School News

Master’s Project Presentation on Events

Event Viewer – A platform for the exploration and visualization of events Project Presentation by  Tega Dibbie,  Thursday May 11 at 1pm in Room 336 Boardman Hall Abstract The need for exploratory spatial and temporal data analysis tools has increased with the growth of sensor systems that produce large data sets combining spatial, temporal, and […]

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Interested in an Internship next Summer within the Intelligence Community?

If you have an interest in computer science, spatial technologies and/or cybersecurity, you might be interested in a summer internship with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) located outside of Washington, D.C. If you are entering your second year or higher, now is the time to apply for NEXT summer. Because we have been designated […]

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Conveying Topographic Information with 3d Printed Models and Tactile Maps

Please join Raymond (RJ) Perry Thurs May 11 at 2:00 in Boardman 336 for his Masters project talk entitled: CONVEYING TOPOGRAPHIC INFORMATION WITH 3D PRINTED MODELS AND TACTILE MAPS Abstract Background: Blind and Visually Impaired (BVI) spatial learning research is mostly focused on indoor learning and cityscape learning. Little significant research has been conducted regarding […]

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Spatial Relations and Natural-Language Indoor Scenes

Stacy Doore will defend her PhD dissertation Thursday April 27 at 12 in room 336 Boardman Hall. All are invited to attend. Abstract: SPATIAL RELATIONS AND NATURAL-LANGUAGE SEMANTICS FOR INDOOR SCENES Over the past 15 years, there have been increased efforts to represent and communicate spatial information about entities within indoor environments. Automated annotation of […]

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DEMO DAY for Advanced Video Game Programming

COS498 Advanced Video Game Programming with Unity Team Members: Al Bakir, Arabatzis, Butler, Caron, Christman, Dignan, Guo,m Herrschaft, Norman, O’Brien, Owen, Owens, Palmeter, Pettegrow, Rasmussen, Scontras, Segee, Segee, Shin, Thacker, Vanidestine, Zhao Will demonstrate their games 3:30 – 5:00 PM, Thursday, May 4th in Room 120 Neville Hall Games include: Several VR games, Real-Time Strategy […]

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NGA/USGS Center of Academic Excellence Site Visit Agenda

All students and faculty are invited to attend the Center of Academic Excellence in Geospatial Sciences site visit presentations that start at 1:30 pm on Wednesday Oct 26 in Room 336 Boardman Hall. We look forward to seeing you there. NGA/USGS Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) Site Visit Agenda October 26 2016 1:30 Introductions and […]

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Spatial and More Seminar Series

Please place the following presentations on your calendar for the remainder of the fall semester. Spatial and More Seminar Series Sponsored by NCGIA October 19: 12:00 336 Boardman Hall Chris Bennet, PhD student in Spatial Information Science and Engineering Evaluating and Alleviating Cognitive Map Decay for Older Adult Navigators through the use of Virtual Reality […]

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VEMI Lab Open House on Sept 21 from 4-6

The VEMI (Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction) Lab is hosting its annual Open House on September 21st from 4-6PM. We are located in Carnegie Hall and would like to extend an invitation to all (students, faculty, friends, family, and children) who would like come by and check out the new projects we have been working […]

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Two PhDs Conferred by SCIS

The School of Information and Computing Science is proud to announce that on Saturday, May 14th, the school will be conferring the title of PhD to two students. Both Hengshan Li and Matthew Dube have worked very diligently on their dissertations, and have been hired to exciting new jobs after graduation. The following is a description […]

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SCIS Students Present at Research Symposium

On April 27th, three students from the School of Computing and Information Science presented their cutting edge research at the 2016 Graduate and Undergraduate Research Symposium at the Cross Insurance Arena in Bangor, Maine. These students include HariPrasath Palani, Stacy Doore, and Christopher Bennett. The abstracts from their respective research projects may be found below. […]

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