On Wednesday, February 3rd, students are invited to attend the 2016 UMaine Career Fair, which will be in the New Balance Recreation Center from 10 am to 3 pm. Open to all UMaine undergraduate and graduate students, this event will feature 140 businesses, universities, and graduate programs from Maine and around the country. Many of […]
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If you can see it, touch it, hold it, or imagine it, you can bet there’s a computer engineering out there someplace trying to figure out how to make it more useful. Check out this recent article in the Portland Press Harald, highlighting an invention by three Maine brothers: Eric, Aron, and Evan Semle. Aron […]
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On December 10th, undergraduate and graduate computer science students were able to demonstrate their creativity and programming ability in a fun an exciting way, through gaming. Students in COS 125 (Introduction to Problem Solving Using Computer Programming), COS 312 (An Introduction to Video Game Programming with the Unity Game Engine), and COS 598 (Advanced Game […]
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Recently, Professor Roy Turner presented three papers at CONTEXT’15 (International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context) conference in Larnaca, Cyprus, which was held on November 2-6. In addition to the papers that were presented, Professor Turner also chaired a panel at the conference. The first paper was entitled ” Modeling erroneous human behavior: […]
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Over the years, the University of Maine School of Computing and Information Science (SCIS) has become a major player in the fields of computer science and spatial informatics. Through dozens of published papers, conference presentations, books, research projects, and major grants, UMaine has established itself as a pivotal player in academia around the world. The […]
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From October 12-16, the School of Information and Computing Science at the University of Maine sent several researchers to COSIT, one of the most significant conferences in the world for spatial information theory. Established in 1993 and only held every two years, COSIT seeks to bring together scientists from different disciplines for an intensive and […]
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During the Summer of 2016 the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology (LASST) at the University of Maine will offer the opportunity for a limited number of highly qualified undergraduate students to participate in research under the guidance of various faculty in the area of sensor science and […]
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Matt Dube (Ph.D. Candidate in Spatial Information Science and Engineering in the School of Computing and Information Science) has had a very busy and successful semester. He was recently Faculty of the Month for the month of September from the sisters of the Maine Alpha Chapter of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Matt was recognized for […]
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In the Spring 2015 semester, several Ph.D. candidates successfully presented and defended their dissertations, including Liping Yang, Qinghan Liang, Francis Neville, and Lisa Walton. The Abstracts of these dissertations are below, and full texts are available for review in written form through the School of Computing and Information Science, and will soon be available for download at http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/. “Theories […]
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Dr. Roy Turner will be presenting three papers co-authored with others within the School of Computing and Information Science at the Ninth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT’15) in Cyprus in early November. These papers include: Modeling erroneous human behavior: A context-driven approach (Chris Wilson and Roy M. Turner) Representing and […]
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