Computer Science
What do Computer Scientists do?
Architects of the digital age and information economy! From smartphones and gaming equipment to wearable technologies and smart home devices, computer systems are ingrained into daily lives. Computer scientists develop applications and programs that can accomplish a range of functions.
Subfields of Computer Science
- Theoretical computer science
- Theory of computation
- Information and coding theory
- Data structures and algorithms
- Programming language theory and formal methods
- Computer systems and computational processes
- Artificial intelligence
- Computer architecture and organization
- Concurrent, parallel and distributed computing
- Computer networks
- Computer security and cryptography
- Databases and data mining
- Computer graphics and visualization
- Image and sound processing
- Applied computer science
- Computational science, finance and engineering
- Social computing and human–computer interaction
- Software engineering