%SECTION            Academic Unit
%Country            USA-PA, Pittsburgh
%Shortname          Univ. of Pittsburgh, Library & Information Science
%Institution        University of Pittsburgh
%Unit               School of Library and Information Science
%Center             Department of Information Science
%Address            135 N. Bellefield Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
%Phone              +01-412-624-5146
%Fax                +01-412-624-9424
%Email              strauss@lis.pitt.edu
%Contact            Susan Strauss
%Updated            1994-04-01
%Degrees            MSIS, Ph.D. in IS
%HCI_MS_Theses      1
%HCI_PhD_Theses     2
%HCI_MS_Current     6
%HCI_PhD_Current    8
%Description Information science at the University of Pittsburgh
is the study of computer technologies, various engineering
techniques, and scientific principles combined with the concepts
of human cognition in order to design, implement, and manage
information systems. The discipline includes technical components
such as computer programming, system design, telecommunications,
database management systems, and microcomputers, as well as
humanistic components such as human factors in system design,
human information processing, and interactive system design.
   The Department of Information Science at Pitt offers three
graduate programs -- the Master of Science in Information Science
(MSIS), the Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS), and the PhD. It
also co-sponsors the Master of Science in Telecommunications
(MST) program.  Courses are offered both day and evening for the
convenience of full- and part-time students.
   The MSIS is a 36-credit program which can be completed in one
year of full-time or two years of part-time study. Several
specific course sequences or tracks have been developed for
students with specific interests, such as the System Specialist
Track, System Designer Track, and Artificial Intelligence Track.
   The 24-credit CAS program provides a structured, personalized
program of studies beyond the masters degree. Designed for people
who do not wish to pursue the PhD degree, it allows students to
explore a special field of interest or to update skills and
competencies.
   Students in the PhD program will pursue the development of
superior scholarship, mastery of a specialized field of
knowledge, and the ability to do significant and relevant
research. A detailed description of the PhD program is available
upon request.
%Facilities Students have access to six department computing
laboratories housed in the same building where classes are
taught. Equipment includes a variety of microcomputers (IBM PCs,
compatibles, and Macintoshes), Sun Sparcstations, III's, and
II's, and an SGI graphics workstation, all networked within the
department to a Sun IV Server.  Three labs contain equipment for
the telecommunications program including a full array of test
equipment, multiple networks, and a private telephone switch.
   University computer facilities include a VAX cluster running
both Ultrix and VMS. The cluster include a VAX 9000, VAX 6250,
VAX 8820, VAX 8800, a VAX 9000/210 Vector Processor.  A number of
VAX 5000's have been added to the network in specialized server
roles in support of AFS.  The multiple private and public
university ethernets are linked by an FDDI backbone which
includes such specialized resources as a Cray Y-MP supercomputer,
a connection machine, a graphics and CAD laboratory, and nine
microcomputer laboratories located in other campus buildings.

%SECTION            HCI Program
%Contact            Mike Lewis
%Phone              +01-412-624-9426
%Email              ml@icarus.lis.pitt.edu
%Contact            Michael Spring
%Phone              +01-412-624-9429
%Email              spring@icarus.lis.pitt.edu
%Title              Assistant Professor
%FAX                +01-412-624-5231
%Address            Department of Information Science
University of Pittsburgh
135 N. Bellefield Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
%Program Our department treats both human cognition and computer
technology as equally important instances of information
processing making HCI the core interest of our department.  HCI
focused courses include:
 * Human Factors
 * Interactive Systems
 * Foundations of Cognitive Science
 * Human Information Processing
 * AI
 * Natural Language Processing
 * Software Engineering
 * Information Retrieval
 * Document Processing
 * Standards
 * PDP
 * Systems Analysis and Design
%Other_Contacts +

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               Marek J. Druzdzel
%Title              Assistant Professor
%Degree             Ph.D., 1992, Carnegie Mellon University
%Phone              +01-412-624-9432
%Email              marek@lis.pitt.edu
%Interests +
 * Human cognition under uncertainty
 * Probabilistic and decision-theoretic reasoning
 * Decision support systems
 * Human interfaces to decision support systems
%Publications +
 * Marek J. Druzdzel and Herbert A. Simon (1993), "Causality in
   Bayesian belief networks." In Proceedings of the Ninth Annual
   Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-93),
   pages 3-11, Washington, DC, July 9-11.
 * Marek J. Druzdzel and Max Henrion (1993), "Efficient reasoning
   in qualitative probabilistic networks." In Proceedings of the
   11th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-93),
   pages 548-553, Washington, DC, July 11-15.
 * Max Henrion and Marek J. Druzdzel (1991), "Qualitative
   propagation and scenario-based approaches to explanation of
   probabilistic reasoning." In Uncertainty in Artificial
   Intelligence 6, P.P. Bonissone, M. Henrion, L.N. Kanal, and
   J.F. Lemmer (eds), Machine Intelligence and Pattern
   Recognition 12, pages 17-32, Elsevier, North Holland:
   Amsterdam.

