MaineSAIL, the Maine Software Agents/AI Lab directed by Prof. Roy Turner, has long focused on the role context and contextual knowledge plays in intelligent agents’ behavior. Recently, a project has begun to apply insights gained over the years to deep learning (neural network) agents. This project builds on preliminary work done almost two decades ago […]
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Iranga Subasinghe, a third-year Ph.D. student in Spatial Information Science and Engineering, served as lead author on a research article recently published in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science in a special issue on “Real-time GIS for Smart Cities.” The research was accomplished through a team effort among personnel in the UMaine School of […]
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On Sept 12, Shirly Stephen, PhD student in the Spatial Information Science and Engineering program at UMaine, presented the paper “Formal Qualitative Spatial Augmentation of the Simple Feature Access Model” in Regensburg, Germany at the 14th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory. The paper develops an approach for storing and integrating data from spatial expressions […]
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The United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN‐GGIM) addresses global challenges regarding the use of geospatial information and serves as a body for global policymaking in the field of geospatial information management. At a forum on August 5, 2019 at the United Nations in New York prior to the opening of […]
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Dr. Silvia Nittel, Associate Professor of Spatial Informatics in the School of Computing and Information Science was recently invited to join the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Geo-Information. This journal is an international peer-reviewed open access journal on geo-information and is an official journal of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing […]
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Position Title: Assistant Professor in Computer Science (id:52780) Campus: Orono Department: School of Computing and Information Sciences – SCIS Bargaining Unit: AFUM Location: Orono, ME Statement of the Job: The University of Maine School of Computing and Information Science seeks applicants for a tenure-track, academic-year Assistant Professor position, with an anticipated start date of September […]
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LECTURER IN COMPUTER SCIENCE University of Maine The University of Maine School of Computing and Information Science (SCIS) seeks applicants for a teaching faculty position at the rank of lecturer, with an anticipated start date of September 1, 2019. Please consult the full announcement.
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With the beginning of the Fall 2018 semester, the School of Computing and Information Science is pleased to announce that we have welcomed 4 new colleagues to our faculty. Dr. Penny Rheingans joins us from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and assumes the role of Director of the School of Computing and Information Science. She […]
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Dr. Ranasinghe’s first publication as a faculty member of the School of Computing and Information Science was featured in the IEEE Spectrum magazine in August 2018. The article provides a great introduction to his new lab, the Spatial Informatics MIM Lab (Multisensory Interactive Media Lab)
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Coding and understanding of basic programming techniques are essential for students regardless of their field of studies. This course is tailored for graduate students with little to no previous programming experience that have a need for practical programming skills. Firstly, this course will introduce basic programming concepts (variables, conditions, loops, data structures, etc.), and the […]
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