Welcome to the new Department of Computer Science. The merger of the Department of Information and Software Engineering with the Department of Computer Science is now complete. The former ISE graduate programs and certificates remain intact and will continue to operate under the administration of the new department.
The department offers BS, MS, and PhD programs in Computer Science; MS programs in Software Engineering, Information Systems, Information Security and Assurance, and E-Commerce; and a BS program in Applied Computer Science with various disciplines. The department also offers three concentrations in the PhD Program in Information Technology (in Information Systems, Information Security, and Software Engineering) and several graduate certificates.
Faculty in the department have research interests in networking, architecture, parallel and distributed computing, performance evaluation, software engineering, multimedia, graphics and visualization, databases, software engineering, data mining, security, information systems, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and robotics.
Overall we think a good initial showing, and lots of fun. Our three ties wound up placing us higher in the rankings than we had expected given our rookie status against strong, multi-year teams.
First three matches: 0-0 (including against Virginia Tech)
Fourth match: 5-0 loss to the ZJDancers of ZheJiang University, Shanghai
Fifth match: 9-0 loss to Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan (Virginia Tech also lost 9-0 to them!)
RoboCup is an autonomous robot soccer competition and multirobotics research conference. GMU is fielding a team for the first time in the small-size humanoid league. Students Keith Sullivan, Brian Hrolenok, and Christopher Vo, and Prof. Sean Luke are attending to a team of three custom-built humanoid robots in Graz Austria. More pictures after the jump...
The Department of Computer Science is offering nine courses this summer. This is a wonderful opportunity to get a jump start on your degree. Click on "more" for detailed list of this summer's course offerings
The Computer Science Department held it's 2008-2009 Awards Dinner on Wednesday May 13th in Dewberry Hall on the Fairfax campus. This event is held every year to honor the outstanding graduates of that academic year and to celebrate the achievements of our students, faculty and staff. Click on "more" for detailed list of this years award winners.
On April 17, 2009 the Computer Science Department moved to the new Engineering Building, located between the Aquatic and Fitness Center and Research I on the Fairfax campus. The Computer Science main Office is located on the 4th floor of the Engineering Building, in suite 4300.
The Computer Science Department publishes its first issue of the Computing News Newsletter. (more)
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Professor Carlotta Domeniconi receives the 2008 Mason Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Award. (more)
Professor Carlotta Domeniconi, Associate Professor of Computer Science, is one of the three recipients of the 2008 Mason Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Award. The award comes with a monetary cash prize of $3,000. Dr. Domeniconi's areas of expertise include machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, classification, clustering, feature relevance estimation, text mining, and bioinformatics. She is also a recipient of an NSF's CAREER award. The CS Department extends its congratulations to Dr. Domeniconi for this prestigious award.
Prof. Songqing Chen Receives NSF CAREER Award (more)
Prof. Chen received the National Science Foundation's CAREER award for his project entitled “Internet Resource Management to Deliver High Quality Live and On-demand Streaming for Wireless Clients.” The award is for $450K for five years.
Overall we think a good initial showing, and lots of fun. Our three ties wound up placing us higher in the rankings than we had expected given our rookie status against strong, multi-year teams.