Dr. James Campbell died on June 21, 2023 of a heart attack. Jim’s PhD work in Spatial Information Science and Engineering was directed at making scientific data more readily accessible to both scientists and the general public. He completed his PhD dissertation titled “Toward a Commons of Geographic Data” in 2015. Yet long before completion […]
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USM Speaker Series on AI and Computation Our adventure with AI methods in orthopedics: lessons learned Hilal Maradit Kremers, MD Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN When: October 7th (Thursday), 4-5pm Zoom Link: https://maine.zoom.us/my/usm.datascience Abstract Total joint arthroplasty (TJA) are the most common and the fastest-growing surgeries in the US, however, the evidence for TJA practice and […]
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The Excellence in Writing Award from the American Council for the Blind was given to Nicholas Giudice of the VEMI Lab in recognition of his Medium essay “COVID-19 and Blindness,” which describes the challenges blind people are facing during the pandemic.
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We are seeking an undergraduate student employee to join the Maine-eDNA team, a large NSF EPSCoR funded project (https://umaine.edu/edna/). One goal of the project is to build an integrated data repository of environmental DNA (eDNA), which is DNA obtained from fresh and marine water samples and subjected to high throughput sequencing. As part of the […]
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We are seeking an undergraduate student employee to join the Maine-eDNA team, a large NSF EPSCoR funded project (https://umaine.edu/edna/). One goal of the project is to build an integrated data repository of environmental DNA (eDNA), which is DNA obtained from fresh and marine water samples and subjected to high throughput sequencing. eDNA samples need to […]
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Professor Nicholas Giudice was recently interviewed by Forbes Magazine about autonomous vehicles and the work being accomplished at the University of Maine VEMI Lab The Forbes piece, called How Passengers With Disabilities Can Drive The Autonomous Vehicle Revolution, is at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/gusalexiou/2021/04/11/how-passengers-with-disabilities-can-drive-the-autonomous-vehicle-revolution/?sh=5c73e6e618a5 How Passengers With Disabilities Can Drive The Autonomous Vehicle Revolution
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Jim Campbell received his PhD in Spatial Information Science and Engineering in 2015 with a concentration in Information Law and Policy. He has a continuing keen interest in personal privacy in the digital age. In addition to continuing to publish and make presentations in professional venues, he has produced a short weekly radio program on […]
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See the podcast by Penny Rheingans, director of the University of Maine’s School of Computing and Information Science, and Roy Turner, associate professor of computer science. They help unravel the fascinating and complicated story of AI. See https://umaine.edu/podcasts/2021/03/11/s4e3-what-is-ai-and-what-roles-does-it-play-in-our-lives/
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Date: Monday, November 23rd Time: 12pm noon Zoom Connection Info: https://maine.zoom.us/j/89376362608?pwd=Q0h4NkNhQUhJTjA5VXNDVU5BVVNPdz09 Meeting ID: 893 7636 2608 Password: 059076 Title: Approximating first order logic ontologies in OWL Abstract: With the amount of data collected everyday ever expanding, techniques which allow computers to semantically understand data are growing in importance. Ontologies are a tool to describe the […]
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See the full article at https://umaine.edu/news/blog/2020/10/19/umaine-computer-scientist-helps-develop-nsf-backed-ai-to-predict-track-flood-damage-to-city-infrastructure-services/
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