Computer and Information Science

Students who have completed all of the mathematics classes available at their high schools may choose to enroll in computer science classes at the U of O through the Duck Link program. Descriptions of computer science classes appropriate for Duck Link students offered in Fall 2010 are given below. Department permission is required for Duck Link students to enroll in computer science classes.... Read more

Monday, June 14, 2010 marked the Computer & Information Science Department's commencement ceremony. The ceremony featured a message to the graduating class from alumnus David Novick, AT&T Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso. The ceremony also included recognitions, awards and scholarships,... Read more

CIS Summer Session Classes Offer Flexibility for UO Students

For students working on University degree requirements, CIS Summer Session offers classes both practical and fun: Read more

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Associate Professor Anthony Hornof $500,000 to advance science through a project entitled "A Computational Theory of Perceptual Integration in Multimodal Multitasking". The project investigates how people integrate auditory and visual information to perform multiple tasks in parallel, such as when emergency personnel interleave navigation and... Read more

Professors Andrzej Proskurowski, Art Farley, Stuart Faulk, and Virginia Lo lead a delegation of 20 computer science students from the Pacific Northwest to Beijing for the first Pacific Rim Summer School in Global Distributed Software Development, July 2010. This intensive two-week program brought together an equal number of students from the Pacific Northwest and from Asia to learn about... Read more

A UO Distinguished Lecture Series Presentation
In honor of the 40th Anniversary of the Department of Computer 
and Information Science

Computer Science: Past, Present, & Future

Dr. Ed Lazowska
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington Read more

Dr. Steve Seitz's presented "Reconstructing the World from Photos on the Internet" on Thursday, April 8, 2010 on the University of Oregon campus.

Dr. Seitz's research combines topics from computer vision, computer graphics, and photography. His work on Photo Tourism (joint with Noah Snavely and Rick Szeliski) formed the basis of Microsoft's Photosynth technology, which analyzes... Read more

The Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Oregon celebrated its 40th Anniversary this year. Special events in honor of our birthday over the weekend of May 1, 2010 were held, including: a Distinguished Lecture about the future of computing by Dr. Ed Lazowska, who is Bill and Melinda Gates Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington, on Friday... Read more

Professor Reza Rejaie has received a grant for $350,000 from the National Science Foundation to characterize the structure of Online Social Networks (OSNs) and investigate the underlying social causes that determines the structure. Funded by the NSF Division of Information & Intelligent Systems, the project is a joint effort of the UO CIS and Sociology Departments, the Mathematics... Read more

Teams from the Computer & Information Sciences Department have been working with Geography Asst. Professor Amy Lobben to develop tools to help the visually impaired navigate their way through maps and the real world.

For more, see Technology for the Blind at the ... Read more