December 6, 2018: André DeHon, Professor of ESE and CIS, and Sanjeev Khanna, Henry Salvatori Professor of CIS, have been named to the 2018 Association for Computing Machinery Fellowship class. Read more.

October 19, 2018: Sampath Kannan is one of the winners of the inaugural Penn India Research and Engagement Fund (Penn IREF) awards for his project on “The Safe Internet of Things.” Read more.

May 2, 2018: Zachary Ives has been named the Adani President’s Distinguished Professor.

April 18, 2018: Arvind Bhusnurmath, Lecturer in Computer and Information Science, has been awarded the Hatfield Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Lecturer and Practice Professor Track.

April 17, 2018: Charles Yang, Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics, has been awarded a 2018 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. Read more.

March 26, 2018: Steve Zdancewic received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, the highest teaching award at the University level.

February 7, 2018: Researchers in Penn Engineering’s PRECISE Center have received a $6.1 million, five-year grant from the Office of Naval Research for their ASPIRE project. The team of CIS researchers includes Associate Professor Mayur Naik, Zisman Family Professor Rajeev Alur, Professor Boon Thau Loo, Research Associate Professor Oleg Sokolsky, and Cecilia Fitler Moore Professor Insup Lee. Read more.

May 12, 2017: Sanjeev Khanna received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, the highest teaching award at the University level.

March 27, 2017: Nadia Heninger, Magerman Term Assistant Professor, was awarded an NSF CAREER Award for research on “Cryptographic Security at Internet Scale”. Read more.

March 14, 2017: Aaron Roth has been appointed to the Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Chair.

June 25, 2013: Benjamin Pierce received the 20-year Test of Time award from the IEEE Logic in Computer Science conference for his paper “Typing and Subtyping for Mobile Processes,” with Davide Sangiorgi.

January 14, 2013: Aaron Roth, CIS Assistant Professor, was awarded an NSF CAREER Award, “The Algotithmic Foundations of Data Privacy”.

2013: “A Guide to the Classification Theorem for Compact Surfaces” coauthored by Dr. Jean Gallier, CIS Professor, and Dianna Xu, former CIS Ph.D and presently Chair of CS at Bryn Mawr, has been published by Springer-Verlag.

December 11, 2012: Benjamin Pierce, CIS Profesor, and Leonid Libkin, Wenfei Fan, and Klara Nahrstedt, CIS Alumni, being named as ACM 2012 Fellows.

November 14, 2012: Dr. Aaron Roth, CIS Assistant Professor, and Nate Foster, CIS Alum now at Cornell, have been named winners of the Yahoo! ACE (Academic Career Enhancement) Award for 2012- 2013.

October 22, 2012: JoshiFest: A Celebration of the Work of Aravind Joshi, See JoshiFest event photos and videos!

April 17, 2012: Dr. Michael Kearns elected to the 2012 Class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read More.

April 11, 2012: PRECISE Researchers Rajeev Alur, Ashutosh Trivedi, and Dominik Wojtczak won the best paper award for their work titled “Optimal scheduling for constant-rate multi-mode systems” at 15th Conference on Hybrid Systems (HSCC) at 2012 Cyber-Physical Systems Week in Beijing.

April 3, 2012: Penn to Lead $10 Million Project on Computer-assisted Programming… Congratulations to Rajeev Alur for his leadership on a $10M NSF Expeditions award.

April 3, 2012: Penn Joins MIT-led Project on ‘Printable Robots’. Congratulations to Vijay Kumar, Andre Dehon, Insup Lee and Sanjeev Khanna for their Expeditions proposal, led by Daniela Rus at MIT. NSF Award

March 29, 2012: Congratulations to Dr. Ben Taskar, Magerman Term Associate Professor, for being awarded tenure this spring in the Computer and Information Science Department!

March 9, 2012: Dr. CJ Taylor awarded the University of Pennsylvania’s Faculty award, the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback for Distinguished Teaching.

February 22, 2012: “The best FPGA papers of all time!” Andre DeHon is author on 5 of the list of the 25 most important Field-Programmable Gate Arrays papers published in the field.

