School of Computing and Information Science

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 […]

Intelligent in its assessment for 2020 ranks the University of Maine online Master’s in Information Systems degree program as one of the best in the nation.  It ranks the program at number 16 out of 402 similar online education programs compared.  Both the UMaine online MS in Information Systems and the online Graduate Certificate in […]

Dr. Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh is lead author on a research article recently published in the journal Entropy titled Convergence Rates for Empirical Estimation of Binary Classification Bounds. Abstract Bounding the best achievable error probability for binary classification problems is relevant to many applications including machine learning, signal processing, and information theory. Many bounds on the […]

With the rapid growth in technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices and mobile applications, the needs for protecting privacy of individuals and developing applications that are consistent with their own privacy policies and existing privacy-related regulations have become more emergent. In this talk, recent efforts in tackling these challenges and bridging the gap […]

The School of Computing and Information Science has continued support for the Boardman Learning Lab and Lounge, located in Boardman Hall Room 137/138. The lab, now managed by Computer Science faculty member Chris Dufour, is designed to provide a social workspace for students at all levels. Critical to the labs success is its usage as […]

Dr. Richard Corey serving as the UMaine Principal Investigator with Hari Palani as the Unar Labs Principal Investigator, receive $225,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop a multimodal interface to improve independence of Blind and Visually-Impaired people. The broader impact/commercial potential of this project will be to promote empowerment of millions of blind and visually-impaired (BVI) […]

Computer Science faculty member Roy Turner has published a textbook begun some time ago by him and his late wife, Elise Turner (who was a faculty member and chair of the Department of Computer Science).  The book, Foundations of Computer Science (R.M. Turner & E.H. Turner, Top Hat Monacle, 2019), was written for and is […]

A $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation EPSCoR program will fund a five-year initiative that aims to revolutionize environmental monitoring, ecological understanding and sustainability of coastal ecosystems. Dr. Kate Beard-Tisdale is among the four Co-Principal Investigators leading the project which additionally include Dr. David Emerson, Dr. Michael Kinnison, and Dr. Heather Leslie while […]