The Department of Computer Science is home to one of the largest groups of undergraduate majors in the university as well as to graduate students in Blacksburg and at the Northern Virginia Center. Students receive outstanding instruction from dedicated teachers, and undergraduate and graduate students alike join faculty members to perform research in a variety of state-of-the-art facilities, including a state-of-the-art technology building. The B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degree programs provide in-depth exposure to the core body of knowledge in the computing discipline, preparing graduates for careers or further study.

In July 2003, the department joined the College of Engineering after more than 30 years in the College of Arts and Sciences. The department's focus on the fundamental properties and processes associated with software is complemented by the discipline-centered application of software systems in other departments within the college.

The computer science major is software oriented, in contrast to the hardware-oriented computer engineering major. Computer science majors design and develop software, from the software systems that control the functioning of the computer such as operating systems and compilers to applications software for areas such as numerical analysis, graphics, and data bases.

• The Center for Human-Computer Interaction
• The Digital Libraries Research Laboratory
• The Internet Technology Innovation Center
• The Parallel Computation Laboratory
• The Problem Solving Environments Group
• The Simulation and Software Engineering Laboratory
• The Systems Research Center
• The Bioinformatics Collaborative Research Group
• The Laboratory for Computation, Information, and Distributed Processing
• The Laboratory for Advanced Scientific Computing and Applications
• The Center for Virtual Environments and Visualization

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