| The computer science major prepares students for entry-level positions in industry as software engineers and systems analysts as well as for graduate study in computer science. The major follows the recommendations of the Association for Computing Machinery for undergraduate computer science education. The department placement rate since 1989 is 100 percent: every graduate obtained a position in the information technology industry or received funding to continue study at the graduate level. |
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The department has won four National Science Foundation grants to support student computing and research and maintains two computer labs that allow students to gain experience with both PCs and UNIX workstations. The Undergraduate Graphics Laboratory, funded in part by a National Science Foundation grant 9551854, supports the first three courses in the major sequence and two upper division courses. This PC-based lab features hardware support for recording graphical images to film and to videotape.
The Bonaventure Robotics Laboratory, funded in part by NSF grant 9980999, consists of eight Unix/Linux workstations that support large artificial intelligence and robotics systems as well as courses on networks, operating systems, artificial intelligence, and robotics and computer vision.
The Robotics Lab includes eight Khepera robots, four gripper modules for object manipulation, four vision turrets for two-dimensional image processing, and a full-sized Koala robot with on-board processor and camera.
Areas of faculty research are operating and distributed systems, robotics, artificial intelligence, database application development, graphics and software engineering. Junior and senior students often participate in related projects under faculty supervision.
Department labs as well as the University's academic Web site are maintained by undergraduates. Upper division students also serve teaching assistants in laboratory courses.
The Department of Computer Science maintains a Second Computer Science Web Site (located on the www.cs.sbu.edu server) with a wealth of additional information about the department.
For more information, contact the chair of the Department of Computer Science, Dr. Steven Andrianoff.
The Computer Science Web site is maintained by Dr. Chris Hill.