Welcome to the Department of Computer Science

Northwestern University recognizes that computers and computational thinking are changing everything: the way we work, play, think, shop, and plan. At the Department of Computer Science, we aim to lead that change.

As the University continues to deepen its commitment to computer science through radically expanding the number of faculty in this department and developing state-of-the-art facilities, we are pursuing new ideas in all areas of computer science. In particular, our Computer Science + X (CS+X) initiative is uncovering and fostering numerous relationships between computer science and other fields, such as literature, art, medicine, and economics. These interdisciplinary computer science collaborations reach across the entire fabric the University, continually sparking entirely new fields of study. It’s a combination that offers our researchers and students an educational experience like no other.

Research

Faculty and students are developing new ideas to achieve results in all aspects of computer science: systems; theory; artificial intelligence and machine learning; human-computer interaction; graphics; robotics; and various CS + X areas of research.

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