School of Computing and Information Science

Theories and Models of Indoor Space, Dissertation Advisors: Dr. M. Kate Beard-Tisdale and Dr. Michael F. Worboys When: Friday May 1, 3:00 pm Where: 336 Boardman Hall Abstract Although people’s daily lives are situated in both outdoor and indoor space, they actually spend most of their time in indoor environments. Traditional geospatial science has focused […]

Title: Towards the Continuous Spatio-Temporal Field Model for Sensor Data Streams When: Tuesday May 5 2015, 1:00 pm Where: 336 Boardman Hall Today, with the availability of inexpensive, wireless enabled sensor nodes, we encounter a massive amount of geo-referenced sensor streams, which are collected continuously, spatially dense, and in real-time. Continuous geographic phenomena such as […]

We invite all who are interested to the next DSE seminar to be presented by Dr. Silvia Nittel, Spatial Informatics, School of Computing and Information Science. The seminar will be Friday April 24 at 3:00 in room 336 Boardman Hall. From Sensor Streams to Fields Silvia Nittel, Spatial Informatics, School of Computing and Information Science […]

Congratulations to all those students from the VEMI Lab that participated in the Interactive Exhibition at the 2015 Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) Showcase on campus during the past week. Among the participants included: Sam Gates (Computer Science) “Multi-Tag Radio Frequency Indication for use in Indoor Positional Tracking Systems” [jointly awarded 1st prize for interactive […]

With successful defense of his PhD dissertation on April 7th, James Campbell becomes the 50th PhD granted from the University of Maine by the spatial informatics faculty. Pursuing a law and policy line of inquiry, his research program addressed “Toward a Commons of Geographic Data.” Members of his committee included Professor Harlan Onsrud, major advisor, […]

Congratulations to all students in the School that participated in the 2015 Graduate Academic Exposition on April 2 and 3. POSTER PRESENTATIONS included: • Matt Dube, The Degradation of Spatial Information through Composition • Joshua Lewis, Spatio-Temporal Scenes • Hari Palani, Touch-Screen Psychophysics: towards a better accessibility solution for visually-impaired people • Shirly Stephen, Integrating […]

Dr. Torsten Hahmann recently co-chaired the track “Beyond Semantic Sensor Network Ontologies” of the 2015 Ontology Summit entitled the “Internet of Things: Towards Smart Networked Systems and Societies”. The recordings of the sessions are now available at http://ontolog-02.cim3.net/wiki/ConferenceCall_2015_03_05 and http://ontolog-02.cim3.net/wiki/ConferenceCall_2015_01_29. (The server is unreliable so keep checking back). The Summit will culminate in a 2 […]

James Fastook recently participated in the 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2015/) with three papers relating to processes on Mars: 1) Late Noachian Icy Highlands: Scenarios for Top-down Melting and Volumes of Meltwater 2) Late Noachian Icy Highlands: Spatial Distribution of Top-down Melting and Volumes of Meltwater for Single-year Warming Events 3) Sources of […]

Hello from the VEMI Lab, Just a quick note about this past weekend: The VEMI Lab participated in the inaugural Maine Science Festival on March 21st & 22nd at the Cross Center.  Interest in the lab was way beyond expectation. We had around 4500 people tour our room, with the line often extending over 60 […]

Computer Science masters student, Sonia Rode, was co-author of a journal article with Professor Roy Turner and a USM student. The article citation is: CoDA: Distributed, context-based organization and reorganization of multi-AUV systems [R. Turner, S. Rode, and D. Gagne], Journal of Unmanned System Technology [JUST], vol. 2 no. 1, pp. 1–9, 2014.).  The research […]