The School of Computer Science is an
academic unit located within the
College of Computing at the
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Georgia Tech, GT, and simply Tech or the Institute) is a public university, public research university and Institute of technology (United States), institute of technology in Atlanta, ...
(Georgia Tech). It conducts both research and teaching activities related to
computer science
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at the undergraduate and graduate levels. These activities focus on the roots of the
computing
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discipline, including mathematical foundations and system building principles and practices.
History
The School of Computer Science was formed in February 2007, when the former Computing Science and Systems Division was renamed and promoted to "School" status.
Ellen Zegura was appointed as the school's first chair. Along with its sibling academic unit, the
School of Interactive Computing, the School of Computer Science represents the first time a college-level
computing
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program has delineated the field into separate but related bodies of study.
In July 2012,
Lance Fortnow
Lance Jeremy Fortnow (born August 15, 1963) is a computer scientist known for major results in Computational complexity theory, computational complexity and interactive proof systems. Since 2019, he has been at the Illinois Institute of Technology ...
, formerly at
Northwestern University
Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...
, replaced Zegura as school chair.
During Fornow's time as chair, the number of pre-tenure faculty in the school more than doubled, and the total faculty grew to 37 members. Fortnow departed his role as chair in 2019 to accept a position as Dean of Science at the
Illinois Institute of Technology
The Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Illinois Tech and IIT, is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Tracing its history to 1890, the present name was adopted upon the m ...
. Mostafa Ammar served as interim chair until
Vivek Sarkar was named school chair in July 2020.
Degrees offered
The School of Computer Science offers
bachelor's degree
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s,
master's degree
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s, and
doctoral degrees
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in several fields. These degrees are technically granted by the School's parent organization, the Georgia Tech College of Computing, and often awarded in conjunction with other academic units within Georgia Tech.
Doctoral degrees
*
Ph.D.
A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...
in
Computer Science
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* Ph.D. in
Bioengineering
Biological engineering or
bioengineering is the application of principles of biology and the tools of engineering to create usable, tangible, economically viable products. Biological engineering employs knowledge and expertise from a number ...
* Ph.D. in
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field of science that develops methods and Bioinformatics software, software tools for understanding biological data, especially when the data sets are large and complex. Bioinformatics uses biology, ...
* Ph.D. in
Algorithm
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s,
Combinatorics
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&
Optimization
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Master's degrees
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M.S.
A Master of Science (; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree. In contrast to the Master of Arts degree, the Master of Science degree is typically granted for studies in sciences, engineering and medicine ...
in Computer Science
* M.S. in Bioengineering
* M.S. in
Information Security
Information security is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. It typically involves preventing or reducing the probability of unauthorized or inappropriate access to data ...
Bachelor's degrees
*
B.S. in Computer Science
Notable faculty
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Tom Conte
*
Lance Fortnow
Lance Jeremy Fortnow (born August 15, 1963) is a computer scientist known for major results in Computational complexity theory, computational complexity and interactive proof systems. Since 2019, he has been at the Illinois Institute of Technology ...
*
Richard J. Lipton
*
Ralph Merkle
Ralph C. Merkle (born February 2, 1952) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is one of the inventors of public-key cryptography, the inventor of cryptographic hashing, and more recently a researcher and speaker on cryonics.
M ...
*
Dana Randall
Dana Randall is an American computer scientist. She is a professor of computer science and adjunct professor of mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is also an external professor of the Santa Fe Institute. Previously she was ...
*
Vijay Vazirani
Vijay Virkumar Vazirani (; b. 1957) is an Indian American distinguished professor of computer science in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.
Education and career
Vazirani first maj ...
*
Karsten Schwan
Karsten Schwan (August 21, 1952 – September 28, 2015) was an American computer pioneer, academic who had held the position of professor of computer science and the director of Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS) at the G ...
*
Santosh Vempala
Location
The School of Computer Science's administrative offices were located in the College of Computing Building on Georgia Tech's Central Campus. Additionally, many College of Computing faculty and graduate students had offices in this building until recently. In 2006, the
Klaus Advanced Computing Building
The Christopher W. Klaus Advanced Computing Building is a three-story academic building at the Georgia Institute of Technology that houses a portion of its Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, College of Computing, Georgia Institut ...
, donated by Georgia Tech alum
Chris Klaus
Christopher W. Klaus (born 1973 in Sarasota, Florida) is an American technology entrepreneur. He was founder and CTO of Internet Security Systems (ISS), a company which he started in the early 1990s, and then sold to IBM in 2006 for $1.3B.
He a ...
, was completed to provide additional offices, laboratories, and classrooms for the College of Computing. All of the School of Computer Science personnel have since moved to the second and third floor of the Klaus Building.
See also
*
Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing
The College of Computing is a college of the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Public university, public research university in Atlanta, Georgia. It is divided into four schools: the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Computer Science, ...
*
GVU Center
References
External links
Georgia Institute of Technology School of Computer Science
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Computer science departments in the United States
Educational institutions established in 2007
2007 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Computer science institutes