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National Science Foundation Awards Dr. Hahmann $175,000 Research Grant to Advance Spatial Artificial Intelligence

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Dr. Torsten Hahmann from the School of Computing and Information Science a $175,000 research grant for the project “Empowering Multi-Conceptual Spatial Reasoning with a Repository of Qualitative and Quantitative Spatial Ontologies”. “Just over the hill” or “downstream” are phrases that are commonly used by people to communicate location […]

Interested in Cybersecurity?

Interested in cyber security? Join the UMaine Cyber Security Club! There will be a free barbecue on Friday, April 22nd in the DTAV/Patch quad. For more information, visit the club’s event page here.

New Research on Aging

The VEMI lab is proud to announce that Dr. Giudice and doctoral candidate Chris Bennett recently had an article accepted for publication in Experimental Aging Research. Check out their abstract below, and be sure to congratulate them if you see them! — Giudice, N.A., Bennett, C.R., Klatzky, R.L., and Loomis, J.M. (accepted). Updating of haptic arrays across […]

Campus Organization Tours VEMI lab

Recently, the University of Maine chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity toured Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maine. While VEMI and SCIS has become well known for their STEM outreach in the community, this time they looked inward to give a help the University of Maine Community. The students […]

Undergraduate Student Spotlight

This semester’s undergraduate student spotlight goes to Greg Kritzman, a senior in Computer Science here at the School of Computing and Information Science. I caught up with Greg to talk school, capstone, and even a little parkour. J- So tell me a bit about yourself. What do you like to do for fun? Greg- I […]

Four VEMI Lab Papers Accepted for 2016 Human-Computer Interaction International Conference

The VEMI Lab is pleased to announce that four lab-authored papers were accepted to the 2016 HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) International Conference, to be held in Toronto this upcoming July. Lead authors are VEMI graduate students Christopher Bennett, Hari Palani, Hengshan Li, and R.J. Perry. Citations for the papers are as follows: Bennett, C.R., Corey, R.R., […]

SCIS Students Continue STEM Outreach

On March 19th, members of the School of Computing and Information Science and the University of Maine community volunteered their time and expertise at the Maine Science Festival (MSF). Launched in in 2015, MSF is held annually with events across Downtown Bangor and at the Cross Insurance Center. Last year, the festival had more than […]

Graduate Student Spotlight: Stacy Doore

This month’s graduate student spotlight is Stacy Doore, a PhD candidate in Spatial Information Science and Computing. I caught up with Stacy to talk about SCIS, her research, and even about going to her first Comic-Con in April. J: So tell me a little bit about what you do here at the School of Computing […]

Research Assistantships Available

In anticipation of NSF funding for the project “Empowering Multi-Conceptual Spatial Reasoning with a Repository of Qualitative and Quantitative Spatial Ontologies”, Professor Hahmann is looking for two graduate students (at the Master or PhD level in Spatial Information Science and Engineering or in Computer Science) to work with him on this project. The students will […]

Dr. Giudice Elected To Iris Network Board Of Directors

Congratulations to our own Dr. Nicholas Giudice, who was recently elected to the Board of Directors for The Iris Network. The Iris Network is a leading nonprofit organization that is advancing policy, research, and training to assist blind and visually impaired people in Maine and across the nation. They specialize in helping visually impaired people attain independence, […]

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