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The Harvey Mudd College Department of Computer Science graduated its first class in 1992. Since then, the department has grown to its current size of nine tenure-track faculty members and three staff members.

In addition to the Computer Science Major, the department supports the Joint Major in Mathematics and Computer Science and the Mathematical and Computational Biology Major. There are approximately 50 students in the class of 2012 pursuing one of these majors.

The department works closely with our sister departments at Pomona and Claremont McKenna Colleges and our courses draw students from all five Claremont Colleges and the Claremont Graduate University.

The department seeks to provide students with a strong foundational background blending experimentation, theory, and design. Our graduates are equally well-prepared for work in industry and graduate school. The capstone Clinic Program provides students with a year-long software design project and our active Research Program involves approximately 50 students in research, funded by grants and gifts from the National Science Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Rose-Hills and Baker Foundations.

NSF Grant Supports Computer Science Research » Learn More NSF Grant Supports Computer Science Research

The National Science Foundation has awarded Harvey Mudd College $367,461 to support undergraduate computer science research in computer systems, artificial intelligence, and computational biology through 2013.
Impro-Vising » Learn More Impro-Vising

Students from the 2006 Summer Research on the Impro-Visor project Martin Hunt (HMC '08), David Morrison (HMC '08), Stephen Jones (HMC '07) and Steve Gomez (Dartmouth) get back to the basics.

Department News

  • Professor Colleen Lewis has had a paper accepted to the SIGCSE Bulletin: Shah, N., Lewis, C. M., Caires, R., Khan, N., Qureshi, A., Ehsanipour, D., & Gupta, N. (2013) Building Equitable Computer Science Classrooms: Elements of a Teaching Approach. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin. 44(1). In press.
  • Harvey Mudd sends 55 students to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference in Baltimore, Maryland!
  • Professor Colleen Lewis recently received the “Chair’s Award” at ICER 2012 in Auckland, New Zealand. Read more here. Congratulations Colleen!
  • Professors Chris Stone and Melissa O’Neill have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to support their working on observationally cooperative multithreading.
  • Professors Zach Dodds and Mike Erlinger have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to develop middle school computing curricula and train middle school teachers to teach these curricula.
  • Professor Ran Libeskind-Hadas has been selected to receive the Distinguished Alumni Educator Award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Recent and Upcoming Events

DateLocationDescription
Jan 21 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Jan 22 First Day of Class