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Introduction to the CU CS Dept.
Computer Science Department
University of Colorado at Boulder
Academic Year 1995/96
Introduction to the Department
General Information
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 B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees
in Computer Science. It prides itself on achieving excellence
at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
The Department currently has about 250 undergraduate majors,
80 masters students, and 80 Ph.D. students.
It has 25 faculty members, whose specialties include
artificial intelligence (human-computer interaction,
natural language processing, and neural networks),
compilers, databases, groupware, networks, numerical computation,
operating systems, parallel computation, programming languages,
software engineering, and theoretical computer science.
It offers undergraduate courses, graduate courses, and
research opportunities
in all of these areas.
The Department is particularly proud that five of its
faculty have been awarded National Science Foundation
(Presidential) Young Investigator awards, awarded nationally
to an elite group of young faculty who show particular promise
in teaching and research.
The undergraduate program has several features that distinguish
it nationally. One of these is a very successful year-long
senior projects course, taken by all majors, in which students
work in teams on significant projects mainly submitted by
industry. Another is a ground-blazing High Performance Scientific
Computing course sequence that has been adopted by many universities
nation-wide. The department has excellent
computing laboratory
facilities for its undergraduate students that are run almost
entirely by the students and offer excellent opportunities for
training in system administration.
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 internationally prominent research groups in human-computer
interaction, neural networks, and numerical and parallel computation,
and significant prominence in many other areas including
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.
Who's Who in the Department
There are a few essential folks in the Department:
Please contact Vicki or Arlene first for information about graduate or
undergraduate study in the Department.
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