Computer Science DepartmentSmith College

Northampton, MA 01063www.cs.smith.edu

Computer Science is one ofSmith College's youngestdepartments.About fifteen students graduateeach year with a major incomputer science and many moreminor in computerscience or take severalcourses of interest.

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August 2007

Studies in Computer Science

The major is a set of at least 11semester courses (44 gradedcredits) distributed over Theory,Programming, and Systems. Allstudents take a seminar on thestate-of-the-art of a topic incomputer science such ascomputer architecture, machinevision, parallel processing,robotics, and digital sound andmusic processing.

Students may minor in computerscience as well. A self-designedminor is an option, as are minorsin digital art, digital music, theory,programming, systems, computerscience and language, andmathematical foundations ofcomputer science.

Faculty

Michael O. Albertson Mathematics

Judith CardellComputer Science/Engineering

Judy Franklin Computer Science

Nicholas Howe Computer Science

Eitan Mendelowitz Computer Science

Joseph O'Rourke Computer Science

Ileana Streinu Computer Science

Dominique F. Thiébaut Computer Science

Clark Science Center

The latter three pieces ofequipment are housed in thescience center's Center for Designand Fabrication, acollege-wide resource usedby artists and scientists alike.

The Clark Science Centersupports faculty and studentresearch and classwork with acluster of multi-processor Intelservers.

Key-served applications such asAdobe Photoshop and Illustrator;Macromedia Dreamweaver;Matlab and Mathematica; Final CutPro; Flash and Sketch up areavailable, as are applications suchas QT and python for advancedprogramming; Keykit, Csound, andPure Data for computer sound andmusic; and OpenGL, GameMaker,and POV-Ray, for computergraphics.

Learn more at www.cs.smith.edu.

Facilities

Computer Science contains andshares assorted computer-equipped classrooms in thescience center. Machines includedual boot linux/windowsworkstations as well as triple bootMacintosh computers.

Students and faculty memberspursue interdisciplinary researchand class work using digitalcircuits and microprocessor kits;Lego robot arms; robot dogs, andmobile platforms; sensor modules,synthesizers, keyboards, for digitalsound and music; a digital videocamera and a Gypsy 3.0 wirelessmodel motion capture system; and

Students

Computer Science students arevery active in the department. Twoliaisons attend department facultymeetings, and run monthly socialgatherings such as movie nightand game night.

Many students work as teachingassistants, running help sessions,grading, and aiding studentsduring teaching labs.

Many students also do research asspecial studies, as research grantassistants, or as honors theses.

a 3-D printer, a laser scanner anda laser cutter for rapid prototyping.