Welcome to the Department of Computer Science
The Department of Computer Science has grown tremendously in the last several years. We have doubled the number of tenure and tenure-track faculty members to 25 and have steeply increased our research footprint. Faculty in the Department of Computer Science conduct numerous research projects with funding from a variety of federal and state funding agencies, including five prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER awards. Research is conducted in areas such as algorithms, bioinformatics, computer and information security, computer architecture, computer networks, databases, high performance computing, parallel and distributed systems, programming languages and compilers, and software engineering among others.
The Department of Computer Science Mourns the Loss of a Great Professor, Dr. William Winsborough
Professor Winsborough will be affectionately remembered as a mentor for his junior colleagues and students. He would often spend long hours in his office working with them, thinking through problems, and eventually crystallizing solutions into elegant formalisms. He was deeply concerned for the well-being of the students under his care. On the evening before his death, he presided over a meeting of department faculty seeking to improve the department's curriculum with respect to computer science theory.
Will Winsborough was a gentle and approachable man who was always open to other's ideas. He is mourned by his colleagues and students around the world who extend their deepest sympathy to his family.