EMU: Department of Computer Science

Welcome! to the department of Computer Science at Eastern Michigan University. Our department is located in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and strives to provide students a broad education centered on computer science and delivered in the context of the liberal arts.

All facilities of our department are housed in Pray- Harrold with offices and labs on the fifth floor and classrooms on the third floor.

Interim Department Head
William W. McMillan

Computer Science Office
511 Pray-Harrold
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI, USA 48197
Phone: 734-487-1063
Fax: 734-487-6824
Email: cs@emich.edu

Office Hours
Monday - Friday
8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Department Flyer

News

The CS Department successfully organized its second IT recruitment event in conjunction and assistance of the Career Services Center, on Friday, April 11.

Recent Scholarly Activity: Presentations at University of Michigan Psychiatry Silverman Conference, and INDY07 Bioinformatics Conference.

EMU Computer Science faculty have had papers accepted to 2007 meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, 2007 meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Sciencethe 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining, the ACM Transactions on the Web, the ACM Electronic Commerce 2006 conference, the IMECS 2006 conference, the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 2006 conference, the Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning 2007 conference, and the ACM SIGCSE 2007 conference. A recent book is Wp-Calculus: An Introduction to Formal Methods (Wiley, 2006).

New Hardware Lab: To support classes, research, and experimentation, the department has established a 20-station hardware lab in Pray-Harrold 514 (the open lab is now in 513). The lab will be used in classes in microprocessors, robotics, real-time, and some sections of computer organization 1 and 2. There are new lab benches, heavy-duty cabinets, microprocessor trainers, multi-meters, etc.

Dr. Paul Ceruzzi of the Smithsonian recently presented a talk at the EMU Computer Science speaker series, "From the ARPANET to the Internet: how a military project became a world-wide cultural phenomenon, 1970-1995". About 100 people attended.

Events

IT Career Fair

IT Career Fair will be held on Friday, November 21, 2008 in the Student Center Grand Ballroom B 200.

The event will have the following schedule:

1 pm – 3 pm: IT Recruiting Fair

3 pm: Wrap-up

Click here for the event flyer.

Computational Thinking

Dr. Jeannette Wing of the National Science Foundation spoke about Computational Thinking on April 2 in Ballroom B of the Student Center.

Click here for more.

Recent Presentation on Employment Skills in CS
Click here to see PowerPoint.