Kate Beard has been selected as the 25th UCGIS Fellow. Congratulations, Kate! http://www.ucgis.org/kate-beard

From UMaine to a Global Law Practice: Finding Opportunity in a Changing World Jeff Johnson, BS ’93, MS ’95 April 28, 2017 at 12 noon at the Foster Center for Student Innovation Jeff Johnson (BS ’93, MS ’95) is Co-Chair of the Technology Transactions and Licensing practice at WilmerHale, a global law firm with ~1000 attorneys worldwide.  […]

SEEKING DIRECTOR FOR SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCE Position Title: Director of the School of Computing and Information Science (id:40004) Department: School of Computing and Information Sciences Bargaining Unit: Nonrep Faculty # of Months: 9 Purpose: The University of Maine School of Computing and Information Science seeks applicants for a senior faculty position as […]

Chris Dorr successfully defended his Ph.D thesis last Friday. Congrats Dr. Dorr! In his thesis work he demonstrated that the OPRA theory which his advisor Dr. Reinhard Moratz developed in the last decade is sufficient to successfully attack the notoriously difficult problem of shape similarity.

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 […]

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 […]

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.  

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 […]

The VEMI Lab is pleased to announce that four lab-authored papers were accepted to the 2016 HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) International Conference, to be held in Toronto this upcoming July. Lead authors are VEMI graduate students Christopher Bennett, Hari Palani, Hengshan Li, and R.J. Perry. Citations for the papers are as follows: Bennett, C.R., Corey, R.R., […]

In anticipation of NSF funding for the project “Empowering Multi-Conceptual Spatial Reasoning with a Repository of Qualitative and Quantitative Spatial Ontologies”, Professor Hahmann is looking for two graduate students (at the Master or PhD level in Spatial Information Science and Engineering or in Computer Science) to work with him on this project. The students will […]