Program description
After more than a quarter century of offering a CS Concentration, St. Olaf expanded to a Major in 2002. The CS program's mission calls for education grounded in the fundamental principles of Computer Science, connections with the liberal arts and with the outside world, and learning through hands-on experience with exemplary systems. The courses in the CS curriculum reflect five objectives derived from that mission. The program serves students whose interest in CS ranges from casual to major, and from computing-focused to interdisciplinary.
Contents
- Why study Computer Science?
- The importance of CS in the contemporary world.
- Why CS at St. Olaf?
- A quick, linked overview of the program.
- More about Computer Science
- Additional materials about the discipline.
Coming events:
Len Wyatt, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft will visit on Monday, Dec 3.
Talk: Big Data: Helping Users to See the Light, 4:45pm in RNS 203 on 12/3
Informal Q&A about working at Microsoft, 3:15-4:30 in RNS 203 on 12/3
News
Maggie Wanek '15 received an NSF-funded scholarship to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Baltimore in October.
The CSinParallel project was awarded a $600,000 NSF grant to produce new teaching modules for adding parallel and distributed computing to undergraduate CS courses. The project () is led by Prof. Dick Brown at St. Olaf and two other professors at Macalester and Calvin Colleges.
Eleven CS students participated in summer research during 2012, including eight full-time researchers at St. Olaf.
"Thing3," a new 64-core computer was added to the CS program's parallel and distributed computing resources in June, designed and constructed by Jay Petersen '13, Michael Stone '13, and Maggie Wanek '15.
