMI alumni, the report states. The conference involved presentations, discussions and a barbecue lunch. VEMI is […]
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The success and growth of the Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction Laboratory (VEMI Lab) over the past 10 years has been possible thanks to the hard work and dedication of its students. To celebrate a decade of VEMI, the lab is hosting the VEMI 10 Conference at Buchanan Alumni House from 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Friday, […]
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Mainebiz and WVII (Channel 7) reported Nicholas Giudice, a professor of spatial informatics and the director of the Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Laboratory at the University of Maine, and Hari Prasath Palani, a postdoctoral researcher in spatial informatics at UMaine, have released the first app through their startup company. Last October, Giudice and Palani […]
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IEEE Spectrum magazine, Digital Trends, Newsweek, The Telegraph, The Sun, 94.9 WHOM, Q97.9, WCYY and Smithsonian magazine reported Nimesha Ranasinghe, an assistant professor and director of the Multisensory Interactive Media Lab at the University of Maine, has invented a pair of chopsticks with embedded electrodes to simulate flavors in food. The electrodes zap the tongue to simulate […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in a Mount Desert Islander article about an MDI High School game development class. Four students are taking their love of video games and combining it with art and science, developing their own games in the classroom, according to the article. “The big goal is to take game players […]
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Editor’s note: Due to the Oct. 31 power outage, this event has been rescheduled for 4:30 to 7 p.m. Nov. 7. The Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Laboratory at the University of Maine will host a Halloween-themed open house from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Oct. 31. The lab, located in Carnegie Hall, is part […]
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The University of Maine’s School of Computing and Information Science and student chapter of ACM-W (Association of Computing Machinery’s Council on Women in Computing) will present a talk by software engineer Becky Plummer on Oct. 12. Plummer will present “How my love of computer science blossomed as a Maine-iac and took me to London” from […]
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University of Maine undergraduate students Katie Manzo and Julianna Ferguson have been chosen to receive this year’s Margaret Chase Smith Public Affairs Scholarship. Each student will carry out a yearlong research project with relevance to public policy in Maine. The project will culminate in a presentation at the 2018 UMaine Student Symposium, where they will […]
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The annual conference of the U.S. Chapter of the International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS) will be held June 12–16 at the University of Maine. The theme of this year’s meeting is emergency management, homeland security and computing. Throughout the five-day event, sponsored by the UMaine Cybersecurity Lab and the University of Maine System, U.S. and […]
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