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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The University of Maine will host the third annual conference of the U.S. chapter of The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS) June 12–16. This year, presentations and interactive sessions offered by U.S. and international experts will focus on “Emergency Management, Homeland Security, and Computing.” The five-day event also will provide networking opportunities for attendees and […]
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Computer science students at the University of Maine will showcase original games they have created on Thursday, Dec. 8. Two video game exhibitions will be held in the Soderberg Center of Jenness Hall on the UMaine campus. The events are free and open to the public. From 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., 14 teams of […]
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Thirteen University of Maine computer science and engineering students traveled to Binghamton University last weekend to take part in the America East Hackathon. At the two-day competition, students from universities in the America East Academic Consortium used coding and other skills to address civic challenges by building hardware and desktop, web and mobile applications. UMaine […]
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The National Center for Women in Technology (NCWIT) and Google.org have awarded the University of Maine $3,000 to establish a student chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery-Women in Computing (ACM-W). UMaine is one of seven institutions to receive a 2016 NCWIT seed grant to develop a new a chapter of the ACM-W. The funding […]
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Six University of Maine students will put their computer hacking skills to the test this weekend at the second Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition at Rochester Institute of Technology. The UMaine students, most of whom are computer science majors, will compete against students from nine other universities. By racing each other to hack into computer networks, […]
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Tenure and/or promotion for 15 University of Maine faculty members has been approved by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees. The faculty were nominated by UMaine President Susan J. Hunter based on a peer and administrative review of their successful work in teaching, research and public service. “The caliber of these faculty members […]
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Bruce Segee, the Henry R. and Grace V. Butler Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maine; Craig Mason, a UMaine professor of education; and Ami Gaspar, an advanced computing outreach specialist with IT and the Maine LearnToMod project manager, were recent guests on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s “Maine Calling” radio […]
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