About the Department of Computing
The Department of Computing is committed to excellence in terms of its
teaching, research, and industry and external collaborations. Being located
at the northern end of Sydney's 'silicon valley', the Department enjoys
the advantages of a large green field campus in the hub of Sydney's IT
industry.
The Department offers a comprehensive teaching program that covers the
spectrum from short courses for school teachers, through to undergraduate,
honours, postgraduate and PhD study. Specific courses include traditional
computer science, programming languages, software engineering, information
systems, e-business technologies through to
artificial intelligence, web technologies and language technology. In 2005
the Department expanded its offerings to introduce a Bachelor of Informations
Systems degree.
Underpinning this teaching is an active and thriving research program covering a wide range of interests including language technology, cryptography, security, programming languages and advanced systems engineering, knowledge systems and category theory.
The Head of Department is Associate Professor Bernard Mans.
The Department is one of four Departments located in the Division of Information and Communication Sciences; the other three Departments are Electronic Engineering, Mathematics and Physics.