Digital Curation webinar focuses on saving the Web As more of our work and entertainment moves online, the challenge of preserving websites and social media becomes increasingly urgent. In an interactive discussion on 17 April 2020 entitled “Web Archiving for Everyone,” the latest guest speaker in UMaine’s Digital Curation program presents new tools and techniques […]
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The following new courses are scheduled to be offered in Fall 2020. Please check the prerequisites listed below and check with your graduate advisor to ensure they will be accepted on your graduate program of study. All of these 598 courses are proposed as permanent courses and are undergoing campus review at the current time […]
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Professor Harlan Onsrud, School of Computing and Information Science, and Dr. James Campbell, UMaine Alumnus, recently published an article titled Being Human in an Algorithmically Controlled World in the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. In their introduction to a special issue on Transdisciplinary Opportunities in the Geospatial Humanities, the guest editors Alberto Giordano, […]
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Still Water Co-director Joline Blais was part of the team that helped organize the 2019 America East Hackathon, which focused on developing inexpensive apps and systems to sustain local farmers.
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New Media capstone students have developed capstone projects reflecting and extending a range of skills learned in the program including web and mobile app development, AR and VR applications, interactive educational video, and 3D design and printing of accessibility devices. Many of our students are working with outside clients and/or field testing new software platforms. […]
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Are you interested in how the Congressional gerrymandering crisis might be addressed? If so, join us at a presentation on pioneering work being accomplished by University of Maine System researchers to guide State legislatures and the courts towards far more defensible redistricting results. When: Wednesday, March 11, 3:30-4:30 pm Where: Rm 140 Bennett Hall , University […]
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Translating Code to Privacy Statements by Vijayanta Jain (Advisor: Sepideh Ghanavati) 9 March 2020, 12 noon, 336 Boardman Hall Open to the campus community. Bring your lunch. Abstract: The growing number of mobile applications provide users with a variety of functionality to help them with their daily lives. However, these applications also collect and process […]
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Electrical Impedance Tomography-Based Food Recognition to Facilitate Human-Food Interaction Research by Chamath Amarasinghe (Advisor: Nimesha Ranasinghe) 19 Feb 2020, 12 noon, 326 Boardman Hall Open to the campus community. Bring your lunch. Abstract: Recognizing the food and determining their various properties (e.g., ripeness and nutrient content) using non-visual methods are essential to develop novel digital […]
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Evaluating Users’ Pleasure through Virtual and Augmented Flavor Sensations by Meetha James 10 Feb 2020, 12 noon, 326 Boardman Hall Open to the public and campus community. Bring your lunch. Abstract: Flavors of food and beverages are closely associated with a lot of our day-to-day activities. However, in HCI research, little is known about the […]
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In December 2019, Professor Max Egenhofer completed the supervision of his 18th PhD at the University of Maine. This puts him at the top of current UMaine faculty with respect to number of PhDs supervised to completion. His entire list of PhDs supervised can be found in the Mathematics Genealogy Project at https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=139193. His PhDs […]
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