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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Professor Kate Beard is PI on a grant from NSF to advance careers of women in the Geospatial Sciences. The grant is referred to as TRELIS (Training and Retaining Leaders in STEM – Geospatial Sciences (TRELIS-GS) to convey the concept of a human capital trellis or scaffold of support, and represent the reality of nonlinear career trajectories that move […]

Perhaps you may be interested in some little known facts about Spatial Informatics at the University of Maine.. Did you know that … – Spatial Informatics faculty members affiliated with the UMaine Spatial Data Science Institute currently serve as PI or Co-PI on over $30,185,000 of active externally funded research projects. These projects involve a […]