Welcome to WPI Computer Science!

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Welcome to WPI Computer Science!

• October 9, 2006

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CS at WPI

• Programs
• People
• Projects
• Breadth
• Careers

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Undergraduate Programs

• BS Computer Science
• BS Computers with Applications
• BS/MS program
• Minor in Computer Science
• NEW BS Interactive Media Game Dev
• PROPOSED BS Bioinformatics
• PLANNING BS Robotics Engineering

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Flexibility

• Wide choices in courses, projects
• Recommended background for courses
• 7-week terms
• Frequent course offerings
• 44 Offerings of 28 Courses in 2006?07
• Sample courses
• Webware, Computer Animation, Data Mining, Adv
  Databases, Human-Computer Interaction

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CS at WPI

• Programs
• People
• Projects
• Breadth
• Careers

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People
Faculty
Students

• Courses
• Projects
• Research
• Advising

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Faculty

• Innovative educators and scholars
• 3 WPI Teaching Technology Fellows
• 1 Fulbright Scholar
• 5 NSF Career / PYI Awards
• Chair conferences
• WWW, Info Viz, Multimedia, Software Eng
• All tenure-track faculty have PhDs
• CMU, Columbia, Duke, GWU, MIT, Northeastern, Ohio
  State, Penn, Purdue, Technion, UChicago,
  UCIrvine, UCLA, UConn, UIndiana, UMass, UMd, UMinn

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CS Student Organizations

• ACM
• Programming contests
• Laboratory
• Social events
• Women in Computer Science
• WICS lounge
• Tutoring sessions
• Also IEEE, Game Development Club,

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CS at WPI

• Programs
• People
• Projects
• Breadth
• Careers

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Projects

• Real solutions to real problems
• Many at industry, government labs
• Fun, challenging, professional
• Course projects

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CS MQP Project CentersWall St
LEHMAN BROTHERS
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CS MQP Project CentersSilicon Valley
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Other CS Project Sponsors
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CS at WPI

• Programs
• People
• Projects
• Breadth
• Careers

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Breadth

• Humanities areas
• Art
• Drama
• Music
• Languages
• History
• Literature
• Philosophy
• and more!

• Global projects
• Project centers
• Washington
• Denmark
• Ireland
• London
• Namibia
• Australia
• Boston / Worcester
• CS Project Centers
• and more!
• 1 term or summer

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CS Research Groups Labs

• Artificial Intelligence
• Artificial Intelligence in Design
• Congestion Control
• Data/Knowledge Bases
• Human Interaction in Virtual Environments
• Image Science
• Knowledge Discovery Data Mining

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CS Research Groups Labs

• Mobile Graphics
• Performance Evaluation of Distributed Systems
  (Networks)
• Research in FiltEring Recommendation
• Software Engineering
• Software Tools Technology
• Theory Umbrella Group
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems

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Undergraduate CS Program
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Sample CS First Term
CS 1101 or CS 1102 Introduction to Program Design or Accelerated Intro to Prog Design
MA 1021 Calculus I
EN 2231 American Literature The Raven, The Whale, And The Woodchuck
PE 1018 Co-Ed Volleyball
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Sample Weekly Schedule
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
800a
900a CS 1101 Lecture CS 1101 Lecture CS 1101 Lecture CS 1101 Lecture
1000a EN 2231 Lecture EN 2231 Lecture EN 2231 Lecture EN 2231 Lecture
1100a CS 1101 Lab
1200n
100p MA 1021 Lecture MA 1021 Lecture MA 1021 Lecture MA 1021 Lecture
200p PE 1018 PE 1018
300p MA 1021 Conference MA 1021 Lab
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CS Courses 1000 level

• Introduction to Program Design
• Accelerated Introduction to Program Design

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CS Courses 2000 level

• Introduction to Machine Organization and Assembly
  Language
• Discrete Mathematics
• Object-Oriented Design Concepts
• Object-oriented Design Concepts For Business
  Applications
• Algorithms
• Systems Programming Concepts

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CS Courses 3000 level

• Operating Systems
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Social Implications of Information Processing
• Foundations of Computer Science
• Database Systems I
• Software Engineering

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CS Courses 4000 level

• Numerical Methods for Linear and Nonlinear
  Systems
• Numerical Methods for Calculus and Differential
  Equations
• Analysis of Algorithms
• Theory of Computation
• Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
• Webware Computational Technology for Network
  Information Systems
• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

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CS Courses 4000 level

• Database Systems II
• Distributed Computer Systems
• Computer Networks Architecture and
  Implementation
• Computer Architecture
• Techniques of Programming Language Translation
• Computer Graphics
• Computer Animation

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CS at WPI

• Programs
• People
• Projects
• Breadth
• Careers

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Careers

• WPI CS Graduates are in demand
• Reasons
• Smart
• Motivated
• Experienced
• Professional
• They Get it

• The whole project-based education pays off in
  spades.
• Matt Young 00,
• Manager, Microsoft

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Outlook

• Highly favorable opportunities are expected for
  college graduates with at least a bachelors
  degree in computer engineering or computer
  science and with practical work experience.
• U.S. Dept. of Labor, 2004.
• The job market for computer science graduates
  moves so quickly that by the time anything is
  said about it, something new pops up . However,
  two words will remain standard for some time to
  comebooming and profitable.
• graduatingengineer.com, 2005.
• The California Employment Development Department
  estimates the need for computer software
  engineers will rise 43 percent between now and
  2012.
• San Jose Bus. J., 2005.

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What Employers Think
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XXX alumni. Also it is not a problem for WPI
Alumni.
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CS at WPI

• Programs
• People
• Projects
• Breadth
• Careers

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MQPs from the Students Perspective
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Questions?