School News

Dr. Turner Reappointed to Editorial Board of Modeling and Using Context

Computer Science faculty member Roy Turner has just been reappointed as a member of the editorial board for the journal Modeling and Using Context (iSTE OpenScience, publisher).  This interdisciplinary journal is a forum for researchers interested in the role of context in fields such as artificial intelligence, context-aware systems, ubiquitous computing, psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, sociology, […]

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Project Initiation on Deep Learning in Context

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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Publication of Real-time Mapping of Natural Disasters using Citizen Update Streams

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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Graduate Student Shirley Stephen Presents at 14th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory

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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Dr. Silvia Nittel joins Editorial Board of International Journal of Geo-Information

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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Opening for Assistant Professor in Computer Science

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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Opening for Long-Term Lecturer in Computer Science

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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SCIS welcomes 4 new professors, including new director, Penny Rheingans

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 featured in IEEE Spectrum Magazine

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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