Tech Science Archives - Page 13 of 21

PeopleSoft now portable

By Rio Maropis / For The Pitt News • September 1, 2015

In a tech-savvy generation, Peoplesoft needed an upgrade. In July, Pitt released a mobile app for PeopleSoft, a previously web-only platform for students to access class information, academic progress...

In Case You Missed It…

By The Pitt News Staff • August 30, 2015

May 12 - Pitt to build Iranian Nationality Room After two unsuccessful attempts dating to 1958, Pitt will transform room 352 of the Cathedral of Learning into an Iranian Nationality Room — once...

‘Digital plaza’ coming to Oakland

By Elizabeth Lepro / Assistant News Editor • August 30, 2015

This fall, an organization will seek to install a high-tech art exhibition in Oakland. Innovation Oakland, a project that aims to transform the streets of Oakland into a digital community, plans to...

Uber paves way to success for Pittsburgh engineers

By Elizabeth Lepro / Assistant News Editor • June 9, 2015

Uber is growing far beyond an app, and it's riding on Pittsburgh engineers to expand. Uber, the international rideshare company, opened its Advanced Technologies Center (ATC) in Pittsburgh in February...

Instagram says…

By Stephen Caruso / Layout Editor • May 26, 2015

Not green enough: After Year of Sustainability, campus environmentalists say Pitt should have done more

By Mark Pesto / Staff Writer • May 26, 2015

Pitt is one of the greenest colleges in the U.S., according to a new Princeton Review rating, but some student activists are still not satisfied.At the end of April, Pitt completed its first-ever Year...

Instagram says emoji could be a new form of language, experts, students are not so sure

By Alexis Mazzeo / For the Pitt News • May 26, 2015

Scott Fahlman didn’t mean to start a trend.When Fahlman, a computer science researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, would communicate with colleagues on online message boards in the early 1980s, he...

The Pittsburgh Marathon

By Theo Schwarz / Visual Editor • May 5, 2015

The toll of twenty-six point two

By Dale Shoemaker / News Editor • May 5, 2015

At the starting line Sunday morning, Pitt students Kimberly Goehring and Shea McMurtry were worried their feet and ankles might not hold up.Goehring and McMurtry lined up in the heart of downtown Pittsburgh...

Pitt to give CourseWeb a makeover

By Dale Shoemaker / News Editor • April 29, 2015

After this weekend, students will no longer see dropped and withdrawn courses still haunting their CourseWeb profiles.Pitt will upgrade multiple components of CourseWeb from Thursday, April 30 to Sunday...