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Information & Computer Sciences DONALD BREN SCHOOL OF INFORMATION & COMPUTER SCIENCES UC Irvine’s nationally ranked Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences began as an academic department in 1968, in recognition of the emerging importance of this new field. Established as a school in 2002, ICS was renamed in June 2004 after benefactor Donald Bren, whose generous support of the school’s intellectual capital will serve generations of students to come. The school dedicated its newest high-tech facility, Donald Bren Hall, in June 2007. As the only computer science school in the University of California and one of only a handful in the nation, ICS is an academic leader and one of the broadest computing programs in the country. With three departments – computer science, informatics and statistics – ICS has become a major of choice at UCI, offering four undergraduate degrees: computer science, informatics, information and computer science, and computer science and engineering. This flexibility provides ICS students with the tools needed to adapt to a rapidly changing discipline. ICS’ nearly 1,000 undergraduates and 300 graduate students traditionally have one of the highest mean SAT and GRE scores on campus. Noteworthy alumni include “Father of CAD” Patrick Hanratty, author of Domain Name System (DNS) and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Paul Mockapetris, and architect of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1) and founder of Apache HTTP Server Project Roy Fielding. Research Expertise ICS faculty expertise spans a diverse spectrum, including: computer architecture; embedded systems design; networked and distributed systems; compilers and operating systems, programming models and languages; security, privacy and cryptography; ubiquitous computing; experiential multimedia computing; graphics and visual computing; artificial intelligence and machine learning; bio-medical informatics; scientific computing; theory of computing; database and information management; information design; software engineering; human computer interaction; computer supported collaborative work; social informatics; arts computation engineering, computer science education, Bayesian methodology; statistical computing; biostatistics; and astrostatistics. The school is involved in several UCI research centers established to support substantial growth in interdisciplinary information technology research, including: the Ada Byron Research Center, Arts Computation Engineering, the Center for Cyber-Security and Privacy, the Center for Embedded Computer Systems, the Center for Machine Learning and Data Mining, the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations, the Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing, the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, the Institute for Software Research, the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction, the Networked Systems Center and the Center for Large-Scale Data Analysis. In addition, ICS faculty members are leading research efforts within the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), one of four Institutes for Science and Innovation within the University of California.
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