Introduction to the Department
Editor-in-Chief: Xipeng Shen
The University of Rochester
Computer Science Department
Rochester, New York 14627
Departmental Guide 2
Welcome to the University of Rochester's Computer Science Department! If you are reading this document, it means that you will probably be living and breathing Rochester air for around 5 years. Peggy Frantz (retired now) originally intended that this document should help incoming students with basic facts about the CS Department and Rochester because moving to a new place is bad enough without also having to guess which of the several staff members to see about getting a computer account set up! Last year, it was decided that a graduate student might want to update this handbook and so I became the new Editor-in-Chief. I would like to thank all of the staff for helping me to update this information (some of which even the staff hadn't heard of in years) and to leave you with a small sentence of fourth-year wisdom: it gets better after the first year.
- Jessica Bayliss
P.S. The department guide was originally edited by Jessica Bayliss and
was subsequently revised by Rahul Bhotika, Myrosia Dzikovska and Xipeng
Shen.