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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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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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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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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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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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Dr. Torsten Hahmann from the School of Computing and Information Science a $175,000 research grant for the project “Empowering Multi-Conceptual Spatial Reasoning with a Repository of Qualitative and Quantitative Spatial Ontologies”. “Just over the hill” or “downstream” are phrases that are commonly used by people to communicate location […]
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Interested in cyber security? Join the UMaine Cyber Security Club! There will be a free barbecue on Friday, April 22nd in the DTAV/Patch quad. For more information, visit the club’s event page here.
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The VEMI lab is proud to announce that Dr. Giudice and doctoral candidate Chris Bennett recently had an article accepted for publication in Experimental Aging Research. Check out their abstract below, and be sure to congratulate them if you see them! — Giudice, N.A., Bennett, C.R., Klatzky, R.L., and Loomis, J.M. (accepted). Updating of haptic arrays across […]
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Recently, the University of Maine chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity toured Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maine. While VEMI and SCIS has become well known for their STEM outreach in the community, this time they looked inward to give a help the University of Maine Community. The students […]
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This semester’s undergraduate student spotlight goes to Greg Kritzman, a senior in Computer Science here at the School of Computing and Information Science. I caught up with Greg to talk school, capstone, and even a little parkour. J- So tell me a bit about yourself. What do you like to do for fun? Greg- I […]
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