Both master of science and doctor of philosophy degrees are available. The program is flexible, designed for both the recent graduate and the working professional. The same teaching staff, courses and high standards apply to both versions of the graduate program. Faculty M. Hofri, Professor and Dept. The current departmental activities include among other areas artificial intelligence, computer vision, computer graphics, database and information systems, distributed systems, graph theory and computational complexity, network performance evaluation, software engineering, visualization, and web-based systems.
Research groups meet weekly and focus on topics related to the above areas.
Research and development projects and theses are available in these areas. Students are also encouraged to undertake projects and theses in cooperation with neighboring computer manufacturers or commercial organizations. These include artificial intelligence lab, performance evaluation and distributed systems lab, the database base systems lab, the software engineering lab, the advanced information systems lab, and the visualization lab as well as several Undergraduate Project labs, and a Graduate Project lab. Off-Campus Research Opportunities Computer science graduate students have opportunities for research and development in cooperation with several neighboring organizations, both for master's thesis as well as Ph.D. dissertation. These and other opportunities provide real-world problems and experiences consistent with WPI's policy of extending learning beyond the classroom.