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]

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 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]

PhD student Jiannan Ouyang and Professor Jack Lange will be presenting their paper entitled, "Preemptable Ticket Spinlocks: Improving Consolidated Performance in the Cloud" at the Ninth Annual International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE 2013) in Houston, Texas on March 16-17 2013. [March 2013]

Graduate student Ryan W. Moore and Professor Bruce R. Childers will be presenting their paper entitled, "Automatic Generation of Program Affinity Policies Using Machine Learning" at The International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC'13) in Rome, Italy in March 2013. [February 2013]

PHD student Socrates Demetriades and Professor Sangyeun Cho have been chosen to present their paper entitled, "Predicting Coherence Communication by Tracking Synchronization Points at Run Time" at the 45th Annual MICRO-45 Conference held in Vancouver Canada in December 2012.[November 2012]

Graduate student Timothy Luciani, Astronomy graduate student Brian Cherinka, CS alumni student Boyu Sun, undergraduate student Sean Myers, Astronomy Professor Michael Wood-Vasey,Professor Alex Labrinidis, and Professor G. Elisabeta Marai have received an Honorable Mention for their paper "Panning and Zooming the Observable Universe with Prefix-Matching Indices and Pixel-Based Overlays" at the IEEE Visualization 2012, Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization Symposium, held in Seattle, WA in October 2012.[October 2012]

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]

Graduate student William C. Garrison III, Assistant Professor Adam J. Lee, and their collaborator Timothy L. Hinrichs will be presenting their publication entitled, "The Need for Application-Aware Access Control Evaluation,” in Proceedings of the New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW) held in Bertinoro, Italy in September 2012. [July 2012]

Tim Luciani, first year doctoral student in CS, is the second CS student to receive an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Tim's selection was based on his outstanding abilities and accomplishments, as well as his potential to contribute to strengthening the vitality of the US science and engineering enterprise. Congratulations Tim! [July 2012]

Congratulations to graduate student Mehmud Abliz and Professor Taieb Znati for winning the Best Paper Award on the New Approach to Mitigating Distributed Service Flooding Attacks at the Seventh International Conference on Systems held in Saint Gilles, Reunion Island from February 29-March 5, 2012. [July 2012]

The Department of Computer Science is proud to partner with Girl Develop It which is an organization that aims to empower more women with confidence in their technological abilities.[July 2012]

Professors Panos K. Chrysanthis and Alexandros Labrinidis, directors of the Advanced Data Management Technology Lab, were invited to the inaugural EMC University Day in Boston on June 11, 2012. At this very successful event, Prof. Labrinidis served on the Big Data panel, whereas their PhD students Lory Al Moakar and Thao N Pham participated in the Poster Session. Congratulations to Lory, whose poster finished 3rd in the best poster competition (after CMU and Cornell). [June 2012]

As an initiative to increase diversity in our department, we are proud to be a bronze sponsor of the 2012 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women and Computing.[June 2012]

We are pleased to announce that our department is now an Academic Alliance member of the National Center for Women & Information Technology, a coalition that works to increase diversity in IT and computing. The Academic Alliance consists of over 400 distinguished representatives from the computer science and IT departments of nearly 200 colleges and universities across the country.[May 2012]

Alice Lingming Lai who received the 2012 Outstanding CS Undergraduate Student Award, has also been awarded a 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to pursue a PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Double Congratulations Alice! Details on the NSF award information can be found at Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards.[April 2012]

As we approach the last week of classes and finals week, the Teaching Times would like to offer faculty and graduate instructors some information to help students successfully complete the semester in spite of the recent disruptions on campus. Click Class Disruption Tips to learn more about how you can be as productive as possible during this time.[April 2012]

The Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women (CRA-W) and the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC), chose graduate student Chelsea Mafrica to attend the 3rd summer school workshop on Computer Architecture. Let's offer her a big congratulations! For more information on the workshop, visit: Summer School workshop on Computer Architecture. [April 2012]

Graduate student PJ Dillon has been selected to participate in the 2012 NYC Turing Fellows Summer Internship Program and matched with Sulia, a New York City company focusing on content organization. Let's offer him a big congratulations!You can find more information on the program at: Turing Fellows Summer Internship Program. [April 2012]

Marian Iskander, Ryan Moore, and Thao Nguyen Pham, CS graduate students, received the Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship for the 2012-2013 academic year.[March 2012]