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University of Arizona's Computer Science Department is a quality
research program. The most recent National Research Council rankings
place the department 33rd out of 108 PhD-granting institutions
nationwide, despite the fact that it is a comparatively small
department. In addition, they have the best Computer Science
department of their size among publicly funded Universities, with
the highest in number of citations (references) per faculty, and
17th overall in the number of publications per faculty. Another
measure of their research productivity includes awards of external
research funding in excess of $2.5 million from such prestigious
sources as DARPA, INTEL, and NSF, including their third 5-year
Research Infrastructure awarded in 1998. Their faculty serve on the
editorial boards of a variety of journals, serve on program
committees, publish books, and serve as fellows and chairs of
organizations within the ACM and IEEE. In terms of teaching, their
undergraduate and graduate curriculum provides a timely and
well-rounded view of the field, with special emphasis on the
practical aspects of building useful software. Their strengths lie
in the traditional mainstream of areas of computer science:
algorithms, programming languages, operating systems, distributed
computing, networks, databases and theory of computing. They also
offer introductory courses in some subfields: graphics, artificial
intelligence and the software aspects of computer architecture. The
department's programs prepare students for positions in the design
and development of computer systems and applications, in business
and industry, and for scientific positions in industrial or academic
computing research. The Computer Science department was established
in 1973 as a graduate department offering masters and doctoral
degrees. An undergraduate program was initiated in 1989. They
currently have 13 faculty members, 3 lecturers, 5 technical support
staff, and 4 research programmers affiliated with specific funding.
The graduate program contains 54 MS students, 21 PhD candidates: the
undergraduate program has 170 bachelors students and 300+
pre-majors. There are three Computing Laboratories available to
students. Harvill 332B houses a 31-station PentiumPro/Win NT lab,
and Gould-Simpson 228 is a 50-station Xterm & PentiumII/Linux
lab. All students receive accounts on the main instructional
machine; a SparcServer 1000/6 cycle server, and have access to
100Mb/s switched Ethernet connections. Our Research Lab contains
numerous Pentium WinNT/Linux systems and is supported by a 64-node
Pentium cluster, a 8-node Alpha/P6 cluster and two Network Appliance
file servers with 154GB's space available. This lab is used by
graduate students and faculty for research projects.
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