40th Anniversary Celebration
We are inviting all CS alumni to join us during homecoming weekend to celebrate 40 years of teaching and research excellence. We have several exciting activities planned, read more about it here. (Oct 20-21, 2006)

Java Code Camp
We are excited to host the Pitt Java Users Group Code Camp on October 14th. This free, day-long event is designed as a series of intensive code related demos and technical sessions to guide the developer to the next skill level. More info (including how to register) can be found here. (Oct 14, 2006)

Pitt Awarded $2.4 Million by U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security to Develop Computing Technology

Lead researcher is CS professor Jan Wiebe. Read more about it in Pittsburgh Business Times. (Aug 7, 2006)

Technology Leadership Institute

The Dept's program for fostering computing interest in underreprented and disadvantaged high school students has received some media attention, including a story from the Associated Press (second story down). (July 25, 2006)

Software Engineer is the #1 of the Top 10 best jobs in America (according to Money Magazine, Apr 12, 2006)

Nevine M. AbouGhazaleh is one of the 19 students nationally to be awarded a 2006 Anita Borg Scholarship. Congrats Nevine! (Apr 7, 2006)

Pittsburgh Code Camp hosted in the Dept (Sat, Apr 8, 2006)

Daniel Mosse wins the 2006 Tina and David Bellet A&S Teaching Excellence Award. Congrats Daniel! (Mar 30, 2006)

CS Day 2006 - Feb 17
Our 6th Annual Computer Science Day was a big success! Read all about it, browse the photos, or view the detailed schedule of events.

Fifth Annual Distinguished Lecturers Series (Fall 2006)

• John Wilkes (Sep 8)
• David S. Johnson (Sep 29)
• Doug Tygar (Oct 6)
• Mike Franklin (Nov 3)
• Pradeep Khosla (Dec 1)

Faculty Recruiting
We are seeking applications for a full-time tenure-track position to begin in the Fall 2007. Applications must be completed by January 8, 2007 to ensure full consideration.  More

Pitt is #37 in the World
Newsweek International Ranks Pitt 10th Among U.S. Public Universities, 37th Among the Top 100 Global Universities   More

Spotlight: Center for Modeling Pulmonary Immunity (01/06/06)
Dr. Chrysanthis and Dr. Labrinidis will lead the bioinformatics effort in the recently established Center for Modeling Pulmonary Immunity. The center was established in September 2005, from a $9 million contract from NIH. More

Five graduate students selected to participate in Google Workshop (12/21/05)

Subrata Acharya, Nevine Abou Ghazaleh, Huiming Qu, Jie Xu, and Min Zhao got invited to participate in the 1st Google Workshop for Women Engineers in Mountain View, California on January 21/22, 2006.

Cosmin Rusu wins first prize at RTSS'05 (12/05/05)

Cosmin Rusu, a PhD student in the Department, has won the first prize in the simulated robot competition at the 26th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium.

Forbes.com Article About Automatic Sentiment Analysis (11/15/05)

What if there were a way to sort thousands of search results based on whether or not they're favorable? Prof. Jan Wiebe's research aims to create computer programs that can determine whether a document is positive or negative. More