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Meet SCI’s New Faculty: Morgan Frank
Name: Morgan Frank
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Informatics and Networked Systems
Dr. Dmitriy Babichenko: How to anticipate hiccups in health care
September 3, 2020
Information Science Alumna Creates Virtual and Augmented Reality Tools for Studying Nature
SCI alumna Maria Harrington has recently created technological tools to help people explore nature through virtual and augmented reality. Her virtual reality game, called Virtual UCF Arboretum, provides users with an opportunity to explore the University of Central Florida’s arboretum, which contains 274 acres of natural habitat. She has also created an augmented reality tool called AR Perpetual Garden App, which allows users to transform any space into an Appalachian flora garden through a smart phone or tablet. These tools are helpful in supplementing science lessons for
Meet SCI’s New Faculty: Arjun Chandrasekhar
Name: Arjun Chandrasekhar
Title: Teaching Assistant Professor
Department: Computer Science
SCI Professor Authors Paper on Blockchain Networks
SCI Professor Martin Weiss has contributed to a research article about the function of governance in public blockchain networks. The article is titled “Can Permissionless Blockchains Avoid Governance and the Law?” and is published by SSRN, a journal devoted to the dissemination of scholarly research. It is co-authored by Graduate School of Public and International Affairs Associate Professor Ilia Murtazashvili, as well as Eric Alston of the Finance Division of the University of Colorado Boulder and Wilson Law of Baylor University. The paper examines the decentralized priva
SCI Faculty Member Receives Grant from the National Science Foundation to Improve Computer Vision
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SCI Faculty Members Featured in Three Grants from the National Science Foundation
Three recent grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) feature SCI faculty members. Ranging in subject area from data literacy to the study of spectrum and wireless systems to analysis of social inequality, these projects reveal the breadth and depth of SCI faculty’s research.
Meet SCI's New Faculty: Malihe Alikhani
Name: Malihe Alikhani
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Computer Science
Dr. Jacob Biehl: Carving the path to safer and smarter buildings
August 19, 2020
SCI Faculty Member Appointed Director of the Sara Fine Institute
Dr. Eleanor Mattern, faculty member at the School of Computing and Information, was recently appointed Director of the Sara Fine Institute. In her current work, Mattern, who holds a PhD in Library and Information Sciences, is focused on open data about our communities and on building capacity for libraries to help the public to access, use, and benefit from civic data and information.
SCI Faculty Selected as Chair of Information Culture and Data Stewardship
August 3, 2020
SCI Associate Professor Mary K. Biagini was recently selected as Chair of the Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship (ICDS).
“To lead as Chair is a welcome challenge to tackle with the ICDS faculty,” said Biagini. “I’ve always been a learner and learning from the faculty, students, and alumni of the Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship during the time of the pandemic is the learning experience of my professional life.”
MLIS Student Selected as Spectrum Scholar by the American Library Association
Current Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) student Kahlila Chaar-Pérez was recently awarded a 2020 Spectrum Scholarship by the American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services. The Spectrum Scholarship Program actively recruits and provides assistance to students who are obtaining graduate degrees within the field of library and information science. This year’s Spectrum Scholars were selected based on their commitment to community building, leadership potential, and planned contributions to making social justice part of their
SCI Faculty Receive Grant from the National Science Foundation and Intel Corporation to Enhance Computer Performance
SCI faculty members Youtao Zhang and Xulong Tang were recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Intel Corporation to improve computer memory performance through the development of hardware and software. The project, titled “FoMR: A Software and Hardware Co-Design for Addressing the Performance Bottlenecks in Secure Non-Volatile Memory,” received the grant from the NSF’s Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, which supports research and education on the mathematical, scientific, and technological foundations of computing, information, and com
SCI Celebrates Three Years of Accomplishments
Since launching on July 1, 2017, the School of Computing and Information (SCI) at Pitt has made a number of significant accomplishments thanks to the constant dedication and work of our students, faculty, staff, alumni and partners. As we reflect on these many exciting achievements, we also look to the future of the school and all that we will achieve.