Computer Science is the representation and manipulation of information; it is the study of the theory, analysis, design, and implementation of the data structures that represent information, and the algorithms that transform them [see also ACM definition of computing].

There remain many open questions in the field, such as:

• Are there algorithms, yet undiscovered, to solve presently intractable but important problems?
• Are there alternative, more promising, models of computation than implied by the Church-Turing Thesis?
• How do we handle the consequences of computing and IT (e.g., bird-flu genome online)?

Computer Science is interdisciplinary, with roots in mathematics, physics and engineering, and with applications in virtually every academic discipline and professional enterprise (e.g., scientific computing, physics and astronomy, economics, cognitive science, neuroscience, bioinformatics, linguistics, and the humanities).

Computer Science at Reunion Weekend 2009 May 30, 2009: from left to right: Pf. Dougherty, Brian Bejile `04, Tim Ambrogi `04, Jason Coleman `04, and Pf. Wonnacott

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. -- Issac Asimov

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. -- Richard Wesley Hamming

Computer science differs from the known sciences so deeply that it has to be viewed as a new species among the sciences. -- Juris Hartmanis

Eventually hardware fails; eventually software works. Michael Hartung

Jan 2010: Pf. Lindell with host Benoit Razet in India.

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Dec 16, 2008: Jeff Butera '11 (left) demonstrates his microprocessor design to Pf. Wonnacott

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