February 2, 2012: Kostas Daniilidis for being named a 2012 IEEE Fellow for his contributions to visual motion analysis, omni-directional vision, and three-dimensional robot vision.

January 11, 2012: Boon Thau Loo won an AFOSR Young Investigator Award for his proposal “A Unified Algebraic and Logic-based Framework towards Safe Routing Implementations”! Penn News Article

December 15, 2011: Congratulations to Aravind Joshi and Mitch Marcus for being selected as ACL Fellows, which recognizes ACL members whose contributions to the field have been most extraordinary. We would also like to congratulate our CIS Alums who were also chosen: Michael Collins, Julia Hirschberg and Kathleen McKeown.

September 2011: CIS Welcomes New Faculty: Aaron Roth, Raj and Neera Singh Assistant Professor, and Benedict Brown, Lecturer.

June 29, 2011: Ani Nenkova will be one of the presenters at the 17th annual Frontiers of Engineering Symposium held by the National Academy of Engineering. Read More in Engineering News.

June 1, 2011: Ben Taskar was awarded an NSF CAREER award entitled “Computation and Approximation in Structured Learning“. Read More in Engineering News.

June 2011: Geometric Methods and Applications for Computer Science and Engineering, Second Edition. Jean Gallier, Springer-Verlag, TAM Vol. 38 (appeared in June 2011).

January 2011: Andreas Haeberlen, the Raj and Neera Singh Assistant Professor in CIS, received a prestigious NSF CAREER award for his proposal, “Evidence in Federated Distributed Systems.” NSF’s most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify….Read More

December 10, 2010: George J. Pappas, Secondary Faculty of CIS and Deputy Dean for Research at SEAS, was awarded the 2010 Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize by the IEEE Control Systems Society to recognize contributions by a young researcher in the broad field of systems and control.

October 2010, Zack Ives named the Raymond S. Markowitz Faculty Fellow in recognition of his research and educational accomplishments, and of his service to the school.

June 16, 2010: Andreas Haeberlen was awarded the 2009 Otto Hahn Medal, awarded by the Max Planck Society for outstanding scientific achievements.

April 20, 2010: Zack Ives received the Lindback Award, the highest teaching award at the University level given in recognition of “distinguished teaching.”

April 5, 2010: Ben Taskar has been named, as one of17, for the Office of Naval Research’s 2010 Young Investigator Program recipients.

April 2010: Secondary faculty member, Junhyong Kim, Co-Director of the PGFI, was awarded a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship, entitled – “Genome-Scale Higher Order Evolution”.

April 2010: Zack Ives was selected to the DARPA Information Science And Technology (ISAT) Advisory Panel.

April 2010: Rajeev Alur has been awarded this year’s LICS Test-of-Time Award for his paper in LICS 1990, “Model-Checking for Real-Time Systems”. Secondary faculty member, Peter Freyd, also won this year’s award for his paper, “Recursive Types Reduced to Inductive Types”.

March 31, 2010: Sanjeev Khanna received the highest teaching award in SEAS, the S. Reid Warren Award, “presented annually by the undergrad student body and the Eng Alumni Society…at the School of Engineering and Applied Science.”

March 1, 2010: Sasha Rakhlin, CIS secondary assistant professor, received an NSF CAREER Award for his research, “Statistical and Computational Complexities of Modern Learning Problems”.

February 14, 2010: Ben Taskar has been awarded the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan 2010 Research Fellowship Award in the field of Computer Science.

January 2010: Ani Nenkova received an NSF CAREER Award for research, “Capturing Content and Linguistic Quality in Automatic Extractive and Abstractive Summarization.”

December 2009: Max Likhachev has been selected to participate on the DARPA 2010 Computer Science Study Panel, a great honor.

March 4th, 2009: Rajeev Alur has been awarded the George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for 2009-10, one of the highest research awards given in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Penn.

May 2009: Peter Buneman, our Adjunct Professor, was elected to Fellow of the Royal Society.

March 2009: Ben Taskar was invited to participate on the DARPA 2009 Computer Science Study Panel, a great and well-deserved honor.

February 2009: Steve Zdancewic received the highly recognized 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Research Faculty Fellowship Award this year along with our secondary faculty, Josh Plotkin, Assistant Professor in Biology.

