Founded in 1966

The University of Pittsburgh hosts one of the oldest CS Departments in the world with research and teaching excellence since 1966. The CS Department covers many areas of research/teaching: AI, algorithms, databases, software engineering, systems and networks, data visualization/imaging, security/privacy, embedded systems, and natural language processing. Substantial research funding is provided by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and other federal agencies.

The CS Department is ranked 25th out of 473 ranked programs (19th with respect to gender diversity) in the most recent PhDs.org evaluation, and 34th out of 128 in the most recent (2011) National Research Council (NRC) evaluation, jumping up 9 positions since the 1995 NRC rankings.

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Spotlight

We are currently accepting applications for our middle and high school summer camps called the Technology Leadership Initiative. The camps will start on July 1st. Please see the website for more information! Hurry, space is limited!

News

Graduate students, Kelli Ireland, Mike Lipschultz, Tim Luciani, and John Wenskovitch ran a hands-on introduction to animation workshop for 18 high school students on Saturday May 11th. Students learned animation from a computer science perspective, fundamentals of computer graphics, and of animation design and implementation. [May 2013]

Congratualtions to undergraduate student Jesse Thomason on receiving an Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award (Male) 2013.[May 2013]

Senior Lecturer George Novacky's Introduction to Computer Programming with Python Course was the focus of the Datamation article entitled, "Back to the Classroom: An IT Veteran Seeks Technical Enlightenment". [May 2013]

On April 19th, our department hosted a viewing and panel discussion of the film entitled, "She++ the Documentary" which addressed women's representation in computer science. Panelists included CS Professors Dr. Hwa and Dr. Litman, Professor Jean Carr, head of Pitt's Women's Studies Department, Theresa Dean, Engineering Director of KIT Solutions, and Julie Pagano, Co-Founder of Girl Develop It Pittsburgh.[April 2013]

Congratulations to all the high school girls who were named the 2013 NCWIT Aspirations in Computing winners! Our department chaired and hosted the first ever local affiliate of this prestigious national award. [April 2013]

Professors Chrysanthis and Labrinidis were featured in a University Times article where they talk about the recently launched Pittsburgh DataWorks Initiative, their group's Big Data projects, and about the Big Data phenomenon in general.[April 2013]

Congratulations to PhD Student Neal Barcelo for being one of the eleven recipients this year of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in the area of algorithms/theory.[April 2013]

Outreach Coordinator Tasha Isenberg will be co-chairing the first ever Western and Central PA/West Virginia NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing. Aspirations in Computing is a talent development pipeline initiative designed to increase women's meaningful participation in computing careers by providing encouragement, visibility, community, leadership opportunities, scholarships, and internships to high potential technically inclined young women. The event will be on Saturday, April 13th. [March 2013]

Professors Chrysanthis and Labrinidis are members of the advisory board that has founded the Pittsburgh DataWorks initiative, whose aim is to bring together organizations and people working on "big data" throughout southwestern PA, with the ultimate goal of supporting ongoing initiatives and attracting big data talent and investments to the US’s “most livable city”.[March 2013]

Graduate student PJ Dillon and Professor Taieb Znati will be presenting their paper and poster entitled, “Towards an Architecture for Mobile Healthcare” at the 37th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) held in Clearwater, Florida from October 22-25 2012.[August 2012]

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Department Events

This Week's Talks and Events

13th Computer Science Day
March 22, 2013

Upcoming Events

05/28/2013 Lory Al Moakar (PhD Student) "Class-Based Continuous Query Scheduling in Data Stream Management Systems"

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