Following the first 39 hours of courses in information science, computer science and statistics, students then develop, along with a faculty member in an appropriate department, an agreement of upper division coursework designed to provide the student with a firm grounding in a particular application within the framework of Information Science. The program is administered by a multidisciplinary committee whose membership includes faculty from Psychology, Communications Studies, Information Science, Computer Science, Business Administration, and the Library. The Computer Science Department has ten faculty . Three hold Ph.D.s and four are enrolled in Ph.D. programs. Two hold Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Teaching, the highest teaching award issued by the State of New York.
Several members have international teaching experience.
The areas of expertise include object oriented design, parallel processing, and artificial intelligence. Our graduates have gained admissions to quality graduate schools, recently including programs at U. Mass, Amherst, Rutgers, RIT, RPI, Clemson, and the University of Pittsburgh. Those seeking employment have also met with success - the placement rate and starting salaries of our graduates are among the highest of all SUNY programs. The Computer Science Association, our student chapter of the ACM, has been active, most dramatically in hosting the regional ACM programming contest in the fall and a high school programming contest in the spring. Some may recognize the name, as she and her husband Vadim were prominent in coordinating the electronic communications with the West during the attempted coup of 1991.