The department hosts events like the 48-hour Hackathon, where major Dawit Habtemariam '15 created an air quality app.
Computer Science is the representation and manipulation of information; it is the study of the theory, analysis, design, and implementation of the data structures that represent information and the algorithms that transform them. Computer science has roots in mathematics, physics, and engineering; in modern practice, it is interdisciplinary, with applications in virtually every academic field and professional enterprise.
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The computer science and mathematics double major is at the University of Maryland this summer, working on finding kidney donor-recipient matches using neural networks, as part of the National Science Foundation’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates program.