Welcome to Computer Science www.umassd.edu/engineering/computer Open House, November 3, 2002

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Welcome to Computer Sciencewww.umassd.edu/engine
ering/computerOpen House, November 3, 2002

• Presentation by
• Dr. Boleslaw Mikolajczak Chairperson
• Computer Information Science Department
• College of Engineering

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Computer SciencePresentation - Table of Contents
UMass Dartmouth

• 1. Computer Science - labor market trends
• 2. Computer Science - discipline
• 3. B.S. in Computer Science Program at UMASS
  Dartmouth
• 4. Computer and Information Science Department at
  UMASS Dartmouth

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1.Computing-labor market trends
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1.Computing-labor market trends
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1.Computing-labor market trends
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1.Computing-labor market trends
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1. Salary Statistics - Computer Science
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1. Computer jobs.com Salary Survey
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2. Computer Science - discipline

• What is Computer Science?
• Studying algorithmic mechanisms of computational
  processes independently of the application
  domain, i.e. how to solve problems of a society
  by means of computers.
• It has often been said that a person does not
  really understand something until he teaches it
  to someone else. Actually a person does not
  really understand something until he can teach it
  to a computer, i.e. express it as an algorithm.
  Donald Knuth

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2. Disciplines within Computer Science

• Algorithms and data structure
• Programming languages
• Computer Architecture
• Numerical and symbolic computation
• Operating systems
• Software methodology and engineering
• Databases and information management
• Artificial intelligence/Intelligent
  Systems/Robotics
• Human-computer communication
• Net-Centric Computing and Internet Computing
• Computational Science

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2. Computing - relationship to other domains
Medicine
Science
Computing
Computer Science
Business
Entertainment
Engineering
Humanities
Art
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2. What Computer Scientists do...

• Design and implement algorithms in forms of
  software
• Design/implement algorithms using programming
  languages as a way of communications with
  hardware
• Design, implement, test and maintain a marketable
  product called software, i.e. software
  manufacturing

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2. Computer Scientists include...

• Software Engineers
• Model, analyze, design and maintain software
• Systems Programmers
• Develop and maintain system software
  assemblers, macro assemblers, compilers, and
  operating systems
• Systems Administrators
• Administer computer systems and local area
  networks
• Computer Network Specialists
• Design and implement computer networks, Internet
  and Intranet software systems

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2. Computer Scientists include...

• Information System Programmers
• Analyze, design and maintain information systems
  for business, management, and process control
• Object Technology Specialists
• Model, analyze, design and maintain software
  built in the object technology (Java and C)
• Database System Specialists
• Model, analyze, design and maintain
  decision-support and expert systems based on
  database machines

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2. The future of computer science is in

• Multi-windowed user interfaces with multimedia
  systems
• Large databases (data warehouses)
• Local and global area networks
• Parallel, distributed and real-time computing
• Highly complex system specifications
• Group efforts (in software development)
• Effective communication of results

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2. Future agenda... software engineering

• Design languages that permit programmers to
  operate at more productive levels
• Software engineering environments and databases
  that provide automated support (CASE tools)
• Graphics and human interfaces that facilitate
  human understanding of large software systems

• Design for reusability that would allow software
  created for one application to be adopted to use
  in another
• Automated systems for program specifications,
  verification and testing to ensure systems
  correctness
• Techniques for system maintenance that facilitate
  error correction, security and system evolution

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2. Future Agenda ... Parallelism

• Component Design processors, memory systems,
  interconnection, networks optimized for parallel
  operation
• Architecture how to organize components in ways
  that maximize their programmability
• Languages and Language Implementation automatic
  extraction of parallelism inherent in serial
  code developing natural languages for parallel
  programming
• Algorithms and Applications limits on parallel
  computation effective parallel algorithms
• Distributed Computing how to manage loosely
  coupled and geographically separated processors

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3. B. S. in Computer Science at UMASS Dartmouth

• ABET/CAC accredited program since 1987
• software track, system track, fundamentals track
• intellectual control over software development
• role of design in computer systems development
• group projects
• supervised labs
• quality of instruction (small section size)
• faculty active in research and professional
  development
• Cooperative Learning Program Internship Program

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4. Department of Computer Information Science
Faculty

• 1. Dr. Emad Aboelela
• computer networks, fuzzy computing systems
• 2. Dr. Ramprasad Balsubramanian
• computer vision, image processing, pattern
  recognition
• 3. Dr. Jan Bergandy
• distributed systems, software engineering,
  object technology
• 4. Dr. Paul Bergstein
• object-oriented software development, databases
• 5. Dr. Eugene Eberbach
• parallel and distributed computing, evolutionary
  computing
• 6. Dr. Adam Hausknecht
• symbolic computations, foundations of computer
  science

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4. Department of Computer Information
ScienceFaculty (continued)

• 7. Full-time Instructor Khalid Kattan
• procedural and OO computer programming, computer
  fluency
• 8. Dr. Anish Mathuria
• networks, security, cryptographic protocols,
  electronic commerce
• 9. Dr. Boleslaw Mikolajczak
• parallel and distributed computing and software
  development
• 10. Professor Richard Upchurch
• software engineering, human-computer interaction
• 11. Dr. Iren Valova
• artificial intelligence, neural networks,
  pattern recognition
• 12. Dr. Shelley Zhang
• artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems
• 2 new full-time faculty in Fall 2003

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4. Computer Science at UMASS Dartmouth -Programs
and Departmental Characteristics

• integration of object-oriented and procedural
  software development
• integration of professional (60) and general
  (40) education
• solving Bermuda triangle of education to know,
  to understand, and to be able to apply
• Concepts, Capabilities, Skills
• MS in Computer Science (Ph. D. in Computer
  Science, in preparation)

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4. Computer Information Science Department at
UMASS Dartmouth - Student Services Resources

• honors courses, projects and honors course
  extensions
• tutoring services
• active Student Chapter of the Association for
  Computing Machinery
• two platforms of equipment - Windows and Linux
• labs open for student work - week days and
  weekends
• Teaching Assistants serve in labs and as tutors
• Specialized labs parallel and distributed
  computing, computer vision, mobile robotics,
  neural and adaptive computing, computer networks

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4. Number of Computer Science Majors 1996 -
2002