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The Computer Science Department at Wellesley College has an established curriculum, a dedicated faculty with a range of research interests, and advanced classroom, laboratory, and computing facilities. The physical proximity of Wellesley College to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other Boston area universities offers many opportunities for young computer scientists to attend lectures and seminars, both on and off campus. Students also enjoy a wide variety of research and work opportunities, both during their Wellesley tenure, and upon completion of the degree. For more information, read on, or click on one of the following categories:
Curriculum
Faculty and Research
Facilities
Work Experience and Internships
Post-Graduate Opportunities
Approximately fifteen majors graduate each year, and a significant number of students also minor in Computer Science. Click here for information about degree requirements for Computer Science.
The Computer Science Departments faculty have a variety of research interests that include algorithmic design, algorithm visualization, computer aided instruction, genetic algorithms, human and computer vision, computational linguistics, parallel computing and operations research.
Faculty memebers have received a number of research grants from the National Science Foundation and other organizations, allowing them to collaborate with scholars at Johns Hopkins University, the Massachusetts Institue of Technology, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Research projects often involve students, who may earn academic credit through independent study or honors in the major.
Wellesley College has a networked campus, and academic computers are available on the campus-wide network. These include a VAX cluster, SUN workstations, DEC workstations, IBM RISC workstations, and a Maspar parallel computer. In addition, Macs and IBM PCs are distributed around campus in classrooms, microcomputer labs, faculty offices, research labs, libraries, and dormitories.
The offices, classrooms, and laboratories used by the Computer Science Department are located in the Science Center (click here for a campus map).
The Computer Science classroom, located in E101, is dedicated to computer science instruction. The classroom includes 16 networked MacIntosh computers and a UNIX workstation, along with a state-of-the-art projection system, for interactive teaching and demonstration purposes.
E125 is the location of the Digital Laboratory, used exclusively for computer science laboratory courses, including Computer Architecture.
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