DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Subjects covered.
 

Undergraduate	Graduate
Very important	Very important
Computer networks	Algorithms
	Artificial intelligence and Intelligent Sytems
	---Logic programming
	---Machine learning
	---Neural networks
	Computation theory
	Computational biology
	Distributed processing
	Parallel processing
Important	Important
Compiler design	Approximate reasoning
Computer graphics	Bioinformatics
Computer networks	Computational geometry
Computer security	Cryptography
Data Structures	Image processing
Database systems	Pattern recognition
Mobile Communications
Multimedia systems
Object oriented programming
Programming languages
Software engineering
User interfaces
Somewhat important	Somewhat important
	Fault tolerant computing (software only)
	Functional programming
	Genetic algorithms
	Information theory
	Natural language processing (more ECE)
	Speech processing

Degrees granted.  The Computer Science Department offers the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering jointly with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

Research focus.  The notable research areas within the department are: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Networks. They are developing a concentration in Computer Security as well.
 

Dorothy Byers
July 31, 2007