Yanbing Xue, a CS PhD student, together with his adviser Professor Milos Hauskrecht, received the best student paper award for their work on 'Efficient Learning of Classification Models from Soft-label Information by Binning and Ranking' at the 30th International FLAIRS Conference in May 2017. Congratulations!
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Local high school students will have the opportunity to receive a hands-on education about cybersecurity from July 24 through 28 at the Air Force Association’s CyberCamp to be held on the University of Pittsburgh campus in Oakland. Pitt’s Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security is one of 66 sites selected across the country to host a CyberCamp this year,...
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Paul R. Cohen is the founding dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. Cohen’s deanship begins on Aug. 1, 2017. The first new school or college established at Pitt since 1995, the School of Computing and Information is a multidisciplinary environment that supports discovery, innovation and entrepreneurship driven by data and technology. It is a key...
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The University of Pittsburgh hired Rob A. Rutenbar Monday as the first Senior Vice Chancellor for Research, a new position that will oversee and integrate research at Pitt. Rutenbar is a Full Professor of Computer Science, in the Computer Science Department at Pitt. The search for the job began in October 2016, when Pitt held four town halls to get...
Read MoreProf. Alexandros Labrinidis and Prof. Kostas Pelechrinis are working on TransitScreen project that can be used to increase traffic at businesses near transit stops. The university is sponsoring TransitScreen, a service that provides real-time information on a variety of transit services in Oakland, including buses operated by the Port Authority, University of Pittsburgh and UPMC, ride-hailing services Uber and Lyft,...
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