Congratulations to Jayant Sharma! Jayant acquired his PhD in Spatial Information Science and Engineering here at the University of Maine. Following is the announcement as distributed at Oracle: It is my pleasure to tell you that Jayant Sharma has been promoted to Senior Director, Product Management. This is well-earned and is in recognition of his […]

Event Viewer – A platform for the exploration and visualization of events Project Presentation by  Tega Dibbie,  Thursday May 11 at 1pm in Room 336 Boardman Hall Abstract The need for exploratory spatial and temporal data analysis tools has increased with the growth of sensor systems that produce large data sets combining spatial, temporal, and […]

If you have an interest in computer science, spatial technologies and/or cybersecurity, you might be interested in a summer internship with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) located outside of Washington, D.C. If you are entering your second year or higher, now is the time to apply for NEXT summer. Because we have been designated […]

Please join Raymond (RJ) Perry Thurs May 11 at 2:00 in Boardman 336 for his Masters project talk entitled: CONVEYING TOPOGRAPHIC INFORMATION WITH 3D PRINTED MODELS AND TACTILE MAPS Abstract Background: Blind and Visually Impaired (BVI) spatial learning research is mostly focused on indoor learning and cityscape learning. Little significant research has been conducted regarding […]

Stacy Doore will defend her PhD dissertation Thursday April 27 at 12 in room 336 Boardman Hall. All are invited to attend. Abstract: SPATIAL RELATIONS AND NATURAL-LANGUAGE SEMANTICS FOR INDOOR SCENES Over the past 15 years, there have been increased efforts to represent and communicate spatial information about entities within indoor environments. Automated annotation of […]

COS498 Advanced Video Game Programming with Unity Team Members: Al Bakir, Arabatzis, Butler, Caron, Christman, Dignan, Guo,m Herrschaft, Norman, O’Brien, Owen, Owens, Palmeter, Pettegrow, Rasmussen, Scontras, Segee, Segee, Shin, Thacker, Vanidestine, Zhao Will demonstrate their games 3:30 – 5:00 PM, Thursday, May 4th in Room 120 Neville Hall Games include: Several VR games, Real-Time Strategy […]

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.