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The Department of Computer Science was founded in 1970, and has been part of the
College of Engineering and Applied Science
since 1980. The Department offers the
BS,
MS,
ME,
and
PhD
degrees in Computer Science, as well as a Computer Science
Minor.
It prides itself on achieving excellence at both
the undergraduate and graduate levels.
The Department offers both undergraduate and graduate degree programs:
- Undergraduate Program
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The undergraduate program has several features that distinguish it nationally.
One of these is a very successful year-long
senior projects course,
taken by nearly all majors, in which students work in teams on significant
projects mainly submitted by industry. Another is a trailblazing
High Performance Scientific Computing course sequence that has been adopted
by many universities nation wide. The department has excellent
Computer Science Educational Labs
for its undergraduate students that are run almost entirely by the students
and offer excellent opportunities for training in system administration.
- Graduate Program
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At the graduate education and research level, the department is one of the
leading departments in the nation, as measured by the prominence of its
research programs
and the placement of its students. It has prominent research
groups in human-computer interaction, neural networks, numerical and parallel
computation, databases, networks, software engineering, systems, and theoretical
computer science. Currently, its faculty and students are supported by
approximately $4 million annually in research grants, primarily from federal
agencies. In addition, the department has been the recipient of two consecutive
five-year research infrastructure grants from the National Science Foundation,
totaling roughly $5 million, and millions of dollars of grants for parallel
computers. These grants have produced excellent
computing facilities
for research and graduate education.
The Computer Science Department currently has
34
faculty,
192
graduate students
(103
masters students and
89
PhD students),
279
undergraduate majors,
54
undergraduate minors,
and
14
research and administrative staff.
It has strong research programs in computer architecture, operating systems,
networking, mobile computing, software engineering, programming languages,
databases, human computer interaction, machine learning, lifelong learning
and design, numerical and parallel computation, speech and language processing,
and theoretical computer science.
The Department of Computer Science maintains a variety of active collaborations
with the Departments of
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Aerospace Engineering Sciences,
Linguistics
and
Psychology;
the Institute of Cognitive Science,
the Center for LifeLong Learning and Design,
the Center for Computational Language and EducAtion Research,
TerraSpark Geosciences,
the College of Architecture and Planning,
and the
Colorado Health Sciences Center.
The mission of the Center for LifeLong Learning and Design is to establish,
both by theoretical work and by building prototype systems, the scientific
foundations for the construction of intelligent systems that serve as
amplifiers of human capabilities. The mission of the Center for Spoken Language
Research is to create the next generation of advanced dialogue systems --
systems that enable natural conversational interaction between people and
machines to accomplish specific tasks.
The Department has received four successive five-year NSF, CER, and RI awards
to support its computing infrastructure and collaborative research among its
faculty, most recently for the period 2000-2005. Our faculty were instrumental
in the recently announced largest gift ever given to an American public
university. This $250 million gift will establish an endowment to fund advanced
research and development of innovative technologies that enhance the lives of
people with cognitive disabilities.
In the most recent NSF Information Technology Research competition our faculty
participated in proposals funded for more than $13.5M. The Department is a
member of the ARPA National Consortium in High Performance Computing and was a
recipient of an NSF Educational Infrastructure Grant to promote undergraduate
courses in high performance scientific computing. Five of our faculty have been
designated NSF Presidential Young Investigators, and one faculty member was the
recipient (out of only twenty nationwide) of a five-year Packard Fellowship.
At Colorado, we are committed to the ideals of the research university as a
special institution in our society, creating important knowledge, partnering
with industry to develop technology that improves peoples lives, and at the
same time, changing the lives of young people.
There is much more information about the Department of Computer Science
available on this website. See the following quick links to items of
particular interest to various groups:
- Current Computer Science ...
- Prospective Computer Science ...
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