UBC Department of Computer Science
The UBC Computer Science department at the University of British Columbia was established in May 1968. UBC CS is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. As of May 2020, it has 55 faculty, 35 staff, 200 graduate students, and 1300 undergraduates.[1]
History
The Computer Science department was established in May 1968 by six founding UBC faculty members:[2]
- After more than a decade working with Atomic Energy of Canada, Dr. Kennedy joined the department in January 1966 as Director of the Computing Centre, a position he held until June 1980. The Computing Centre served computing needs across the university, including Computer Science. In addition, he became a professor in the Department of Computer Science in 1968.
- Hugh Dempster was one of the founding members of the department of Computer Science in 1968. Prior to that, Hugh had worked at UBC in the Computing Centre.
- Edward Argyle, another founding member, had worked at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Lab in Penticton, and published widely on computer science and astrophysics.
- Founding member, Wilfred J. Hansen wrote one of the founding texts on data structures, "Data Structures" and "Data Structures in Pascal".
- John L. Allard was a founding faculty member.
- John J.E.L. Peck was the first Department Head and remained so until 1977.
Research activities
The department's research activities are organized around a number of collaborative research groups:[3]
- AI (Artificial Intelligence)
- Algorithms Lab
- CAIDA (Centre for Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making & Action)
- DFP (Designing for People Cluster)
- DMM (Data Management and Mining Lab)
- Human-AI Interaction
- Imager Laboratory for Graphics, Visualization and HCI
- InfoVis (Information Visualization Group)
- ISD (Integrated System Design ISD)
- NLP (Natural Language Processing)
- NSS (Networks, Systems and Security Lab)
- PLAI (Programming Languages for Artificial Intelligence)
- SCL (Scientific Computing Laboratory)
- SPIN (Sensory Perception & interaction Research Group)
- SPL (Software Practices Lab)
- SSL (Sensorimotor Systems Lab)
- VisCog (Visual Cognition Lab)
Ratings
The department is rated by Maclean's annual rankings as the second best computer science university program in Canada.[4]
The department is ranked 25th in the world by the QS World University Rankings.[5]
UBC is ranked as the 45th best university in the world by QS World University Rankings.[6]
Notable Faculty
- Anne Condon – bioinformatics and computational complexity, former department chair.
- Gregor Kiczales – His best known work is on Aspect-oriented programming and the AspectJ extension for Java at Xerox PARC. He contributed to the design of the Common Lisp Object System, and is the author of the book The Art of the Metaobject Protocol, along with Jim Des Rivieres and Daniel G. Bobrow.
- Alan Mackworth – Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and founding director of the UBC Laboratory for Computational Intelligence. He is Past President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
- Margo Seltzer – Canada 150 Research Chair in Computer Systems and the Cheriton Family Chair in Computer Science. Former president of USENIX.
- Gail Murphy
- Tamara Munzner
- Joanna McGrenere
- Kevin Leyton-Brown
- David Kirkpatrick
- Cristina Conati
See also
References
- "Canada's Top 10 Universities to Pursue a Computer Science Degree". Canada Study News. 2017-10-30. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
- "Historic milestones". UBC Computer Science.
- "Research". UBC Computer Science.
- "Canada's best university computer science programs: 2020 rankings - Macleans.ca". www.macleans.ca. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
- "QS World University Rankings 2021". Top Universities. 2020-05-28. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
- "University of British Columbia". Top Universities. 2015-07-16. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
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