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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]
On March 29. 2012, the Obama Administration unveiled its $200M Big Data R&D Initiative. Associate Professor Alexandros Labrinidis was part of a team of
leading data management researchers across the United States who co-wrote a community white paper on the Challenges and Opportunities with Big Data.The white paper, published earlier in March, will be discussed at a panel during the VLDB 2012 International Conference from August 27-31 in Istanbul. [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]
CS Part-time faculty Paul Covaleski receives the Students' Choice Award from the College of General Studies Student Government. The award was presented on Friday, April 13th at the 20th Annual Excellence in CGS Reception.[April 2012]
Rami Melhem, CS faculty, is awarded the 2012 Provost's Award for Excellence in Mentoring. This award recognizes faculty members who demonstrate outstanding mentoring of graduate students seeking a research doctorate degree.[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]
John Ramirez, CS Senior Lecturer, is one of 5 awarded the 2012 Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Ramirez was recognized for having a teaching style that encourages students to pursue intellectually demanding subjects. He is the second CS faculty, along with Dr. George Novacky ('93), to receive this award.
Pitt Chronicle
University Times[February 2012]
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]
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