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School of Computer Science Overview |
The UNLV School of Computer Science is the largest academic unit in the Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering comprising 41% of total enrollment. We have approximately 246 majors and 65 graduate students at the MS and PhD levels. Our ABET accredited undergraduate program offers both the Bachelors of Science and Bachelors of Arts degrees. At the School we emphasize a high quality undergraduate academic atmosphere and strive to create a dynamic and creative research environment for our graduate students. Our program is nationally and internationally recognized for research in both theoretical and experimental computer science, especially in such areas as real-time algorithms, information retrieval, document analysis, graphics, computational geometry, networking, information customization, cybermedia, and Internet security. Our 12 full-time, permanent faculty have received a variety of teaching and research awards including the IEEE Outstanding Research Award, ACM Outstanding Lecturer of the Year Award, and ACM Outstanding Contribution Award, as well as, numerous College of Engineering and campus-wide teaching awards.
Our undergraduate curriculum is designed to provide students with a solid grounding in mainstream computer science that includes coursework in algorithms, operating systems, programming languages, and theory of computing. We offer a variety of additional courses in fields such as networking, database management, graphics, computer architecture, and artificial intelligence. We produce students who can design and build software systems for business, industrial, and scientific organizations.
 Our computing laboratory, located in TBE B-361, has 33 Trios dual boot (Windows Professional and Fedora Core 3) Gateway E6100: 2.8GHz P4 with hyperthreading, 1GB RAM, 2 X 80GB hard drive machines. It provides access to the computer science and engineering college networks as well as direct Internet connectivity. All students are issued accounts on our general purpose server, bobby.cs.unlv.edu (Fedora Core 3, IBM xSeries 440: 4 X 2.4 GHz Xeon CPUs with hyperthreading, 4GB RAM).
In addition to a database server used for instructional purposes (Oracle 10.1, IBM xSeries 206: 2.8 GHz P4 with hyperthreading, 750MB RAM, 2 X 80GB SATA hard drives), we have several new machines. They include a general purpose login machine to be used by operating systems and computer networking courses (Fedora Core 3, IBM xSeries 440: 2 X 1.9 GHz Xeon CPUs with hyperthreading, 2 GB RAM), an NFS and Samba file server and backup (Fedora Core 3, Supermicro 7044HTR: 2 X 3.0 GHz Xeon CPUs with hyperthreading, 2GB RAM, 8 X 200GB SATA Raid 5 file system), and an authentication server and backup (Gateway 960: 2 X 2.4 GHZ P4 CPUs with hyperthreading, 2GB RAM, 4 X 200GB SATA Raid 5 file system). Our new systems, once fully implemented, will offer users up to 500GB of storage.
The administrative office of the School of Computer Science is located in the Thomas Beam Engineering Building, room A211. Faculty offices and computer laboratories are located on the 3rd floor of the Thomas Beam Engineering B Building.
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