The IEEE IDAACS (Intelligent Data Acquisition & Advanced Computing Systems) conference is being held this year from September 24-26 in Warsaw Poland and will feature a Special Stream in Cyber Security. The stream is being co-organized by Prof. George Markowsky, University of Maine and Prof. Igor Kotenko, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics & Automation, Russian […]

Twenty years ago, the first International Early-Career Scholars Summer Institutes in Geographic Information was hosted by NCGIA here in Maine. A follow-on meeting was held in Berlin Germany the next year. These institutes were funded at the time by NSF and the European Science Foundation (ESF). To mark the anniversary, participants in those first two […]

Geospatial Journals – For a quick overview of geospatial journals available through the electronic resources of Fogler Library, check out the web page at https://spatial.umaine.edu/geospatialjournals/ Use your student or faculty ID at http://library.umaine.edu/ to search for articles of interest in any of the journals and download the full text articles. Some resources are open to the […]

Under the new EPSCoR SEANET – http://umaine.edu/epscor/maine-epscor-programs/seanet/ project we are seeking prospective students with a master’s degree in geographic information science, computer or information science, or ecology and environmental science with GIS experience, to pursue a Ph.D. and research on approaches to heterogeneous data and model integration, spatio- temporal context modeling, or spatio-temporal decision support […]

For paid internship opportunities for CS students with Maine companies during the summer or the semester, see: http://projectlogin.com/inventory-paid-computing-and-it-internships-maine

UMaine CyberSecurity Club Contact: info@cybersecurity.maine.edu Website: cybersecurity.maine.edu Meeting times: Monday & Wednesday @ 6:00pm and Saturday @ 10:00am Meeting place: 224 East Annex (White building next to Neville) The University of Maine CyberSecurity Club is a group of cyber security researchers and enthusiasts that meet several times a week. We have guest speakers from the […]

As has been usual practice in the past, the COS 125 class will have its dress rehearsal for their Game Exhibition on Tuesday 12/9 from 11:15 am to 12:15 pm in the Soderberg Center located in Jenness Hall at the University of Maine. At the dress rehearsal we have need of volunteers who play the […]

Now accepting applications for U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 2015 HS-STEM Summer Internships The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sponsors a 10-week summer internship program for undergraduate and graduate students majoring in homeland security related science, technology, engineering and mathematics (HS-STEM) Disciplines. The program provides students with quality research experiences at federal research […]

Friday, November 14, 2014, 1 PM Room 140 Little Hall University of Maine This talk is part of a series of talks presented by the Cybersecurity Lab of the School of Computing and Information Science Cybersecurity Teams and Human Factors (Team Dynamics) – It’s Not Just About the Digits Mr. W. Vince Quintana Principal Engineer, […]

November 12, 204, 3:30-4:20 PM Hill Auditorium, Barrows HallSnacks at 3:15 PM The Not-So-Golden Ratio Prof. George Markowsky School of Computing and Information Science University of Maine The Golden Ratio, also called by different authors the Golden Section, Golden Number, Golden Mean, Divine Proportion, and division in extreme and mean ratios, has captured the popular […]