Research
The School is also recognized for its research. Located in its building are labs for Geoinformatics, Telecommunications, ULab and Personalized Adaptive Web Systems, along with LERSAIS, an acronym for the Laboratory of Education and Research on Security Assured Information Systems. There are also several active research groups working on various fileds like IR@Pitt, Spatial Information Research Group, Group for Research on Idealized Neural Systems
In 2010 alone, the School’s faculty had its work featured in nearly 120 publications.
As of 2012, ongoing research projects included:
- a study by Daqing He entitled "Tapping into Public Academic Information on the Social Web: Towards a Novel Academic Recommendation Framework," which seeks to develop a quality assessment and an association discovery framework for online academic information - ultimately to establish a novel framework for supporting researchers in accessing, organizing, utilizing, and exchanging all types of academic information.
- a study by Mary K. Biagini to assess public school library resources and services available to Pennsylvania students in kindergarten through grade 12
- a study of Modeling Synergies in Large Human-Machine Networked Systems by C. Michael Lewis
- an exploration by Peter Brusilovsky to use social data to model and visualize latent coherent communities that exist within social systems
- a study entitled "War, Memory, and the Archival Impulse," by Richard Cox
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