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.
Department News
- Off-campus summer research opportunities can be found at the URO Zone website.
- Professor Bob Keller will be giving a talk entitled “Intelligent Music Software” to the local chapter of the IEEE Computer Society. The talk is on Thursday, February 23 at CGU. A light dinner will be provided and students are encouraged to attend. Please download the flyer for more details and RSVP information.
- Professor Geoff Kuenning and Jack Ma (HMC ‘14) are co-authors on a paper that will be presented at the 10th Usenix Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST) in mid-February. The paper is with co-authors V. Tarasov, S. Kumar, D. Hildebrand, A. Povzner, and E. Zadok and is titled “Extracting Flexible, Replayable Models from Large Block Traces.”
- Professor Robert Keller gave two presentations on Impro-Visor at the Technology Institute for Music Educators National Conference in Louisville, KY on January 5, 2012.
- President Klawe and HMC CS were featured in recent articles in Business Week and Forbes.
- The current Spring 2012 CS schedule in “week at a glance” format is posted here.
Recent and Upcoming Events
| Date | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 9 | Galileo Pryne | Colloquium Whom to trust in the Real-Time Web? |
| Feb 14 | Beckman Auditorium | Colloquium Helping Unleash Parallel Speedup from Sequential Programs |
| Feb 15 | Galileo Edwards | Colloquium Premature Optimization is the Root of All SQL |
| Feb 16 | Galileo Pryne | Colloquium Improving and Evaluating Computer Science Education |
| Feb 21 | Galileo Pryne | Colloquium Computational Tools for Building Machines That Effectively Interact with People |
| Feb 23 | CGU ACB 214 | Intelligent Music Software |