DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
About the Department of Computer Science
The Department of Computer Science is home to a eclectic mix of students and faculty, a fact we celebrate at our core. We provide an unmatched education to students in the region, and we're proud of it.
The Runner, the Rocker, and the Buzztime Doctor
How eclectic are we? We have a Boston Marathon runner, a closet rock star and an avid tennis player. And that doesn't even include Gary Newell, the self-described "mean-looking bald guy" who plays competitive trivia games on Buzztime in his spare time.
We focus on learning
We produce graduates who are highly capable problem solvers: intellectually agile, technically skilled, ethically responsible, and strongly creative. We collaborate with the sciences, mathematics, business, health care, humanities, media, journalism, and the arts. Small classes and an emphasis on teaching excellence are central to the quality education we provide.
Photo by Ricky Bankemper, NKU student
We focus on community
The communities where we live and work should benefit directly from our faculty's expertise and our students' efforts. And they do.
Using a $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, the department and its' students run educational workshops in Erlanger for Hispanic immigrant families, where they learn about computing and how computers are assembled. At the end of each workshop, these families receive a Dell computer to take home.
Throughout the year, the department hosts many other outreach activities, like the 2007 Summer Computing Workshop and an iSpace Robotics mentoring program for Hispanic middle school girls.
We focus on research
Our faculty conducts traditional research, providing technological innovation in hardware and software that contribute to the teaching of computer science and information technology world-wide.
We connect this work with student experience, sometimes by providing student research opportunities and sometimes by feeding scientific and real-world experience right back into the classroom.
