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Welcome to the WFU Computer Science Department

The Department of Computer Science at Wake Forest University is home to computer science BS, BA, MS, and minor programs, all of which prepare students for excellent employment opportunities or for entering our own or other prestigious graduate programs. The undergraduate degree options provide students the flexibility to also study in other departments, resulting in an excellent computational background coupled with expertise in a content area. Computer science classes in the major are small and taught by a highly-qualified faculty who enjoy teaching in and out of the classroom. We pride ourselves on the opportunities provided to our students for meaningful participation in leading-edge research on a broad range of contemporary topics. Projects in network and computer security, digital media, advanced imaging, machine learning, and computational biology are among those that benefit from student involvement. Opportunities for internships and summer research are numerous. Other student projects have resulted in developing and deploying mobile apps for a wide range of including assistive and rehabilitative therapy, real-time vehicle tracking, and geotrekking. Employment opportunities in a wide variety of fields are available and placement rates for our graduates in the workforce or graduate programs are consistently outstanding.

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  • Learn more about our research in artificial intelligence, databases, scientific computing and visualization, and other areas
  • Wake Forest computer science professor Jennifer Burg works with graduate student Dan Xue in the digital media lab
  • Dr. Cho informs students about the applications of CUDA programming
  • Profs. Cho and Pauca organized a workshop for teachers at Hanes Middle School.
  • Wake Forest computer science major Emily Hudspeth ('14) presents a memory game to Hanes Magnet teachers that demonstrates how computers store and check their data.
  • With his students, Dr. Pauca has created “VerbalVictor,” a smartphone app.
  • Computer science and physics professor Samuel Cho (center) works with his students, graduate student Tyson Lipscomb (left) and senior Anqi Zou ('12).

News Archive

Event: Bryan Prosser Senior Honors Presentation
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 11:00

Discrete Event Simulator for Mobile Agents with Queuing

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. Manchester 017

Mobile agents can provide a strong approach for managing, monitoring and securing electrical distribution networks.  However engineering such a system can be a daunting task when no similar system has ever been implemented.  The creation and use of simulators that try to model aspects of the final product can help answer questions regarding implementation and may give a glimpse at expected results when the system is tested...

Event: Gavin D. Borg Senior Honors Presentation
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 13:00

Process Scheduling: A Simulation Application

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 1:00 p.m.Manchester 017

Abstract: In modern operating systems, we can often forget the lower-level complexity that is involved in running multiple programs on a computer. A particularly important procedure that operating systems perform is to execute many different instances of programs and operating system functions, called processes, using a limited number of processors and other resources currently available to the device. SimProcessScheduler is an iPad application that visually...

Event: Andrew J. Proctor Graduate Thesis Defense
Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 15:00

Hybrid Neighbor/Cell List Algorithm for GPU-Optimized Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations

THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2013, 3:00 P.M., MANCHESTER 244

Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations provide a molecular-resolution picture of the folding and assembly processes, however the size and timescales of MD simulations are limited by the computational demands of the underlying numerical integrators and algorithms. Recently, GPUs, specialized devices that were originally designed for rendering images, have been repurposed for high performance computing with...

Department of Computer Science
Wake Forest University, 233 Manchester Hall, Box 7311
Winston-Salem, NC 27109
Phone:336.758.4982 Fax:336.758.4106
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