Download Students - Smith College Department of Computer Science

Computer Science Major:
The major is a set of 11 semester
courses distributed over
Programming, Theory, and Systems.
All students take a seminar on the
state-of-the-art of a topic in
computer science such as computer
architecture, machine vision, parallel
processing, computational biology,
robotics, and digital sound and
music.
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CS major,
Art Studio minor
Computer Science collaborates
with the Art, Theatre, Dance,
and Music Departments, in a
new program and minor in Arts
and Technology
Computer Science Department
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063
www.cs.smith.edu
Arts oriented courses:
csc106, Introduction to
Computing and the Arts; csc240,
Computer Graphics; csc260
Programming Techniques for the
Interactive Arts, csc354 Seminar
on Digital Sound and Music
Processing, and others.
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Computer Science Minors:
digital art, digital music, theory,
programming, systems, computer
science and language, and
mathematical foundations of
computer science, or self-designed.
For more information on these
courses, visit the computer
science web site at
www.cs.smith.edu.
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Facilities
Computer Science contains and
shares assorted computerequipped classrooms in the
science center. Machines include
dual boot linux/windows
workstations as well as triple boot
Macintosh computers.
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Students
Computer Science students are very
active in the department. Two liaisons
(Alex Cheng and Diana Jaunzeikare
this year) attend department
meetings, and run social events like
movie and game night.
Many students work as teaching
assistants, running help sessions,
grading, and aiding students during
teaching labs.
Many students also do research as
special studies, as research grant
assistants, or as honors theses.
Students and faculty members
pursue interdisciplinary research
and class work using digital
circuits and microprocessor kits;
robot arms, dogs, and platforms;
sensors and synthesizers, for
digital sound and music; digital
video cameras and a Gypsy 3.0
wireless model motion capture
system; and a 3-D printer, a laser
scanner and a laser cutter for
rapid prototyping.
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Computer Science shares the
Center for Design and Fabrication,
a college-wide resource used by
artists and scientists alike.
Applications such as Adobe
Photoshop and Illustrator;
Macromedia Dreamweaver; Matlab
and Mathematica; Final
Cut Pro; Processing, Flash and
Sketch up are available, as are QT,
Java, and python for advanced
programming; Keykit, Csound, and
Pure Data for computer sound and
music; and OpenGL, GameMaker,
and POV-Ray, and blender for
computer graphics.