 PSC was founded in 1986 by its two scientific directors, Dr. Ralph Roskies of the University of Pittsburgh and Dr. Michael Levine of Carnegie Mellon University.PSC is a leading partner in the TeraGrid, the National Science Foundation's cyberinfrastructure program.The Robotics Institute (RI) is a division of the School of Computer Science and considered to be one of the leading centers of robotics research in the world.