Upsilon Pi Epsilon is the first and only international honor society for the Computing Sciences. It was founded in 1967 by six students at Texas A&M University to recognize scholarship and professionalism. In the years since then, over 120 institutions of higher education around the world have established UPE chapters to honor their students; many chapters also honor faculty with membership.

Chapters have been chartered at colleges and universities in departments offering degrees in computing-related disciplines, including departments of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Computer Information Systems.

Membership in UPE is limited to candidates who can effectively achieve the goals of the society:

• recognition of outstanding talent in the computing sciences
• promotion of high scholarship in the computing sciences
• establishment and maintenance of high standards
• representation of the computing sciences in interdisciplinary communications
• encouragement of individual contributions to society through the computing sciences