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The Computer Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh is hosted in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and is one of the oldest CS Departments in the United States. Pitt's Computer Science Department takes pride in over 40 years' research and teaching excellence in most core areas of Computer Science and Information Technologies: artificial intelligence, algorithms, databases, software engineering, systems and networks. With the hiring of new faculty, the Department has recently expanded to new directions in the areas of data visualization and medical imaging and strengthened the areas of security/privacy, embedded systems, compilers, computer architecture and natural language processing. The Department attracts substantial funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Homeland Security to support research and develop well-equipped research labs and centers.

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Spotlight

Adam M. Smith and Yao Sun (CS graduate students), Wen Xu (MS '11), James R. Faeder (Computational Systems & Biology faculty) and G. Elisabeta Marai (CS faculty) have received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Vis '11 Symposium on Biological Data Visualization for their paper RuleBender: Integrated Visualization for Biochemical Rule-Based Modeling. The paper describes the visual paradigms, algorithms, design and implementation decisions behind RuleBender, an open-source visual tool for constructing, debugging, simulating and analyzing rule-based biological models. The project is the result of a successful collaboration between visualization and biology researchers, and has been downloaded more than 160 times in the four months since its initial announcement.[October 2011]

News

Sangyeun Cho, CS Faculty, is elected as a Senior Member of IEEE. IEEE recognizes as Senior Members those IEEE members who have shown technical and professional excellence after being in professional practice for at least ten years.[January 2012]

CS Alum, Tawfig Al Rabiah (MS'96, PhD'99), appointed Minister of Commerce and Industry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry develops and expands domestic and foreign trade and adopts initiatives fostering the role of the private sector.[January 2012]

Adam M. Smith and Yao Sun (CS graduate students), Wen Xu (MS '11), James R. Faeder (Computational Systems & Biology faculty) and G. Elisabeta Marai (CS faculty) have received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Vis '11 Symposium on Biological Data Visualization for their paper RuleBender: Integrated Visualization for Biochemical Rule-Based Modeling. The paper describes the visual paradigms, algorithms, design and implementation decisions behind RuleBender, an open-source visual tool for constructing, debugging, simulating and analyzing rule-based biological models. The project is the result of a successful collaboration between visualization and biology researchers, and has been downloaded more than 160 times in the four months since its initial announcement.[October 2011]

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]

Congratulations to the Faculty and Graduate Students who received awards at the 2011 Annual Welcome Back reception! The 2010-2011 CS Department Teaching Awards, Orrin E. and Margaret M. Taulbee Award, and the Graduate Student Awards were announced at the event.[September 2011]

In April 2011, Professor Kirk Pruhs gave the keynote invited talk, entitled Managing Power Heterogeneity, at TAPAS, the ICST Conference on Theory and Practice of Algorithms in (Computer) Systems. In October 2011 he will give an invited talk/tutorial, entitled Green Computing Algorithmics, at FOCS, the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science. In April 2012 he will give an invited talk at LATIN, the Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics.[September 2011]

Youtao Zhang is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure (effective September 1, 2011). Congratulations! [September 2011]

Professor Diane Litman, CS Faculty, is honored as s Senior Member in the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11). Senior Member status recognizes AAAI members who have achieved significant accomplishments within the field of artificial intelligence. She is one of only 25 AAAI members recognized as Senior Member this year.[August 2011]

CS and Physics & Astronomy faculty awarded a 4-year, $1.6M NSF Grant for Understanding the Universe through Scalable Navigation of a Galaxy of Annotations. This project will impact the ability to share astronomical data quickly and widely. Alexandros Labrinidis, Panos K. Chrysanthis, and Liz Marai will be working with Physics & Astronomy faculty Jeffrey Newman, Michael Wood-Vasey, and Arthur Kosowsky. [August 2011]

CS faculty selected for two of eight Innovation in Education Awards by the Provost's Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence (ACIE). Associate Professor Sangyeung Cho and Assistant Professor Jingtao Wang proposals introduce innovative and creative approaches to teaching. Pitt Chronicle. University Times.[May 2011]

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Department Events

This Week's Talks and Events

The 2010-2011 Bayer Distinguished Lecturer Series features: Michael Reiter (U of NC, Chapel Hill), Umesh Dayal (HP Labs), Chris Johnson (U of Utah), and Bernard Chazelle (Princeton U).

11th Annual Computer Science Day, March 18, 2011

Upcoming Events

01/31/2012 Florian Waas (Greenplum) "Big Data Analytics -- New Challenges in Query Processing"

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