Dr. Adriana Kovashka just received an NSF Career Award. Her project is entitled "Natural Narratives and Multimodal Context as Weak Supervision for Learning Object Categories". This project develops a framework to learn computer vision models for the detection of objects from weak, naturally-occurring supervision in the form of language (text or speech), and additional multimodal signals. It considers dynamic settings,...
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Four CS undergraduate students were featured in multiple news stories for developing VaccinatePa.org. The website aims to make finding a COVID-19 vaccine appointment easier by collecting information from users about vaccine availability and allowing users to easily find the most up to date availability information by county. Limited vaccine supply has made finding an appointment to get the vaccine a...
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Dr. Diane Litman (Professor, CS) together with Dr. Kevin Ashley (Professor, School of Law) just received a new award from the National Science Foundation (through the Fairness in Artificial Intelligence program), entitled Using AI to Increase Fairness by Improving Access to Justice. Both of them also hold Senior Scientist appointments at the Learning Research and Development Center. Their project applies Artificial...
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Congratulations to Dr. Malihe Alikhani for receiving one of the four Fall 2020 Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grants, which provide initial funding for novel and innovative multidisciplinary efforts that advance Pitt Cyber’s mission. Her project is entitled A Computational Approach to Measuring and Explaining Sophistication and Argumentation in Political Discourse – and aims to create new computer science methods tailored for political speech to quantify and measure the structure...
Read MoreThe School of Computing and Information is recruiting five tenure/tenure-stream faculty members this year in the following areas: Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science) Digital Health, Health Technologies, and Health Information Services (Assistant Professor, Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship) Human-Centered Information Systems (Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics and Networked Systems) Technology for Learning...
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