Statistics:
| 28 active faculty |
| 212 graduate students |
The department is consistently ranked in the top 5 Computer Science programs for both its graduate and undergraduate programs. Created in 1965, it is one of the oldest CS departments in the country and home to two Turing Award winners. Undergraduates at Cornell can major in Computer Science from both the College of Arts and Sciences and from the College of Engineering.
Some of the areas of research in the CS department include applied logic, artificial intelligence, computer vision, databases, digital libraries, natural language processing, networking distributed systems, programming languages, scientific and engineering computing, systems, and theory. The department has close ties to industry and many students spend a summer or two working at an industrial research lab. The Computer Science department is located on floors 3 through 5 of Upson Hall (C6) and has some space in Rhodes Hall (CD6). Facilities include over 500 computers, and there is also a technical support staff.
The department of Computer Science also has close ties to the newly formed Office of Computing and Information Science. This new office was formed to draw together the role of computing in a range of disciplines across the entire university.