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Pictures are posted from the Chinese Delegation's visit as part of the US-China Computer Science Leadership Summit
CS Outstanding UG Award
The votes are in and the winner of the 2006-2007 CS Outstanding UG Award is
Robert Cleric. It was a close vote and all were great candidates! Congrats,
Robert!
Congratulations to the departmental sponsored Falk Laboratory School Robotics Team. The "Invisible Robonauts" won the 1st place Director's Award in the "May Madness 2007: Space Adventure" tournament. The Director's Award is based on the team's combined performance in robot missions, hardware design, software design, and a research project. The tournament is sponsored by the Robotics Academy. The team of 5 consisted of 5th-7th graders at Falk School, and was coached by Pitt CS Professor Diane Litman, as well as Pitt GSPH Professors Feingold and Martinson.
Congratulations to the Natural Language Processing Laboratory! Mihai Rotaru (CS graduate student) and Diane Litman (CS faculty), along with two NLP research associates, won a 'Best Paper Award' at NAACL-HLT 2007. The paper, "Exploring Affect-Context Dependencies for Adaptive System Development", was written by Kate Forbes-Riley, Mihai Rotaru, Diane Litman, and Joel Tetreault.
Nevine AbouGhazala is acknowledged in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette newspaper (full article here). Congratulations Nevine on your achievements!
The Technology Leadership Institute (TLI), the department's outreach program for high school students is recruiting instructors and students for the upcoming summer. Learn more by visiting http://www.cs.pitt.edu/tli
Alexandros Labrinidis
has recently been appointed Editor in Chief of ACM
SIGMOD Record, the official
newsletter of ACM's Special Interest Group on Management of Data, currently
in its 36th year of circulation. Congrats Alex!
Bob Cleric and Greg Nicholas ,
two Pitt undergraduate CS students that were nominated were BOTH selected for Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association's Undergraduate Award for 2007 . Bob Cleric started the PhD Program at Pitt in January 2007, Greg Nicholas is applying for graduate school. Congratulations Bob and Greg on this outstanding achievement!
Panos K. Chrysanthis
was recently named senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Inc. Senior membership is the highest professional grade in the IEEE, and is conferred upon only 7 percent of the institute's membership. Congrats, Panos!
Tsunami-detecting sensor network project is getting press coverage: go here for more information (Nov 22, 2006)
Nevine M. AbouGhazaleh
is one of 12 students nationally to be awarded the Josephine De Kármán Fellowship. Nevine was also recently awarded a 2006 Anita Borg Scholarship. Congrats Nevine!
Java Code Camp
On October 14th we hosted the Pitt Java Users Group Code Camp. 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. (Oct 14, 2006)
Lead researcher is CS professor Jan Wiebe. Read more about it in Pittsburgh Business Times. (Aug 7, 2006)
Technology Leadership InstituteThe 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)
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)
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
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