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2013
(Hide)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]
2012
(Hide)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]
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]
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]
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]
2011
(Show)Two CS undergrad teams compete for the World's Smartest Trophy lead by coach John Ramirez. The Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest regional competition will be held at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, OH on Saturday. Champions will advance to the World Finals. Pitt News [October 2011]
Graduating CS seniors and their family celebrate on Saturday evening at the William Pitt Union. Some photos from the evening's celebration.[May 2011]
CS Undergrad Brian Sisco is part of the Pitt team competing in Let's Play Jeopardy! during the day-long IBM Watson Symposium on March 30th. Pitt and CMU students challenged IBM's Watson to a Jeopardy! match. Interview with Pitt's Team [April 2011]
CS sophomores, Kevin Jeffries and Sean Myers, are among the 50 selected nationwide to receive the Microsoft Golden Ticket. Kevin and Sean will travel to the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington to experience the products, people, and culture of Microsoft. Students are nominated by their professors and selected by Microsoft staff based upon their academic achievements and potential.[March 2011]
A research submission from Jesse Thomason, sophomore in CS, has been accepted by the upcoming NCUR 2011 conference in Ithaca, NY. Jesse's research project, "Embodied Exploration of Large Scale Multi-dimentional Data on Mobile Devices" is advised by Prof. Jingtao Wang and is supported in part by the Honors Research Assistantship. NCUR is dedicated to promoting undergraduate research, scholarship and creative activity in all fields of study.[February 2011]
2010
(Show)CS Undergraduate Heather Friedberg has been selected for Honorable Mention in the Computing Research for CRA's Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards 2011. [December 2010]
Computer Science's team for the MS Puzzle Challenge takes 6th place at CMU event and 62nd place of the 420 nationally competing teams. Heather Friedberg, Joanna Drummond, David Goldberg and Christian Woods also captured an honorable mention award in the "First Appearance" category at the local competition. See the official team rankings.[November 2010]
CS Undergraduate Heather Friedberg was awarded the 2010 Google Engineering Intern Scholarship. The recipients are selected from Google Summer 2010 Engineering Interns in North America and evaluated on their academic achievements, community involvement, and leadership accomplishments. [September 2010]
Amy Scarbrough, Honors College Student and CS Bioinformatics undergraduate, receives the Morris K. Udall Scholarship for her excellent academic record and research on the environment.[April 2010]
2009
(Show)Undergraduate Yann Le Gall has been awarded the Arts & Sciences Chancellor's Undergraduate Research Fellowship.[November 2009]
Undergraduate Heather Friedberg (WiCS undergrad coordinator) was awarded a Grace Hopper Celebration 2009 scholarship to attend the 2009 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, co-presented by ACM and ABI.[June 2009]
2008
(Show)Brian Wongchaowart, an undergradute student in our Department and a member of the ADMT Lab, has received an Honorable Mention at the 2009 CRA Undergraduate Student Award Competition.[December 2008]
Alex Connor, an undergraduate student and staff member of the ADMT Lab, won the best poster award at the ACM SIGMOD 2008 Undergraduate Poster Competition. His poster entry was entitled "Nearest Neighbor Queries over Graph Data".[June 2008]
CS Undergraduate student Corey Bonnell is featured in the Pitt News for his software, Pitt Lab Printer.[March 2008]