Computer & Information Science

Undergraduate Admissions

Graduate Admissions

View SEAS Calendar

View Video overview of CIS Master's programs
...CIS/MSE, MCIT, CGGT, Robotics, & EMBS Master's Programs
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Congratulations to Adam Aviv...
a CIS PhD Student, being appointed a CTL Graduate Fellow for Teaching Excellence for 2010-11. Only 12 fellows from across the university this year were selected.
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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...
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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...
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Congratulations to Benjamin Gojman and Joe Kider...
for receiving this year's Penn Prize for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching.
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"Digital Media Design Program Boldly Going Where No Engineers Have Gone Before"
Read More in the Penn Current
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NEW CIS SPRING 2010 NEWSLETTER!!!
Check it out today...
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WICS HIGH SCHOOL DAY FOR GIRLS
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
...introducing girls to the exciting field of Computer Science!

WICS is supported in part by the Trustees Council of Penn Women.

Register, View Program and Photos from the WICS High School Day for Girls 2008 and 2009.
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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...
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"Time to make sure you know your tech"
Metro article features the MCIT program and Dave Matuszek
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"IT jobs will grow faster than general employment, according to Microsoft study"
Read More...
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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's 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.
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Weiss Professor Susan Davidson
Department Chair
"Inspiring Leadership in Computer Science"

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Otto Hahn Medal

Andreas Haeberlen will be awarded the Otto Hahn Medal, awarded by the Max Planck Society for outstanding scientific achievements (forthcoming, June 16, 2010).

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2010 LICS Test-of-Time Award

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".

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Lindback Award and DARPA ISAT Advisory Panel

Zack Ives received the Lindback Award, the highest teaching award at the University level given in recognition of "distinguished teaching." Dr. Ives was also selected to the DARPA Information Science And Technology (ISAT) Advisory Panel earlier this year.

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S. Reid Warren Award

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."

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Guggenheim Fellowship
	Secondary faculty member, Junhyong Kim, Co-Director of the PGFI, has just been awarded a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship, entitled - "Genome-Scale Higher Order Evolution"

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ONR Young Investigator Program and the Alfred P. Sloan 2010 Research Fellowship Award
		Ben Taskar has been named, as one of17, for the Office of Naval Research's 2010 Young Investigator Program recipients. Dr. Taskar has also been awarded the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan 2010 Research Fellowship Award in the field of Computer Science.

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NSF CAREER Award
	Sasha Rakhlin, CIS secondary assistant professor, received an NSF CAREER Award for his research, "Statistical and Computational Complexities of Modern Learning Problems" .

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NSF CAREER Award
	Ani Nenkova received an NSF CAREER Award for research, "Capturing Content and Linguistic Quality in Automatic Extractive and Abstractive Summarization."

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

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Additional Faculty and Student Awards

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NEWSLETTERS
In the Loop @ CIS Newsletter, Spring 2010
Annual GRASP Newsletter Summer 09
CG@Penn Newletter! Issue 3, Summer 2009

The cis dept....would like to WeLcome our freshman and welcome back our returning students!!!

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FAll Distinguished LECTURE SERIES

Martin C. Rinard
Tuesday, September 14th
Wu & Chen at 3pm
"TBA"

Faculty research presentations

GRASP LAB SEMINAR

Precise Lab Seminar

MKSE Lecture SERies

Saul Gorn Memorial Lecture

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CIS 401 Senior Design Projects
Tuesday, April 27th

1st Place - Jay Fiddelman (adv: Ungar)
2nd Place - Andrew Schaye & Matthew Feczko (adv: Marcus & Nenkova)
3rd Place - Sam Lerer, Eric Tieniber (adv: Smith)

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Academic Calendar

Sept 6th
Labor Day - No Class

Sept 8th
Fall Term Classes Start

Oct 9th - Oct 12th
Fall Break

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New Space Reservation Web Site

In conjunction with CETS and specifically David Brubaker, the Dean’s Office has implemented an online calendar and reservation system for all of the School’s public meeting spaces as well as a number of the departmental spaces. You can access the new site at: https://www.seas.upenn.edu/about-seas/room-reservation/

Once logged in with your PennKey and password, you can view availability for each space by clicking the “Check Availability” link located in the far right column . To formally reserve a space, we now require that you complete the room reservation form which can be accessed by clicking the “Request a Room” button located in the upper left of each screen.

Once your request is submitted it will be routed to the respective room manager who will respond with a confirmation email.

I hope that you find this new system easy to use; however, if you experience any difficulty or have insights that could improve the system, I invite you to share them at seas-space@seas.upenn.edu.

Chambrel Jones
Office of the Dean School of Engineering and Applied Science


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