Computer science is the study of the theoretical and practical aspects of computer technology and computer usage. The department offers courses on a wide range of topics, many of which include a mathematical component. UC Santa Cruz offers both the bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degrees, as well as the master of science and doctor of philosophy degrees, in computer science. Besides offering instructional courses, the Computer Science Department engages in a substantial research program in which both advanced undergraduates and graduate students participate.

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• UCSC engineer provides support for World Refugee Day live webcast on June 20

  To mark World Refugee Day on Saturday, June 20, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) will launch its first-ever live webcast from refugee camps in remote locations around the world. Faculty and students at the Baskin School of Engineering helped build the web site (RefugeeDayLive.org) and set up a command center at UCSC's Silicon Valley Center for the live interactive webcast.   More

• UCSC project ranks as one of five "cool cloud computing research projects"

  Debuting this week at the HotCloud conference in San Diego:  "Maximizing Efficiency by Trading Storage for Computation."  A team of researchers from Baskin Engineering's SSRC team, working with startup Pergamum Systems and NetApp, performed the research that is described in this post on Network World's blog.  More

• 2008-2009 undergraduate student awards and scholarships

  The Jack Baskin School of Engineering announced recipients and scholars for the undergraduate awards and scholarships, recognizing their outstanding commitment to engineering, academic achievements, and leadership.  More

• Baskin Engineering in the news: Santa Cruz Interactive MultiTouch Platform wins senior design competition

  From the article published Sunday, June 14, 2009, in SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL and SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS  More

• Baskin Engineering in the news: Associate professor Dimitris Achlioptas in SCIENCE and NEW SCIENTIST

  Explosive percolation in random networks, a paper reporting the research of a team led by Baskin Engineering associate professor of computer science Dimitris Achlioptas, was published in SCIENCE and covered in NEW SCIENTIST.  More

• Baskin Engineering in the news: Data storage paper cited in LINUX MAGAZINE

  A paper published last year in conjunction with the 2008 USENIX Technical Conference - "Measurement and Analysis of Large-Scale Network File System Workloads" - was cited in an article in LINUX MAGAZINE, "How Old is that Data on the Hard Drive?"  Baskin Engineering Computer Science professor Ethan Miller was part of the team that conducted the research.  More

• Philippe Kahn, serial entrepreneur, talks startups

  The UCSC Business Plan Competition finals were held May 29, 2009.  Before announcing the winners - Sustainabites, Sky Is the Limit, Lingua Earth and Pherica - Philippe Kahn spoke to the competitors and their guests about the true nature of success.  More

• First-ever UC Santa Cruz Business Plan Competition generates winning ideas

  From a high-tech pill bottle cap that helps patients monitor their intake of prescription drugs to a proposal for locally produced organic baby food, the ideas presented during the first-ever UC Santa Cruz Business Plan Competition prove UCSC students and recent graduates mean business.  More