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50 years of computing excellence

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Hear from Rebecca Willett on May 3

Her talk for the Cray Distinguished Speaker Series is about inverse problems in imaging.

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Attend the Data Science Poster Fair this Friday

The virtual event will be held via Zoom on April 23 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

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Saving the planet with data science

Ph.D. student Jared Willard uses data mining to predict water temperatures.

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New CS&E research presented at The Web Conference 2021

Kangjie Lu, Feng Qian, and Zhi-Li Zhang co-authored three new research papers being shared at the virtual conference held April 19-23, 2021.
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Alumni Hui Xiong promoted to Distinguished Professor

Xiong (Ph.D. 2005) is also the Director of Rutgers Center for Information Assurance at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
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CS&E undergraduate student Caleb Feltis wins Boren scholarship

He is a senior honors student in the College of Liberal Arts, with a triple major in computer science, linguistics, and French studies.

1,923

undergraduate students

505

graduate students

57

faculty members

The Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota has come a long way in the past 50 years. We have made tremendous progress and have become one of the most vibrant and interdisciplinary departments within the College of Science and Engineering, the University of Minnesota, and the computer science field at large.

Watch and listen to stories of how the department started, the years of growth, and where we are headed in the future.