John Partridge, CEO of Aroki Systems, will speak on “My Career in Software: A Front Row View of Exponential Innovation.” The talk will be held Tuesday October 8, 12:30-1:45 pm in Neville Hall 116. He will address rules of thumb for making career decisions in the software industry. Aroki Systems is commercializing new cryptography technology […]

Dr. Panagiotis Partsinevelos from the Technical University of Crete will make this presentation at Noon, Friday October 4 in Room 336 Boardman Hall, Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) have become increasingly popular in a variety of geospatial applications. Academia and the global market are overwhelmed with often repetitive UAS solutions, even though there are many unresolved […]

Brian C Toner, PhD candidate in Computer Science, will defend his dissertation on Wednesday, 2 October 2019 in  336 Boardman at noon. The dissertation is titled “A Longitudinal Study of Mammograms Utilizing the Automated Wavelet Transform.” Co-advisors are Dr. James Fastook and Dr. Andre Khalil. For more details, see the defense announcement.

Dr. Salimeh Yasaei-Sekeh from the School of Computing and Information Science (SCIS) will make a presentation sponsored by the IEEE COM/CS Maine Chapter  on Friday October 25, 2019 at 4pm in Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall, University of Maine. Her talk is titled Online Adaptation for Big Streaming Data: From Machine Learning Techniques to Applications. For […]

Computer Science faculty member Roy Turner has just been reappointed as a member of the editorial board for the journal Modeling and Using Context (iSTE OpenScience, publisher).  This interdisciplinary journal is a forum for researchers interested in the role of context in fields such as artificial intelligence, context-aware systems, ubiquitous computing, psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, sociology, […]

MaineSAIL, the Maine Software Agents/AI Lab directed by Prof. Roy Turner, has long focused on the role context and contextual knowledge plays in intelligent agents’ behavior.  Recently, a project has begun to apply insights gained over the years to deep learning (neural network) agents.  This project builds on preliminary work done almost two decades ago […]

The United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN‐GGIM) addresses global challenges regarding the use of geospatial information and serves as a body for global policymaking in the field of geospatial information management. At a forum on August 5, 2019 at the United Nations in New York prior to the opening of […]

Dr. Silvia Nittel, Associate Professor of Spatial Informatics in the School of Computing and Information Science was recently invited to join the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Geo-Information. This journal is an international peer-reviewed open access journal on geo-information and is an official journal of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing […]