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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]
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A $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation EPSCoR program will fund a five-year initiative that aims to revolutionize environmental monitoring, ecological understanding and sustainability of coastal ecosystems. Dr. Kate Beard-Tisdale is among the four Co-Principal Investigators leading the project which additionally include Dr. David Emerson, Dr. Michael Kinnison, and Dr. Heather Leslie while […]
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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, […]
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NSF has awarded a multi-disciplinary research team involving the University of Cinncinati, North Carolina State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Purdue University, and the University of Maine a $1,000,000 grant to develop “The Urban Flooding Open Knowledge Network” to improve prediction, risk analysis and mitigation of flooding in urban areas. The open knowledge […]
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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 […]
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Led by Principal Investigator Dr. Nicholas Giudice, and Co-PI Dr. Richard Corey, the VEMI Lab recently received a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant to study self-driving vehicles. A primary goal of the research is to make transportation of the future more accessible, usable and trustworthy. This innovative University of Maine project is designed to improve […]
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Iranga Subasinghe, a third-year Ph.D. student in Spatial Information Science and Engineering, served as lead author on a research article recently published in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science in a special issue on “Real-time GIS for Smart Cities.” The research was accomplished through a team effort among personnel in the UMaine School of […]
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