A new grant with VEMI researchers Dr. Nicholas Giudice (PI) and Dr. Richard Corey, collaborating with Dr. Shelley Lin from Northeastern looks at ways to combine AI techniques with autonomous vehicle technology to make this transportation of the future safer and more accessible for older adults and visually impaired people. This UMaine/Northeastern seed grant was […]
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Title: Semantic Inference from Natural Language Privacy Policies Abstract: Several state laws, along with app markets, such as Apple’s App Store and Google Play, require app developers to provide users with legal privacy notices (privacy policy) containing critical requirements that inform users about what kinds of personal information is collected, how the data is used, and […]
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Welcome to the start of your Fall semester at UMaine! The School of Computing and Information Science and the Educate Maine program, Project>Login, would like to invite you to join our virtual workshop series, CS Connected. CS Connected will be an opportunity for students this semester to attend virtual get-togethers in order to meet and […]
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The Graduate Certificate in Computing for Educators is now available for those desiring to teach computational thinking, computer coding, and computer science skills problem-solving courses primarily in grades 9-12. The program is completely online and most courses are taught simultaneously on campus and at a distance. The program is designed to educate teachers with little […]
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The following announcement has been widely distributed to businesses and high school teachers in Maine. If you are potentially interested in acquiring a graduate degree in spatial informatics or information systems, please read further. • Are you or your business facing long-term challenges in incorporating computing, data science, and information systems thinking and the ability […]
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Dr Manuel Woersdoerfer is the author of a research article recently published in the Philosophy of Management Journal titled Ordoliberalism 2.0: Towards a New Regulatory Policy for the Digital Age. Abstract: In the light of several ongoing antitrust investigations in the E.U. and the U.S., the following research paper analyzes whether ‘big tech’ – same […]
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VEMI researchers have recently published a new paper providing guidelines and best practices for nonvisual access to graphical material using touchscreen-based haptic interfaces. The article, published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI), synthesizes the results of a series of six studies with both blind and sighted participants evaluating the efficacy of the vibro-audio […]
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The following new courses are scheduled to be offered in Fall 2020. Please check the prerequisites listed below and check with your graduate advisor to ensure they will be accepted on your graduate program of study. All of these 598 courses are proposed as permanent courses and are undergoing campus review at the current time […]
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Professor Harlan Onsrud, School of Computing and Information Science, and Dr. James Campbell, UMaine Alumnus, recently published an article titled Being Human in an Algorithmically Controlled World in the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. In their introduction to a special issue on Transdisciplinary Opportunities in the Geospatial Humanities, the guest editors Alberto Giordano, […]
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Are you interested in how the Congressional gerrymandering crisis might be addressed? If so, join us at a presentation on pioneering work being accomplished by University of Maine System researchers to guide State legislatures and the courts towards far more defensible redistricting results. When: Wednesday, March 11, 3:30-4:30 pm Where: Rm 140 Bennett Hall , University […]
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