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 […]

Data Science and Engineering Seminar  Friday March 20, 1:00 pm, 336 Boardman Hall A Future History of Geographic Information Science Max J. Egenhofer School of Computing and Information Science and National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis University of Maine Orono, ME 04469-5711, USA max@spatial.maine.edu http://www.spatial.maine.edu/~max/ This talk is an abridged version of the keynote address at […]

Professors Max Egenhofer and Silvia Nittel have been appointed to the editorial board of the new journal Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards. Check out the new journal at http://www.opengeospatialdata.com

Dustin Sleight, a student working at the school’s VEMI Lab (http://www.vemilab.us/), and two additional mechanical engineering students, have successfully reached their KickStarter goal for developing and building a “six degrees of freedom” motion platform to provide real movement in virtual environments in the lab. See the kickstarter page at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1072290093/virtual-reality-motion-platform?ref=category_location. This is great capstone project. […]

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