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News
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]
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]
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]
Announcements
A&S Hot Metal Bridge Program
The Computer Science Department is participating in the Arts & Sciences Hot Metal Bridge Program. This new program is a two-semester post-baccalaureate fellowship for those who are highly motivated and show strong academic promise as well as help A&S meet student diversity goals. Helping the fellows prepare for doctoral study, the program will match students with faculty mentor/advisor and graduate student mentor. Apply by April 2, 2012 for the 2012-2013 academic year.
SMART Scholarship Program
The Science, Mathematics, And Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship-for-service program is an opportunity for U.S. graduate and undergraduate students to be fully funded in a wide range of technical areas. The SMART Scholarship Program brochure has more information. Applications due December 1, 2012. More information about the Smart Scholarship Application.
Interesting Links
Good Job Market for CS graduates on CNN
[January 2012]