School of Computing and Information Science

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. […]

The IEEE IDAACS (Intelligent Data Acquisition & Advanced Computing Systems) conference is being held this year from September 24-26 in Warsaw Poland and will feature a Special Stream in Cyber Security. The stream is being co-organized by Prof. George Markowsky, University of Maine and Prof. Igor Kotenko, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics & Automation, Russian […]

Twenty years ago, the first International Early-Career Scholars Summer Institutes in Geographic Information was hosted by NCGIA here in Maine. A follow-on meeting was held in Berlin Germany the next year. These institutes were funded at the time by NSF and the European Science Foundation (ESF). To mark the anniversary, participants in those first two […]