2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog

Computer Science and Information Technology

The computer-science field has demonstrated dramatic growth and technological development within the last decade. The twenty-first century is heralding the emergence of nanotechnology, ubiquitous computing, computer games, and wireless networking. The Computer Science and Information Technology (CS/IT) Department is responding to these technological challenges by offering a dynamic course of study that is responsive to the ever-changing field of computer technology.

The CS/IT curriculum has three tracks: Computer Science, Information Technology, and Computer Gaming Design and Development. The Computer Science track is geared to those students with strong mathematics and the desire to participate in the research and development side of computer science. The Information Technology track is for those students interested in interface, multimedia, and system design for various business applications, and the Computing Gaming Design and Development track is for students who wish to design and develop games for entertainment, simulation, and training.

Faculty

EMAN ABDELFATTAH, PhD

Lecturer

SANDRA ADAMS, MS

Associate Professor

MOSHE COHEN, MS

Instructor

FRANCES GRODZINSKY, PhD

Professor

EFIM KINBER, PhD

Professor

GREGORY KYRYTSCHENKO, MBA

Instructor

KERI MATTHEWS, MS

Instructor

ROBERT MCCLOUD, EdD

Associate Professor

DOMENICK J. PINTO, MA, MA, MS

Associate Professor, Department Chair

FRANCESCO SARDO, MS

Instructor

Computer Science Facilities

There are four state-of-the-art computing labs dedicated to computer science courses. These contain the latest flat screen Dell Optiplex computers with DVD, CD-R/W drives. In addition, the conference room of the CS/IT department serves as a mini-lab used exclusively by CS/IT majors for projects, homework, and tutoring and is equipped with the same state-of-the-art equipment. There is also a Networking/Unix lab equipped with 15 Linux machines and a variety of Cisco routers. This closed LAN laboratory is used for networking and Unix shell programming courses and is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week for those students. All labs are on a three-year replacement cycle.

Software available in the labs includes:

Microsoft Office 2013

Adobe Director 12.0 Flash CS6 Fireworks CS6 Dreamweaver CS6

V.B. Net 2013

Visual C++ 2013

Visual C# 2013

Visual Studio 2013

Borland JBuilder

Sony Sound Forge 10.0 Adobe Photoshop CS5 Visio 2010