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.

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 fifth IT Recruiting Fair in conjunction with the EMU Career Services Center and Information Assurance Program on Friday, November 20, 2009.

Recent Scholarly Activity:
Jan. 29, 2010
Veysel Ozer, a recent EMU CS Master's graduate, is presenting one of his research papers entitled "The evil karmetasploit upgrade" at Nullcon in India. More on Veysel and other Nullcon speakers...

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 (March 12)

The sixth IT Career Fair will be held on Friday, March 12, 2010, in the Student Center, Room 300.

Here is the most recent list of attending firms:

Click here for the event flyer.

IT Recruiting Fair
The CS Department successfully organized its fifth IT Recruiting Fair in conjunction with the EMU Career Services Center and Information Assurance Program on Friday, November 20, 2009. The following is a list of the attending firms/organizations:

Auto Owners Insurance
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Brooksource
Fry, Inc.
The Linux Box
Menlo Innovations
ParishSoft
PRIME Research
ProStep
Ramsoft Systems Inc
Sircon
Steelcase
TechStaff
University of Michigan - Library IT

Information Technology and Actuarial Career Opportunity Day (Feb, 6)
Auto-Owners Insurance Company invites all Juniors, Seniors, and Recent Grads majoring in Computer Science... The event is on Friday, February 6, 2009 in Lansing, MI 48917.
Click here for the event flyer.

Career Events for COSC Students
Computer Science Students!

Please check our updated Career Events page for more information about IT events organized by different companies such as 1 st Annual Workforce Software Career Fair and Auto Owners Insurance Co. IT Day .

Computer Science Student Meeting (Nov., 5)
Computer Science students!

We're preparing to launch the Experimental Interactive Media Lab. We need students to join and help guide the committees on the lab's three overlapping areas of interest:

- simulation+visualization

- human-computer interaction

Even if you missed the first meeting, you are welcome to join these efforts. If you can't come to the Nov. 5 meeting, but are interested in these areas, please email Dr. Bill McMillan

Meeting will be in 519 Pray Harrold, on Wednesday, November 5, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Serve for glory, learning opportunities, pizza, and the future of your department!

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.