Welcome to the website of the Department of Computer Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland! Memorial is one of Canada's leading comprehensive universities and our Department has a long and proud history. We are ambitious, having grown over the last decade, both in our faculty complement and our graduate student numbers. Since 2003, 50% of our new faculty hires are women, and our Masters and PhD programs have quadrupled over the same period. For the next decade we aim at becoming one of the most innovative and vibrant Computer Science departments in Canada.
Virtually every discipline - practical, theoretical or creative - is experiences the influence of computers today. The ever-increasing dependence on computer technology in our daily lives presents rich opportunities for those interested in the design of new applications and systems. Computer Science - the science of computing - provides a solid and rigorous foundation on which such systems and applications can be built. At the same time, computer science has a large potential impact on interdisciplinary collaboration.
Whether your passion is to help fight global warming, uncover the secrets of the human genome, create intelligent robots, bring history alive through mobile apps, prevent terrorism, understand human social phenomena, play the stock market, create digital art, improve health care, or invent the technologies of the future, computing is central to these and most modern endeavors.
Computing professionals often collaborate in teams but may also work individually; they may be entrepreneurs, telecommuters, consultants, academics, work in a small business, work in a big business, work in a research laboratory, work in government, or work internationally.
The Department of Computer Science at Memorial University has a wide range of program offerings, all of which are intended to be challenging and dedicated to the evolution of Computer Science.
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