2020 marks the 30th year that the University of Maine has been conveying PhDs in Spatial Information Science and Engineering (and the degree’s predecessor, the PhD in Surveying Engineering). During that timeframe, 62 students have graduated and entered highly successful careers. Over half of them work or worked in academia at such institutions as Penn […]
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Joshua A. Lewis successfully completed all requirements for his PhD in Spatial Information Science and Engineering and received his doctoral degree in December 2019. Josh is the 62nd student who has received a PhD in Spatial Information Science and Engineering (or its predecessor, the PhD in Surveying Engineering) at the University of Maine. He graduated […]
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Please join us with your bag lunch in Room 336 Boardman Hall on Monday January 27 for a scintillating presentation by our very own Dr. Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh. Hope to see you then! Title: Efficient memory-usage techniques in deep neural networks via a graph-based approach Abstract: Memory consumption is an important aspect of artificial neural […]
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The Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NECCDC – http://neccdl.org/neccdc) will be hosted at UMaine in Orono Maine March 20-22, 2020. Ten student teams from the Northeast will compete to test their ability to operate, secure, manage, and maintain a corporate network. A virtual qualifying round will be held in late January to determine the schools […]
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Professor Kate Beard is PI on a grant from NSF to advance careers of women in the Geospatial Sciences. The grant is referred to as TRELIS (Training and Retaining Leaders in STEM – Geospatial Sciences (TRELIS-GS) to convey the concept of a human capital trellis or scaffold of support, and represent the reality of nonlinear career trajectories that move […]
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Perhaps you may be interested in some little known facts about Spatial Informatics at the University of Maine.. Did you know that … – Spatial Informatics faculty members affiliated with the UMaine Spatial Data Science Institute currently serve as PI or Co-PI on over $30,185,000 of active externally funded research projects. These projects involve a […]
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Intelligent in its assessment for 2020 ranks the University of Maine online Master’s in Information Systems degree program as one of the best in the nation. It ranks the program at number 16 out of 402 similar online education programs compared. Both the UMaine online MS in Information Systems and the online Graduate Certificate in […]
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Dr. Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh is lead author on a research article recently published in the journal Entropy titled Convergence Rates for Empirical Estimation of Binary Classification Bounds. Abstract Bounding the best achievable error probability for binary classification problems is relevant to many applications including machine learning, signal processing, and information theory. Many bounds on the […]
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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: Tuesday Dec. 3 at noon, Where: Hill Auditorium, 165 Barrows Hall (ESRB), University […]
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New Media senior capstone students are developing two-semester capstone projects reflecting and extending a range of skills learned in the academic program. Among the skills and results displayed through the projects include web and mobile application development, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) applications, interactive educational videos, and 3D design and printing of accessibility […]
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