Congratulations to our own Dr. Nicholas Giudice, who was recently elected to the Board of Directors for The Iris Network. The Iris Network is a leading nonprofit organization that is advancing policy, research, and training to assist blind and visually impaired people in Maine and across the nation. They specialize in helping visually impaired people attain independence, […]

On February 23rd, SCIS faculty and students affiliated with the Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Lab wil be traveling to Lincoln Academy in Newcastle. The group will be speaking to students about math and science, the VEMI lab, and even exhibiting some of the exciting work that the lab has been doing in virtual reality. This […]

Unlike any time before, society is at risk of cyber-attacks and lives under the oppressive threat of information being stolen with a “click.” The emerging threats against the electric grid and other elements of the country’s Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) have created an ever-increasing need for men and women to defend it. The […]

On Wednesday, February 3rd, students are invited to attend the 2016 UMaine Career Fair, which will be in the New Balance Recreation Center from 10 am to 3 pm. Open to all UMaine undergraduate and graduate students, this event will feature 140 businesses, universities, and graduate programs from Maine and around the country. Many of […]

On December 10th, undergraduate and graduate computer science students were able to demonstrate their creativity and programming ability in a fun an exciting way, through gaming. Students in COS 125 (Introduction to Problem Solving Using Computer Programming), COS 312 (An Introduction to Video Game Programming with the Unity Game Engine), and COS 598 (Advanced Game […]

Recently, Professor Roy Turner presented three papers at CONTEXT’15 (International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context) conference in Larnaca, Cyprus, which was held on November 2-6. In addition to the papers that were presented, Professor Turner also chaired a panel at the conference. The first paper was entitled ” Modeling erroneous human behavior: […]

In the Spring 2015 semester, several Ph.D. candidates successfully presented and defended their dissertations, including Liping Yang, Qinghan Liang, Francis Neville, and Lisa Walton. The Abstracts of these dissertations are below, and full texts are available for review in written form through the School of Computing and Information Science, and will soon be available for download at http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/.   “Theories […]

Dr. Roy Turner will be presenting three papers co-authored with others within the School of Computing and Information Science at the Ninth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT’15) in Cyprus in early November. These papers include: Modeling erroneous human behavior: A context-driven approach (Chris Wilson and Roy M. Turner) Representing and […]

Dr. Torsten Hahmann (Link ) co-organized the Joint Ontology Workshops held at the premier Artificial Intelligence conference, IJCAI, recently held in Buenos Aires. The four workshops included: Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO) Formal Ontologies for Artificial Intelligence (FOfAI) Ontologies and logic programming for query answering Workshop on Belief Change and Non Monotonic Reasoning in Ontologies and […]

University of Maine students interested in computing and IT internships and jobs next summer are invited to a Project>Login networking reception, 4–6 p.m. Oct. 15, Bangor Room, Memorial Union. The reception is an opportunity for students in computer science and computer engineering to talk with IT professionals and recruiters from Maine companies. It is sponsored […]