Colgate University
Computer Science

Our Study

Computer science is the study of algorithmic processes and the machines that carry out these processes. It is a mix of theory, application, design, and experiment. Methods and ideas drawn from computer science are increasingly important in other scientific disciplines, as well as the humanities and social sciences. Most of all, we think computer science is fun. Our energetic faculty have active research programs and typically involve student researchers during the summer and the academic year. Check out our department highlights to learn more about computer science and our department.

We have a growing pool of highly successful graduates. Our students continue on to successful careers in a wide variety of fields including the computing and financial industries. A number of our students continue on to graduate work as well. Computing research and technology can change the world for the better, and there are many great reasons for choosing computer science. Contrary to fears generated by outsourcing, computer science-related jobs are still some of the best, fastest-growing, and highly-paid positions available to freshly-minted graduates.

Contact Information

Computer Science Department
Colgate University
McGregory Hall, 3rd Floor
13 Oak Drive
Hamilton, NY 13346
(tel) 315.228.7719
Charlotte Jablonski, Administrative Assistant
cjablonski@colgate.edu

Highlights & Photos

<Colgate Coders> hosts software development panel

The club hosted two department alumni, Karen Kelley '13 and Anindya Guha '15, to talk about their experiences in the tech industry. Both Karen and Anindya current work at Amazon and discussed specifically their work as software development engineers at ...

Colgate students attend Grace Hopper 2018

Eleven Colgate students and Professor Hay attended Grace Hopper Celebration (https://ghc.anitab.org/), the world's largest gathering of women technologists.

Faculty member Sommers receives NSF grant

Prof. Joel Sommers was recently awarded a three-year grant from the NSF for a project that seeks to develop methods for automatically capturing and analyzing metadata collected during Internet performance experiments.

The extraordinary growth of Internet connectivity and bandwidth has ...

Upcoming Events

• 27

  Nov

  2018

  Dept Tea: Is Email privacy actually possible?

  Location: McGregory 319

  From 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.

  Speaker: Yasoob Khalid '21

  Abstract: How does email work? What exactly is email privacy? Is Google actually reading your emails and can you NSA proof your emails? (we will try to answer this during the talk). I recently started exploring ...

• 11

  Dec

  2018

  Dept Tea: End-of-semester eats

  Location: McGregory 319

  From 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.

  We invite CS majors and anyone enrolled in a CS course to join us for lunch.

Recent Events

• 13

  Nov

  2018

  Dept Tea: Of shadow bans and sock puppets: Deliberation and moderation of identity work on Reddit

  Location: McGregory 319

  From 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.

  Speaker: Bryan Dosono, PhD Candidate, Syracuse University

  Abstract:
  This talk covers two empirical studies that disentangle how Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) construct and express their identity in online communities within Reddit. The first study examines how users engage ...

• 6

  Nov

  2018

  Dept Tea: Discussion on ethics

  Location: McGregory 319

  From 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.

  We'll engage in small group discussions about ethics in the context of technology.