1. Introduction

The Yale Department of Computer Science was founded in 1969 as a small graduate program. It now includes 14 regular faculty members, 10 lecturers and affiliated and visiting faculty members, 10 research scientists and postgraduate fellows, more than 30 graduate students, and more than 100 undergraduate majors. The Department offers more than 30 undergraduate and graduate courses annually as well as a number of reading and project courses and seminars. The Ph.D. degree program in Computer Science stresses original research, by the student as an individual and as a member of the community of scholars. To this end, the course requirements are minimal and students normally begin research by the fall term of their second year of graduate study. The terminal M.S. degree program in Computer Science brings students to the cutting edge of the field and provides them with a solid foundation on which to build their future careers.

Department Chair

Director of Graduate Studies Drew McDermott

PROFESSORS Stanley Eisenstat Michael Fischer David Gelernter Paul Hudak Ravindran Kannan Laszlo Lovasz Drew McDermott Vladimir Rokhlin Martin Schultz Steven Zucker ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR James Aspnes

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS Arvind Krishnamurthy Bradley Kuszmaul Zhong Shao LECTURERS Robert Dunne Rene Peralta AFFILIATED FACULTY Peter Belhumeur Ronald Coifman Dana Henry Edward Tufte

VISITING FACULTY Ming-Yang Kao RESEARCH FACULTY Dana Angluin Nicholas Carriero Michael Hines John Peterson Diana Resasco Eric Stratman POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATES Israel Cohen Valery Trifonov Norman Yarvin

Drew McDermott
2000-01-18