School of Computing and Information Science

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Monday, October 6th there will be a talk by Nicholas Giudice, Ph.D. titled Using Virtual Reality as a Tool for Improving Wind Energy Visualization Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Location: 107 Norman Smith Hall Sponsored by the Mitchell Center