February 2009: A special thanks went to Mitch Marcus and Ani Nenkova for hosting this years NACLO, North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad, competition.

Jan 29, 2009: Boon Thau Loo received a prestigious NSF CAREER Award on “Towards a Unified Declarative Platform for Composable Verifiable Networks.”

Dec 3, 2008: Insup Lee received IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems (TCRTS) Technical Achievement Award for outstanding technical achievement and leadership. The award was given at the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium held in Barcelona, Dec 2008.

Jul 14, 2008: Rajeev Alur was awarded the 2008 CAV Award for his fundamental contributions to the theory of Real-Time System Verifications.

January 2008: Professor Rajeev Alur named IEEE Fellow and ACM Fellow.

January 2008: CIS Welcomes New Department Chair, Weiss Professor Susan Davidson.

2007: CIS faculty rated 7th in the nation in faculty scholarly productivity.

October 12, 2018: CIS is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2018 J.P. Eckert Master’s Fellowship. The 2018 Eckert Fellows are Erin Goldberg (Computer Graphics and Game Technology), Stephanie Goldberg (Computer Graphics and Game Technology), Shalmali Joshi (Embedded Systems), Ada Li (Data Science), Edidiong Okon (Computer and Information Science), Tierra Sharae (Computer and Information Technology), and Rosalind Shinkle (Robotics).

July 11, 2018: Justin Hsu, a recent CIS graduate, has received the John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award for exploring and formalizing several proofs critical to the field of differential privacy. Read more.

April 19, 2018: CIS PhD student, Anne Cocos has received a 2018 Google PhD Fellowship for her work i natural language processing. Read more.

March 24, 2017: Three Penn Engineering undergraduates have been selected as 2017 KPCB Engineering Fellows. Rajat Bhageria (W/ROBO’18), Samantha Chung (NETS’19), and Joseph Gao (CIS’18/CCGT’19) were selected as Fellows from a pool of 2000 applicants. Read more.

January 27, 2017: Lucy Chai, a senior majoring in bioengineering and computer science, has received a Churchill Scholarship from the Winston Churchill Foundation. Read more.

October 2nd, 2013: Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2013 Attendees; (Sponsored by Penn Engineering) Allison Pearce, Senior, CIS Johanna Martens, Senior, CIS, Tara Siegel, Senior, DMD, Jasmine Lee, Junior, CMPE, Teresa Fan, Sophomore, DMD, Sally Kong (partial), Sophomore, ASCC, (Sponsored by Facebook) Clara Wu, Junior, NETS
(Sponsored by Bank of America) Charu Jangid, Senior, CIS (Sponsored by Yahoo) Stella Latscha, MSE, Robotics Richa Agrawal, MSE, Robotics (Sponsored by NSF and HACU) Constanza Figuerola, Sophomore, CSCI (Sponsored by Microsoft) Sneha Keshwani, Junior, CIS (Sponsored by Google)
Trisha Kothari, Senior, CSCI

August 29, 2013: CIS PhD student, Lili Dworkin is the winner of the 2012-13 Teaching Practicum Award.

May 12th, 2013: Wenchao Zhous, CIS alumni, received Honorable Mention for the SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award (2013). Zhou’s thesis is titled “Secure Time-aware Provenance for Distributed Systems”.

February 14th, 2013: Fei Sha, CIS PhD and GRASP Alumni and Bjoern Hartmann, DMD and MSE CIS Alumni were selected for the 2013 Sloan Research Fellow.

February 4th, 2013: Penn masters students Pratikkumar Patel, Tianming Zheng, Jiehua Zhu won the 1st place at the Software-defined Networking (SDN) / Network Programmability Hackathon.

December 14, 2012: Lauren Shapiro, a junior in Penn Engineering’s Digital Media Design (DMD) program, is the recipient of the prestigious Apple iOS Women in Technology Scholarship.

December 13, 2012: Heart-on-a-Chip Receives First Prize at 2012 World Embedded Software Competition. This winning team included 2 CMPE students (Varun Sampath and Sriram Radhakrishnan) and a CIS PhD student (Zhihao Jiang).

