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Welcome to the Department of Computer Science
The Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University, in the heart of Washington, DC, is home to higher education and advanced research on the cutting edge of computing and technology. BS, BA, MS, and Ph.D. programs connect students with the ideas, skills, and opportunities to shape the digital world we live in. The department is rapidly growing, with current core research areas of algorithms and theory; security, privacy, and cryptography; and data-centric computing. Faculty members in the department have been honored with a Gödel Prize, Test-of-Time awards, membership in the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, NSF CAREER awards, and Best Paper awards, among other accolades. Students and faculty engage beyond the department through interdisciplinary courses and research, campus initiatives like guWeCode, public and private sector internships, local computing groups, and regional events.
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Justin Thaler Leads New NSF Project on Automatically Parallelizing Approximate Data Analysis with Mergeable Summaries
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Kobbi Nissim and Co-Authors Receive the 2019 Caspar Bowden PET Award for the paper "Bridging the Gap between Computer Science and Legal Approaches to Privacy"
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Micah Sherr Leads New DARPA Project on Reliable Anonymous Communication
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Ethics to Become Key Part of Georgetown’s Computer Science Curriculum