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Computer Science at the University of Rochester
PO Box 270226, Rochester, NY 14627 vox: 585.275.5671 fax: 585.273.4556

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The Department of Computer Science at the University of Rochester is well known for its research production and collegial atmosphere. Degrees offered include an elite undergraduate major and an intense program leading to the doctor of philosophy. Particular emphasis is placed on computer vision and robotics, natural language understanding and knowledge representation, systems and architecture, and theory of computation.

For more information about the department, read our Measures of Excellence.


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URCS news

In Memoriam:
Henry E. Kyburg Jr.
1928–2007

UR Computer Sciences scores high in Measures of Excellence
Multicast 2007, our annual newsletter, has been released. Visit our more news website to see previous editions.
Undergraduates win for 2nd consecutive year at the Computer Science Games Competition in Montreal, Quebec (See more news)
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has selected URCS faculty member Lane A. Hemaspaandra for a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award. Photo of Lane and the Humboldt president
Michael L. Scott was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Henry Kautz was elected as an AAAS (American Association for Advancement of Science) Fellow.
Book on Hierarchies in Complexity Theory by Mitsu Ogihara Mitsu Ogihara's textbook, "Hierarchies in Complexity Theory" was recently released in Japanese.
Michael Scott and John Mellor-Crummey win 2006 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing (See More News)
IBM Canada selected Chengliang Zhang to receive the Centre for Advanced Studies graduate fellowship for 2006.
The lock-free concurrent exchangers and synchronous queues first published by Bill Scherer, Doug Lea, & Michael Scott in 2005/2006 have been adopted to replace existing algorithms in the java.util.concurrent package in the next release of Java 6.
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