School of Computing and Information Science

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

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, […]

Presentation: Geospatial Business Intelligence and Big GeoData Who: Dr. Yvan Bedard, Professor, Laval University (and UMaine alumnus) <http://yvanbedard.scg.ulaval.ca/?lang=en> When: Noon, Thursday, September 18 Where: Room 336 Boardman Hall Please come and discuss with Yvan his perspectives and approaches for addressing big geodata challenges.

CIS is delighted to welcome five new cooperating professors. David Hiebeler and Andre Khalil join us from from Department of Mathematics, and Bruce Segee and Yifeng Zhu from Electrical and Computing Engineering. This provides yet more proof that CIS is the hub of things computational at Orono.

Software Engineer is the new number one Best Job of 2011, ousting Mathematician from top spot. Also highly placed is Computer Systems Analyst. Lumberjack has climbed to 3rd worst from the bottom.

The opening of the School of Computer Science was reported in the University of Maine news.