December 7, 2012: Best Paper Award at IEEE RTSS 2012. This joint paper (with KAIST) received the best paper award at IEEE RTSS (Real-Time Systems Symposium) 2012: Hoon Sung Chwa, Hyoungbu Back, Sanjian Chen (CIS PhD), Jinkyu Lee, Arvind Easwaran, Insik Shin and Insup Lee, Extending Task-level to Job-level Fixed Priority Assignment and Schedulability Analysis Using Pseudo-deadlines.

October 24, 2012: DMD senior Jason Merrin has won the “Pitch to the Industry” animated series contest at the Miami International University of Art and Design 2012.

October 6th, 2012: PhD students Katie Gibson and Laurel Emurian received Yahoo Scholarships to attend the 2012 Grace Hopper Conference. CIS is a Silver Academic Sponsor of the 2012 Grace Hopper Conference, with 15 students attending!

September 18, 2012: PennApps first place prize went to the J.A.M. team, Java Auto Music, an app able to read a .wav file or a recording and to produce a sheet of music. JAM team members are CS juniors from left: Jocelin Lee, Digital Media Design (DMD), Angela Yu, Computational Biology, and Ana Mei, DMD.

September 17, 2012: Zhuoyao Zhang (advisee of Boon Thau Loo) received the best student paper award for “Automated Profiling and Resource Management of Pig Programs for Meeting Service Level Objectives” at the 9th ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) 2012. This paper is co-authored
with HP Labs.

July 12th, 2012: Annie Louis and Dr. Ani Nenkova received the Best Paper Award for “A Coherence Model based on Syntactic Patterns” at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing conference (EMNLP), July 12 – 14 in Jeju Island, Korea.

May 15, 2012: Congratulations to our Seniors who are going on for their PhD! Rumen Stamatov in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB) at Duke University & Jessica Ouyang in NLP at Columbia University.

May 2012: Brent Yorgey awarded the 2012 Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students.

April 23, 2012: CIS Senior Design Winners…1st Place:  Philip Peng – Designing Rhythm Games for Touchscreen Devices ; 2nd Place:  Kevin Xu, Seth Shannin – PROTOS: A PR2 Open Tele-Operation System; 3rd Place:  Greyson Gregory, Vince Mannino, Alex Marple – Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing and MapReduce; Honorable Mentions: Geoffroy Bablon, Evan Massop, Matt Vogel, Sam Applebaum  – DroidDTN: A Bluetooth Delay Tolerant Network on Android; Louis Bergelson – Haplotyping: Generating Haplotypes from Diploid Sequence Data; Kaitlin Pollock – Application of Exhaustion Effects.

April 11, 2012: The Best Student Paper Award for the 18th  IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS) went to Miroslav Pajic and Zhihao Jiang for their paper,  “From Verification to Implementation: A Model Translation Tool and a Pacemaker Case Study,” co-authored with Insup Lee, Oleg Sokolsky and Rahul Mangharam.

April 2012: Alex Kulesza is the winner of the Rubinoff Award  for a  thesis that “could lead to innovative applications of computer technology” for his thesis “Learning with Determinantal Point Processes.”

March 30, 2012: Honorable Mention in the NSF Graduate Fellowship 2012 awards…Congratulations to Alexander Shoulson, PhD student advised by Dr. Norm Badler, and Mabel Zhang, PhD Student advised by Dr. Kostas Daniilidis, for receiving honorable mentions in this year’s NSF Graduate Fellowship.

March 12, 2012: “Three CIS Undergraduates Selected as KPCB Engineering Fellows”. Jeff Grimes (CIS’15), Zachary Wasserman (CIS’13) and Nathan Fraenkel (CIS’14) have been selected as 2012 KPCB Engineering Fellows.

March 9, 2012: Trisha Kothari was selected as a 2012-2013 Microsoft Scholarship recipient. She was chosen because of her impressive academic record and strong interest in making contributions to the software industry.

February 24, 2012: Intel Innovators Competition… Congratulations to Jeff Kiske and Eric Berdinis, two of our Computer Engineering Juniors, for winning the Intel Innovators Competition along with a $50,000 prize! Check out Eric’s Pitch in Round 3…

November 30, 2011: Kaitlin Pollock was selected for Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition for 2012. For more about Kaitlin, see the fall 2011 CIS newsletter.

