%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 +