Technology & Science
Trevor Devine was awarded the Swanson School’s George Washington Prize
The award aims to reinforce the importance of engineering and technology in society and enhance the visibility of the profession across the Swanson School’s engineering disciplines.
Pitt’s Department of Chemistry named 4 distinguished alumni
The outstanding professors, industry leaders and researchers will be recognized at an October dinner.
Pitt alumnus Mohammed Altamimi was named governor of the Communications and Information Technology Commission in Saudi Arabia
He graduated from the School of Computing and Information with a PhD in telecommunications and networking.
Feng Xiong received a CAREER Award for an AI energy efficiency project
The project aims to make computers complete cognitive tasks using less energy.
2 Pitt researchers were named National Academy of Inventors fellows
Rob Rutenbar and William Federspiel joined the 2019 class, obtaining the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.
A Pitt Engineering team won an award for an ASL translator device
The undergraduates took the Bronze Award at the InnovateFPGA 2019 Global Contest Regional Final.
Pitt Cyber held a successful 3rd annual Cyber Camp
This year, 213 high school students learned about cybersecurity basics as well as advanced skills like networking and operations security.
These Pitt researchers will create a vision system mimicking human sight
The project by Ryad Benosman and Feng Xiong earned $500,000 from the National Science Foundation.
William Kramer will lead the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Kramer has held leadership roles at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and at NASA Ames Research Center.
LifeX Labs received an Economic Development Administration entrepreneurship grant
The Pitt startup is among 44 organizations nationwide — and the only one in Pennsylvania — to share a total of $23 million awarded under the EDA’s i6 Challenge grant program.