September 2, 2011: Congratulations to Andrew West, et. al. for winning co-Best Paper at the 8th Annual Collaboration, Electronic messaging, Anti-Abuse and Spam Conference (CEAS 2011), Sept 1-2, 2011, Perth, WA, Australia. “Link Spamming Wikipedia for Profit,” Andrew G. West, Jian Chang, Krishna K. Venkatasubramanian, Oleg Sokolsky, and Insup Lee .

August 31, 2011: Congratulations to Jason Merrin, DMD ’13, for winning the Creative Concept Award in the CWA International Screenwriting Contest for his film, Sleepwalkers.

August 19, 2011: Congratulations to Wenchao Zhou, advised by Boon Thau Loo, for being awarded 2nd place at the ACM Student Research Competition held at SIGCOMM’11, for his work on the Formally Safe Routing (FSR) toolkit.

August 7, 2011: Congratulations to Joe Kider, Kaitlin Pollock and Alla Safonova for winning an Honorable Mention award for one of the top papers at SCA, ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2011. The paper was titled: “A Data Driven Model for Human Fatigue”

June 29, 2012: Our students, Kaitlin Pollock, along with summer REU, Kelsey Hurley, have been awarded ACM-W scholarships to attend SIGGRAPH 2011. Congratulations to them and to Norm Badler for his mentoring!

June 27, 2011: Hipster City Cycle (HCC), created by DMD alums Michael Highland and Keith McKnight along with Kevin Jenkins, is a pixel-art bike race through the city’s humble neighborhoods that is now available through the Apple App Store. View the Article in the Inquirer.

November 30, 2010: GRASP undergraduate research student, Jessica Wetstone, received an Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition for 2011.

October 19, 2010: IBM Research has awarded the 2010 Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship to CIS  graduate Colin Blundell for promising research in computer architecture.

September 2010: Todd Green and Micah Sherr, co-winners of the 2010 SEAS Rubinoff Award…conferred on graduating PhDs “whose dissertation has resulted in or could lead to innovative applications of computer technology.”

September 7, 2010: Teaching practicum award recipients for 2009-10 – Given in recognition of exceptional work, dedication and enthusiastic attitude in the performance of teaching assistant duties. Congratuations to….Jeff Byrnes, Ben Gojman, Aline Normoyle, and Brent Yorgey.

May 2010: Adam Aviv, CIS PhD Student, has been appointed a CTL Graduate Fellow for Teaching Excellence for 2010-11. Only 12 fellows from across the university this year were selected.

April 2010: Benjamin Gojman and Joe Kider received the 2010 Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students, which recognizes the profound impact of graduate students on undergraduate education at Penn.

April 27, 2010: CIS 401 Senior Design Projects
1st Place – Jay Fiddelman (adv: Ungar)
2nd Place – Andrew Schaye & Matthew Feczko (adv: Marcus & Nenkova)
3rd Place – Sam Lerer, Eric Tieniber (adv: Smith)

April 4, 2010: Kuzman Ganchev, co-advised by Fernando Pereira and Ben Taskar, was selected as the runner-up for the John Atanasoff Award from the President of the Republic of Bulgaria. This award is given annually to a Bulgarian scientist under 35 for scientific or practical contributions to the development of computer and information technology worldwide and significant economic or social importance for Bulgaria. Details in English

March 2009: Nate Foster and Jenn Wortman were the 2009 co-winners of the Rubinoff Award. This award is given to our graduating PhDs “whose dissertation has resulted  in or could lead to innovative applications of computer technology.” Past Recipients…

May 2008: Catherine Stocker received the Teaching Practicum Award for her exceptional work, dedication and attitude in CIS110 and EAS295.

April 2008: CIS Undergraduate Research Poster Event Top 3 Places…1st Place – Jiawei Matteus Pan, “Scene Recognition in Movies” (advisor: Ben Taskar) 2nd Place – Andrew Matas, “Scene Recognition in Videos” (advisor: Ben Taskar) 3rd Place – Mihai Oprea, “Declarative Toolkit for Rapid Network Protocol Simulation and Experimentation” (advisor: Boon Loo)

2008: CIS PhD Student Georgios Fainekos is the 2008 winner of the Frank Anger Memorial ACM SIGBED/SIGSOFT Student Award.

