The digital advancements of 21st century provide a bounty of advantages, but there is a downside as well. Some computer programmers have chosen to take advantage of the public. These malicious programmers, commonly known as ‘hackers,’ create computer viruses or gain access to private information for nefarious purposes The field that deals with understanding, preventing […]
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As has been usual practice in the past, the COS 125 class will have its dress rehearsal for their Game Exhibition on Tuesday 12/9 from 11:15 am to 12:15 pm in the Soderberg Center located in Jenness Hall at the University of Maine. At the dress rehearsal we have need of volunteers who play the […]
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Now accepting applications for U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 2015 HS-STEM Summer Internships The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sponsors a 10-week summer internship program for undergraduate and graduate students majoring in homeland security related science, technology, engineering and mathematics (HS-STEM) Disciplines. The program provides students with quality research experiences at federal research […]
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Friday, November 14, 2014, 1 PM Room 140 Little Hall University of Maine This talk is part of a series of talks presented by the Cybersecurity Lab of the School of Computing and Information Science Cybersecurity Teams and Human Factors (Team Dynamics) – It’s Not Just About the Digits Mr. W. Vince Quintana Principal Engineer, […]
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November 12, 204, 3:30-4:20 PM Hill Auditorium, Barrows HallSnacks at 3:15 PM The Not-So-Golden Ratio Prof. George Markowsky School of Computing and Information Science University of Maine The Golden Ratio, also called by different authors the Golden Section, Golden Number, Golden Mean, Divine Proportion, and division in extreme and mean ratios, has captured the popular […]
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The Virtual Environments and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Laboratory and the Advanced Manufacturing Center opened their doors to Maine Health Access Foundation members for a tour on Thursday, October 30th. The topic of the tour was the Successful Aging Initiative for Living, the University of Maine’s cross-disciplinary effort involving research and development seeking to “hinder the effects of an […]
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The Robot Interaction Laboratory at the School of Computing and Information Science (director: Dr. Reinhard Moratz) recently got a donation from the Maine-based company PenBaySolutions (Chief Technology Officer: Stuart Rich) of three advanced mapping robots. Currently the students Chris Dorr and Seraphina Orsini are working with the equipment to build augmented indoor maps. This will help to further […]
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Mid-Maine Global Forum Program Announcement Professor George Markowsky The Leeke-Shaw Lecture at the Margaret Chase Smith Library Cyber Warfare: Past, Present and Future Margaret Chase Smith Library Skowhegan, Maine Tuesday, October 28 11:30 lunch, 12 pm program Cyber warfare can be thought of as the latest embodiment of military intelligence. The ubiquity of computing devices […]
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Published: Sep 25, 2014 Author(s): Chui, Carmen, Gruninger, Michael, Hahmann, Torsten, Katsumi, Megan Abstract: This paper explores an alternative vision for upper ontologies which is more effective at facilitating the sharability and reusability of ontologies. The notion of generic ontologies is characterized through the formalization of ontological commitments and choices. Ontology repositories are used to modularize ontologies so that any […]
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T. Hahmann, B. Brodaric, M. Gruninger: Voids and material constitution across physical granularities. Proc. of the 8th Int. Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS-2014), 2014. IOS Press. Abstract: The relation between an object and its matter is fundamental to all physical sciences, and represented widely and diversely in scientific ontologies. An under-appreciated aspect of this relation is […]
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