People
- Director:
- Roy M. Turner, Associate Professor of Computer Science, School of Computing and Information Science, University of Maine
- Recent PhD students:
Chris Wilson (2023): Context-Driven Behavior: A Framework for Improving Behavior in Context-Aware Agents
Zac Hutchinson (2023): Artificial Dendritic Neuron: A Model of Computation and Learning Algorithm
Larry Whitsel (2013): A Context-Based Approach to Detecting Miscreant Agent Behavior in Open Multiagent Systems
James H. Lawton (2005, from UNH, co-advised with Elise H. Turner): Multi-Agent Opportunism
- Recent MS graduates:
Alexander Revello (2021): Counting and Classifying the Seabirds of Maine from Drone Imagery
Sonia Rode (2016): Representing and Communicating Context in Multiagent Systems
Zachary L. Schiller (2015): Email Similarity and Automatic Reply Generation Using Statistical Topic Modeling and Machine Learning
Graham Morehead (2014, co-advised by James Wilson, School of Marine Sciences): A Complex-Systems Approach to Simulating the Sea Urchin Ecology
Adi Levy Conlogue (2013, co-advised by Natasha Speer, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics; Master of Science and Technology): Students’ Understanding of Recursion: When Do They Use It and Why?
James Brawn (2012): An AUV Simulator for Incorporating Physical Feedback
Jaimi Allen (2010): Teaching Programming in Elementary School
- Affiliated personnel:
Larry Whitsel, PhD, Advanced Computing Group, UMaine (ret.)
Steven G. Chappell, Software Systems Engineer (ret.), the Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute
- In memoriam:
Elise H. Turner, PhD (1959-2008). Co-director of MaineSAIL, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Chair of the Department of Computer Science, and Roy’s wife.
D.Richard Blidberg (1945-2019). Director of the Marine Systems Engineering Lab (MSEL; at UNH and later University), director of the Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute (AUSI; Lee, NH), founder of the Autonomous Undersea Vehicle Applications Center (AUVAC; Lee, NH), long time affiliate of MaineSAIL, and mentor and good friend to Roy and Elise.