News and Events

VEMI Continues Outreach to Inspire Maine Kids with STEM Education

On February 23rd, SCIS faculty and students affiliated with the Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Lab wil be traveling to Lincoln Academy in Newcastle. The group will be speaking to students about math and science, the VEMI lab, and even exhibiting some of the exciting work that the lab has been doing in virtual reality. This […]

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Join the Cybersecurity Team!

Unlike any time before, society is at risk of cyber-attacks and lives under the oppressive threat of information being stolen with a “click.” The emerging threats against the electric grid and other elements of the country’s Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) have created an ever-increasing need for men and women to defend it. The […]

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UMaine Career Fair 2016: Computer Science Students Wanted!

On Wednesday, February 3rd, students are invited to attend the 2016 UMaine Career Fair, which will be in the New Balance Recreation Center from 10 am to 3 pm. Open to all UMaine undergraduate and graduate students, this event will feature 140 businesses, universities, and graduate programs from Maine and around the country. Many of […]

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Undergraduate and Graduate Computer Science Students Compete for Best Game

On December 10th, undergraduate and graduate computer science students were able to demonstrate their creativity and programming ability in a fun an exciting way, through gaming. Students in COS 125 (Introduction to Problem Solving Using Computer Programming), COS 312 (An Introduction to Video Game Programming with the Unity Game Engine), and COS 598 (Advanced Game […]

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Professor Turner and SCIS have Impressive Showing at CONTEXT 2015

Recently, Professor Roy Turner presented three papers at CONTEXT’15 (International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context) conference in Larnaca, Cyprus, which was held on November 2-6. In addition to the papers that were presented, Professor Turner also chaired a panel at the conference. The first paper was entitled ” Modeling erroneous human behavior: […]

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SCIS Graduate Students and Faculty Have Impressive Showing at COSIT

From October 12-16, the School of Information and Computing Science at the University of Maine sent several researchers to COSIT, one of the most significant conferences in the world for spatial information theory. Established in 1993 and only held every two years, COSIT seeks to bring together scientists from different disciplines for an intensive and […]

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Graduate Student Spotlight: Matthew Dube

Matt Dube (Ph.D. Candidate in Spatial Information Science and Engineering in the School of Computing and Information Science) has had a very busy and successful semester. He was recently Faculty of the Month for the month of September from the sisters of the Maine Alpha Chapter of Pi Beta Phi sorority.  Matt was recognized for […]

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Recent Ph.D. Dissertations Available

In the Spring 2015 semester, several Ph.D. candidates successfully presented and defended their dissertations, including Liping Yang, Qinghan Liang, Francis Neville, and Lisa Walton. The Abstracts of these dissertations are below, and full texts are available for review in written form through the School of Computing and Information Science, and will soon be available for download at http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/.   “Theories […]

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Dr. Turner to Present three Papers in Cyprus

Dr. Roy Turner will be presenting three papers co-authored with others within the School of Computing and Information Science at the Ninth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT’15) in Cyprus in early November. These papers include: Modeling erroneous human behavior: A context-driven approach (Chris Wilson and Roy M. Turner) Representing and […]

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