Alfred Moyé (A&S ’68G) may have moved from Pittsburgh 40 years ago, but his blood continues to run blue and gold - with more than a little black and gold mixed in.
Jeffrey Cohn, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Intelligent Systems, received the Sustained Accomplishment Award at the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026).
Amin Tajgardoon (SCI ‘17G, ‘25G) was selected as one of two runner-up finalists for the 2026 Edward H. Shortliffe Doctoral Dissertation Award by this year's AMIA Dissertation Awards Committee.
Through a mixture of their experiences and abilities, Elias Hadjipanayis (SCI ‘28) and Owen Levy (A&S ‘28) built Apex Student, an app aimed at helping all students stay organized and successful.
More than 70 people turned out for the ninth annual Toast to SCI, held Friday, Sept. 25, as part of Homecoming 2026. The evening also featured the second annual alumni awards, which honor outstanding alumni while strengthening ties within the alumni community and highlighting the school's far-reaching impact.
Assistant Professor Amy Babay will serve as PI for a multi-year National Science Foundation grant to begin in October 2026 to explore the development of the “Intelligent Resilient Overlay NextG Network (IRONN).”
SCI’s undergraduate computer science program ranked No. 49 (tie) in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2027 Best College rankings, a 14-spot jump from the previous year’s list and the highest the program has ever been ranked in the U.S. News’ rankings.
Local researchers, including CS Professor Alexandros Labrinidis, weigh in on recent warnings that AI could pose an existential threat to humanity, discussing what risks deserve attention and how AI development should be governed.
A research project led by PhD Students Andrew Aquilina and Quinn Wolter as well as Professor Yu-Ru Lin was featured on the Bright Initiative, a global Data-for-Good program founded by Bright Data.
In a collaboration between six researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, three of which come from the School of Computing and Information, a paper reflecting ten years of work was published just this year.
Mark Shozda (SCI '80, KATZ '92), a member of the SCI Alumni Board, has had continuous involvement with Pitt, both financially and personally, since earning his B.S. in Computer Science and MBA from the University. Through his work at Pitt, Shozda has provided a primary example of what an outstanding alumnus can look like.
Four SCI faculty members—Frances Corry, Aakash Gautam, Eleanor Mattern, and Rebecca Morris—were awarded Institute of Museum and Library Service (IMLS) grants. Established in 1996, the IMLS supports libraries, archives, and museums in all 50 states and U.S. territories.
Recent PhD Graduate Deniz Sonmez-Unal and SCI Professor Erin Walker received the best paper award at the 2026 Educational Data Mining Conference (EDM) for their paper “Leveraging Privileged Multimodal Data to Model Cognitive States in an Interactive Learning Platform.”
Despite alarming headlines about tech layoffs and AI, computing remains a strong career path because job losses stem largely from a post-pandemic market correction plus AI automating only rote coding tasks, while demand grows for graduates who bring creativity, judgment, and cross-disciplinary skills that AI can't replicate.
Doctoral student Elaine Kong and master’s student Violeta Duncan (Simmons University) are the 2026 recipients of the Paul Evan Peters Scholarship for graduate study in information science or closely related fields.
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