The Harvey Mudd College Department of Computer Science graduated its first class in 1992. Since then, the department has grown to its current size of nine tenure-track faculty members and three staff members.
In addition to the Computer Science Major, the department supports the Joint Major in Mathematics and Computer Science and the Mathematical and Computational Biology Major. There are approximately 50 students in the class of 2012 pursuing one of these majors.
The department works closely with our sister departments at Pomona and Claremont McKenna Colleges and our courses draw students from all five Claremont Colleges and the Claremont Graduate University.
The department seeks to provide students with a strong foundational background blending experimentation, theory, and design. Our graduates are equally well-prepared for work in industry and graduate school. The capstone Clinic Program provides students with a year-long software design project and our active Research Program involves approximately 50 students in research, funded by grants and gifts from the National Science Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Rose-Hills and Baker Foundations.
Department News
A table showing the times of Fall 2012 CS courses is available here.
Descriptions of the Fall 2012 CS Electives can be found here.
An article on President Maria Klawe and the CS at HMC appeared in the New York Times on April 3.
Prof. Ran Libeskind-Hadas will be a panelist at the Bayer STEM Diversity and U.S. Higher Education Forum at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on April 18.
Prof. Robert Keller will present a paper “A Creative Improvisational Companion Based on Idiomatic Harmonic Bricks,” co-authored with August Toman-Yih (HMC ‘13), Xanda Schofield (HMC ‘13), and Zachary Merritt, at the 3rd International Conference on Computational Creativity in Dublin, Ireland, May 30-June 1, 2012.
Professor Geoff Kuenning and HMC student Will Buik (HMC ‘12) are co-authors on a paper that will be presented at Usenix. Vasily Tarasov, Amar Mudrankit, Will Buik, Philip Shilane, Geoff Kuenning, and Erez Zadok, “Generating Realistic Datasets for Deduplication Analysis,” Usenix Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, June 13-15, 2012.
Recent and Upcoming Events
| Date | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|
| May 11 | Final examinations end | |
| May 13 | Commencement |