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UMaine’s SCIS Represented at Geographic Information Science Conference in Vienna

Kate Beard, Max Egenhofer and Joshua Lewis presented research at the Eighth International Conference on Geographic Information Science in September 2014. The conference, referred to as GIScience 2014, was hosted by Vienna University of Technology in Austria. Kate Beard presented her paper at the First International Workshop on Context-Awareness in Geographic Information Services, which occurred in conjunction with the […]

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A Place and Event Based Context Model for Environmental Monitoring

Kate Beard and Melinda Neville. A Place and Event Based Context Model for Environmental Monitoring. Published in the Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Context-Awareness in Geographic Information Services, in conjunction with GIScience 2014, edited by Haosheng Huang, Jürgen Hahn, Christophe Claramunt, Tumasch Reichenbacher, CAGIS 2014, 23 September 2014, Vienna, Austria, 2014. Abstract: The importance of context awareness in […]

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Oriented Regions for Linearly Conceptualized Features

Joshua A. Lewis, Max J. Egenhofer. Oriented Regions for Linearly Conceptualized Features. Geographic Information Science, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8728, 2014, pp 333-348. Abstract: The typical phenomena in geographic space are 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional in nature, yet people often conceptualize some of them as 1-dimensional entities embedded in a 2-dimensional space—rivers have widths and depths, and […]

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Fields as a Generic Data Type for Big Spatial Data

Gilberto Camara, Max J. Egenhofer, Karine Ferreira, Pedro Andrade, Gilberto Queiroz, Alber Sanchez, Jim Jones, Lubia Vinhas. Fields as a Generic Data Type for Big Spatial Data. Geographic Information Science, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8728, 2014, pp 159-172. Abstract: This paper defines the Field data type for big spatial data. Most big spatial data sets provide […]

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Engineering Job Fair – Thursday, Oct 16th

If you have a major in engineering, engineering technologies or computer science and you’re looking for a job or an internship, then come to the University of Maine’s Engineering Job Fair next Thursday! At least 85 different organizations will be present looking for future interns and employees. For anyone looking to make the most out […]

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Surrounds in Partitions

M. Egenhofer and M. Dube. Surrounds in Partitions. ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2014 — 22nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Dallas, TX Y. Huang, M. Schneider, M. Gertz, J. Krumm, and J. Sankaranarayanan (eds.), (in press). Abstract: Surrounds is a topological relation that can exist between two regions or between collections of […]

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News Coverage of the VEMI Lab Open House

WABI TV 5, WVII ABC 7 and WFVX FOX Bangor News attended an open house for UMaine’s Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Lab last Wednesday. The open house was an opportunity for the public to learn about and even experience many of the projects taking place in the VEMI Lab, which houses Maine’s only virtual reality research facility. […]

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VEMI Lab Open House from 4-6 Today

The Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Lab is holding an open house in Carnegie Hall this afternoon from 4-6. This will be the VEMI lab’s second annual open house, and guests will have the opportunity to learn about the lab’s latest research and development advances. Last years event was very successful with a large turnout, […]

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Torsten Hahmann: Assistant Professor of Spatial Informatics

  Meet Torsten Hahmann, a new assistant professor at the University of Maine working in the spatial informatics program of the School of Computing and Information Science. Professor Hahmann began working at UMaine in November of 2013. In his position as assistant professor, he has several roles at the university: teaching courses, conducting research, and writing […]

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