School of Computing and Information Science

Congratulations to all those students from the VEMI Lab that participated in the Interactive Exhibition at the 2015 Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) Showcase on campus during the past week. Among the participants included: Sam Gates (Computer Science) “Multi-Tag Radio Frequency Indication for use in Indoor Positional Tracking Systems” [jointly awarded 1st prize for interactive […]

With successful defense of his PhD dissertation on April 7th, James Campbell becomes the 50th PhD granted from the University of Maine by the spatial informatics faculty. Pursuing a law and policy line of inquiry, his research program addressed “Toward a Commons of Geographic Data.” Members of his committee included Professor Harlan Onsrud, major advisor, […]

Congratulations to all students in the School that participated in the 2015 Graduate Academic Exposition on April 2 and 3. POSTER PRESENTATIONS included: • Matt Dube, The Degradation of Spatial Information through Composition • Joshua Lewis, Spatio-Temporal Scenes • Hari Palani, Touch-Screen Psychophysics: towards a better accessibility solution for visually-impaired people • Shirly Stephen, Integrating […]

Dr. Torsten Hahmann recently co-chaired the track “Beyond Semantic Sensor Network Ontologies” of the 2015 Ontology Summit entitled the “Internet of Things: Towards Smart Networked Systems and Societies”. The recordings of the sessions are now available at http://ontolog-02.cim3.net/wiki/ConferenceCall_2015_03_05 and http://ontolog-02.cim3.net/wiki/ConferenceCall_2015_01_29. (The server is unreliable so keep checking back). The Summit will culminate in a 2 […]

James Fastook recently participated in the 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2015/) with three papers relating to processes on Mars: 1) Late Noachian Icy Highlands: Scenarios for Top-down Melting and Volumes of Meltwater 2) Late Noachian Icy Highlands: Spatial Distribution of Top-down Melting and Volumes of Meltwater for Single-year Warming Events 3) Sources of […]

Hello from the VEMI Lab, Just a quick note about this past weekend: The VEMI Lab participated in the inaugural Maine Science Festival on March 21st & 22nd at the Cross Center.  Interest in the lab was way beyond expectation. We had around 4500 people tour our room, with the line often extending over 60 […]

Computer Science masters student, Sonia Rode, was co-author of a journal article with Professor Roy Turner and a USM student. The article citation is: CoDA: Distributed, context-based organization and reorganization of multi-AUV systems [R. Turner, S. Rode, and D. Gagne], Journal of Unmanned System Technology [JUST], vol. 2 no. 1, pp. 1–9, 2014.).  The research […]

Data Science and Engineering Seminar  Friday March 20, 1:00 pm, 336 Boardman Hall A Future History of Geographic Information Science Max J. Egenhofer School of Computing and Information Science and National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis University of Maine Orono, ME 04469-5711, USA max@spatial.maine.edu http://www.spatial.maine.edu/~max/ This talk is an abridged version of the keynote address at […]

Professors Max Egenhofer and Silvia Nittel have been appointed to the editorial board of the new journal Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards. Check out the new journal at http://www.opengeospatialdata.com

Dustin Sleight, a student working at the school’s VEMI Lab (http://www.vemilab.us/), and two additional mechanical engineering students, have successfully reached their KickStarter goal for developing and building a “six degrees of freedom” motion platform to provide real movement in virtual environments in the lab. See the kickstarter page at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1072290093/virtual-reality-motion-platform?ref=category_location. This is great capstone project. […]