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               Stephen Hirtle
%Title              Chair & Associate Professor
%Degree             Ph.D., U. MI psychology
%Phone              +01-412-624-9434
%Email              sch@lis.pitt.edu
%Interests +
 * Cognitive science
 * mathematical models
 * mental representations
 * spatial memory
 * problem solving
 * research design
 * geographic information systems
%Publications +

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               Robert Korfhage
%Title              Professor
%Degree             Ph.D., U. MI, math
%Phone              +01-412-624-9420
%Email              korfhage@lis.pitt.edu
%Interests +
 * Information storage and retrieval
 * natural languages
 * artificial intelligence
 * data structures
 * storage requirements
 * database machines
 * hypergraphs
 * information networks
 * CAI
%Publications +

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               Mike Lewis
%Title              Associate Professor
%Degree             Ph.D., 1986, Georgia Tech, engineering psych
%Phone              +01-412-624-9426
%Email              ml@icarus.lis.pitt.edu
%Interests +
 * Visual inference/visualization
 * Ecological cognitive modeling
 * Human reliability
 * process control
 * virtual reality
%Publications +
 * Lewis, M. & Spoor, R. (1993). Thinking with a mouse, 15th
   Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
 * Lewis, M. & Weise, C. (1993). Situation theoretic methods for
   display design, Proceedings of the Topical Meeting on Nuclear
   Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Man-Machine Interface
   Technologies, Oak Ridge, TN, April 18-21.
 * Lewis, M. & Toth J. (1992). Situated cognition in diagrammatic
   reasoning, Working Notes AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford, CA,
   47-52.

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               Dirk Mahling
%Title              Assistant Professor
%Degree             Ph.D., U. MA, computer science
%Phone              +01-412-624-5144
%Email              mahling@lis.pitt.edu
%Interests +
 * CSCW
 * Computer Supported Cooperative Learning
 * Goal-based Workflow
 * visual languages
%Publications +
 * Mahling, Dirk (1993). Cognitive Aspects of Visual Languages and
   Visual interfaces. Series: Human Factors in Information
   Technology, Elsevier Publishers, Amsterdam.
 * Mahling, Dirk (1993). Acquisition and support of goal-based
   tasks, Knowledge Acquisition Journal.
 * Mahling, Dirk (1992). Visual Interaction between End Users and
   Goal Based Systems, International Journal of Visual Computing
   and Languages.

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               Douglas Metzler
%Title              Associate Professor
%Degree             
%Phone              +01-412-624-9414
%Email              metzler@lis.pitt.edu
%Interests +
 * Artificial intelligence
 * cognitive science
 * knowledge representation
 * natural language processing
 * expert systems
 * cognitive modeling
 * intelligent tutoring systems
 * research methods & statistics
%Publications +

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               Paul Munro
%Title              Assistant Professor
%Degree             
%Phone              +01-412-624-9427
%Email              munro@lis.pitt.edu
%Interests +
 * Connectionist systems
 * neural information processing
 * image processing
 * modeling and simulation
 * cognitive science
 * models of learning
%Publications +

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               Kenneth Sochats
%Title              Lecturer
%Degree             
%Phone              +01-412-624-9416
%Email              sochats@lis.pitt.edu
%Interests +
 * Information networks
 * simulation
 * data bases
 * artificial intelligence
 * Management Information Systems (MIS)
 * systems analysis and design
 * software engineering
 * network design
 * microcomputer applications
 * graphics
%Publications +

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               Michael B. Spring
%Title              Assistant Professor
%Degree             Ph.D.,
%Phone              +01-412-624-9429
%Email              spring@lis.pitt.edu
%Interests +
 * Interactive system design
 * interface design
 * document processing
 * office automation
 * information technology standards and standardization
%Publications +

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               Richard A. Thompson
%Title              Professor
%Degree             
%Phone              +01-412-624-9423
%Email              rat@lis.pitt.edu
%Interests +
 * Communications switching systems, especially photonic switching
   terminals user services, and the human interface
 * fault tolerance and cellular automata
 * probabilistic formal languages
%Publications +

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               Martin Weiss
%Title              Assistant Professor
%Degree             
%Phone              +01-412-624-9430
%Email              mbw@lis.pitt.edu
%Interests +
 * Network management and control
 * capacity management and planning
 * standards and standardization
 * transmission systems
 * telecommunications policy
%Publications +

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               James G. Williams
%Title              Professor
%Degree             
%Phone              +01-412-624-9418
%Email              jim@lis.pitt.edu
%Interests +
 * Automation
 * data processing
 * information science
 * information systems
 * networks
 * systems analysis and design
 * software engineering
 * simulation
%Publications +

