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Computer Science Program Ranked 3rd in the Nation

In its 2014 report, College Factual ranked WPI's computer sciences major third best in the country, while computer and information sciences ranked fourth, and the engineering major was ranked sixth overall.

WPI Awarded $4.4 Million to Help Bolster the Nation's Cybersecurity Workforce

The university will train the next generation of domestic cybersecurity professionals to help fill a growing national demand for experts and address increasing threats to the nation's critical infrastructure.

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Members of CS department, WPI faculty, administrators, staff and students, as well as family and friends, gathered for a musical commemoration of Matt Ward in the great hall of Higgins house>

 

 

The WPI Computer Science Department is very sad to announce that Matthew O. Ward, Professor of Computer Science, died yesterday at the age of 59 after a battle with cancer. It is a great loss to his family, WPI, the CS department, and the Visualization research community>

 

 

The WPI Computer Science Department is very pleased and proud to announce that Professor Matthew O. Ward has been given the IEEE VPG Software System Award for his work in multivariate visualization and visual analytics>

 

 

WPI Senior Computer Science major Madelyn Coryea wins poster competition sponsored by Engineering Education Service Center (EESC)>

 

 

PhD student Xika Lin advances past first round of i3 competition>

 

Graduate Research Achievement Day (GRAD) 2014: The Innovation Exchange is a showcase for the work of graduate students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute's (WPI) who are engaged in research. >

The WPI Computer Science department hosted the ninth annual High School Programming Competition on March 10, 2014. A total of 136 students forming 46 teams from 23 school districts registered for the event. Participating teams came from central Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont. >

WPI's Cyber-Defense Team Competes at NECCDC Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s cyber-defense team is a group of undergraduate and graduate students who practice defending systems and networks from cyber-attacks. >

Craig Wills' research cited by Wall Street Journal The lead story on the inside section of Saturday's Wall Street Journal, "They Know What You're Shopping For," references work of CS Department Head Craig Wills. >

WPI is hiring for a Faculty Position in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology WPI invites applications for a tenure track (open rank) Professor position with a research focus in Bioinformatics to begin in the fall of 2013. >

 

 

WPI's PR2 Robot has arrived! The Autonomous Robotic Collaboration (ARC) lab in AK 013 welcomes its newest member! >