School of Computing and Information Science

The University of Maine has been designated a national Center of Academic Excellence in Geospatial Sciences. As such, we have been informed that the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) will be giving extra scrutiny to students that apply for internships from our academic programs because they know that the University of Maine offers the range […]

UMaine will be hosting the 2016 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition March 11-13, 2016. This is a tremendous competition and this is the third time that UMaine is hosting it. For more details on the competition go to http://neccdc.net. Also, you can follow the development of the competition on Twitter at @NECCDC2016, which also tweets […]

We are pleased to announce a recent National Science Foundation (NSF) award made to Drs. Silvia Nittel and Max Egenhofer, School of Computing and Information Science, University of Maine with a total amount of $500,000.00. This project, entitled “III: Small: From Real-Time Sensor Data Streams to Continuous Field Data Models: Formal Foundations and Computational Challenges,” is under the direction of […]

The 12th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), to be held in October in Santa Fe, NM, will have strong participation of UMaine researchers in the School of Computing and Information Science. COSIT (http://www.cosit.info) is a biennial meeting with a single-track focusing on recent, innovative and significant contributions in the domain of spatial information […]

Congratulations to all bachelors, masters and PhD students from the School of Computing and Information Science completing their academic degrees in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Spatial Information Science and Engineering. Pictured are the breakfast crew just prior to commencement ceremonies and the PhD hooding of James Campbell at commencement. It was a joyous day […]

A team from COS498 Video Game Programming has just launched an Indie Game company. See a portal to play one game and see the movie describing another at http://puddlesquid.com

Open to the public; all are welcome. Date: Friday, May 1st, 2015 Time: 9:15 am–3:00 pm Location: 120 Neville Hall (CHANGE), Room 355. Session 1: 9:15–10:30 am 9:15 Ryan Billings Procedural Generation and Artificial Intelligence in Video Games (part 1) 9:30 Ross Trundy Procedural Generation and Artificial Intelligence in Video Games (part 2) 9:45 Zachary […]

Theories and Models of Indoor Space, Dissertation Advisors: Dr. M. Kate Beard-Tisdale and Dr. Michael F. Worboys When: Friday May 1, 3:00 pm Where: 336 Boardman Hall Abstract Although people’s daily lives are situated in both outdoor and indoor space, they actually spend most of their time in indoor environments. Traditional geospatial science has focused […]

Title: Towards the Continuous Spatio-Temporal Field Model for Sensor Data Streams When: Tuesday May 5 2015, 1:00 pm Where: 336 Boardman Hall Today, with the availability of inexpensive, wireless enabled sensor nodes, we encounter a massive amount of geo-referenced sensor streams, which are collected continuously, spatially dense, and in real-time. Continuous geographic phenomena such as […]

We invite all who are interested to the next DSE seminar to be presented by Dr. Silvia Nittel, Spatial Informatics, School of Computing and Information Science. The seminar will be Friday April 24 at 3:00 in room 336 Boardman Hall. From Sensor Streams to Fields Silvia Nittel, Spatial Informatics, School of Computing and Information Science […]