Upsilon Pi Epsilon (ΥΠΕ) is the first honor society dedicated to the computing and information disciplines.
Upsilon Pi Epsilon was established at Texas A&M University in January 1967 as an honor society for computer information.
[1] Dr. Dan Drew, head of the university's Department of Computer Science, was the society's advisor and, later, its national president.
[4] The group expanded to other colleges in the United States and abroad, becoming the first international honor society for the computer and information disciplines.
[7] The UPE emblem or key features three symbols that are important historically to the computing and information disciplines: the zero, the one, and the abacus.
[3] Membership is available to undergraduate and graduate students in computer science who have a high grade point average.