Computer Science
Study of how to represent, process, and solve problems using computation and algorithms.
Mission Statement
Technology moves fast; what matters is who's steering it, and why. The Computer Science Area trains people to ask better questions, not just answer faster, building the judgment that will direct computing across medicine, policy, science, and design.
Department Overview
Mobile software. Artificial intelligence. Cybersecurity. Smart healthcare systems that catch what a chart might miss. Computer scientists are building the technology reshaping how we live, and the demand for people who can direct it well has never been higher.
The Computer Science Area trains those people. We rebuild our curricula around what the field needs today, because the challenges of this century move faster than any syllabus. Science, policy, medicine, design: computing touches all of it, and the best answers come from people who can move between them. That's the interdisciplinary approach we build into everything we teach.