January 2008: CIS Phd Alumna Klara Nahrstedt named IEEE Fellow (Prof at UIUC).

2007: CIS PhD Student Swarat Chaudhuri won the 2008 ACM SIGPLAN Outstanding Dissertation Award for “Logics and Algorithms for Software Model Checking“.

November 18, 2013: Ben Taskar, Boeing Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, died of an apparent heart attack on the night of November 17, 2013, at the age of 36. Ben Taskar, 1977-2013.

April 8, 2013: PClassic for HS Programming Team held at CIS.

September 2012: CIS Welcomes New Faculty: Joseph Devietti, Assistant Professor, Thomas Farmer, Lecturer, Ladislav Kavan, Assistant Professor, Linh Thi Xuan Phan, Assistant Research Professor.

July 11, 2012: CIS co-hosted the NSF grant funded Tapestry Workshop for high school CS teachers with faculty from the University of Virginia at Penn on July 11th, 12th and 13th.

March 21, 2012: 12 Philadelphia Area High School Girls honored with the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Award at Penn Engineering.

October 16, 2012: Christian Murphy’s engineering classes create apps to serve Penn community.

February 20, 2012: “‘Sprinting’ Chips Could Push Phones to the Speed Limit”. New Scientist article on Dr. Milo Martin’s research.

February 8, 2012: “Swarm of Mosquitoes? Nope, a Quad Rotor”. Check out the GRASP Lab being featured on NBC 10 News!

December 22, 2011: “With Sync Solved, Dropbox Squares Off With Apple’s iCloud” Benjamin Pierce’s research, the Unison file synchronizer, discussed in this Wired article.

December 1, 2011: Application Deadline to “Apply for the Philadelphia Area Aspirations in Computing Award:: extended to 12/01/11 (Select the PA competition on the map provided.)

November 18, 2011: Guidance Counselors and Teachers Day!

September 19, 2011: “Penn researchers work to make federal agents’ radios more secure” Matt Blaze and doctoral candidate, Sandy Clark’s research featured in the Inquirer.

June 2011: CIS Alum and Lecturer, Patrick Cozzi. has written a new book “3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes” (appeared June 2011).

May 4, 2010: PR2 Beta Robot – In an effort led by Maxim Likhachev, the GRASP Lab has been selected as one of 11 world-wide to receive a PR2 Beta Robot from Willow Garage. Details…

April 26, 2010: Congratulations to the GRASP Lab! Directed by Kostas Daniilidis, Penn has signed a cooperative agreement as a member of the Collaborative Technology Alliance (CTA), the agreement will be funded with an award of $9.8M over the next 5 years. Details…

April 8, 2010: “Digital Media Design Program Boldly Going Where No Engineers Have Gone Before” in the Penn Current.

Feb 4, 2010: The CIS Department served as a site for the 4th annual North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad, NACLO 2010 Competition.

Jan 12, 2010: “Time to make sure you know your tech” Metro article features the MCIT program and Dave Matuszek

Oct 4, 2009: “IT jobs will grow faster than general employment, according to Microsoft study” in the Seattle Times. Read More…

Sept 16, 2009: CIS awarded seed grant from Microsoft Research and the National Center for Women and IT…to support “Guidance Counselor and Computer Science Teacher Day,” a new initiative to encourage women to study Computer Science in college. View Press Release…

February 2009: Innovative New Master’s Degree Program in Embedded Systems – The newly emerging discipline of embedded systems lies at the intersection of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. The Master of Science in Engineering in Embedded Systems (EMBS) is an innovative and unique degree program, which trains students in the fundamentals of embedded systems and implementation.

Oct 29, 2008: Penn’s MCIT program in the Metro, “CS for Everyone”

Aug 18, 2008: Penn’s MCIT Program ranked in the top 10 Innovative Schools to Watch, more… “COMPUTERWORLD 2008 – IT Schools to Watch”