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Computer Science Department
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Computer Science
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Computer Science
The mission of the Computer Science Department is to:
- Prepare students for participation in all phases of software development;
- Provide a foundation of fundamental concepts which will accommodate emerging technologies;
- Promote the university's overall mission of integrating faith, learning and living.
We offer degrees in Computer Science and Software Development, which prepare students for placement in the following positions:
- Software Engineer
- Computer Systems Analyst
- Database Programmer/Administrator
- Network Engineer
- Web Developer
- Graduate studies in Computer Science
We also offer degrees in Cybersecurity (in partnership with the Information Systems Department) and Data Science (in partnership with the Math Department).
B.A. in computer science-MSIS is an accelerated dual degree offered to computer science students who have completed 90 hours of undergraduate coursework with a 3.0 GPA. The result is the completion of a B.A. in computer science and a M.S. in information systems in five years or less.
You may browse the courses we offer, learn about our faculty, and see the awards and honors our students have earned. Additional information can be obtained from Dr. Tim Baird. Admission information is available from Harding University Admissions.
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Harding began its computer science degree in 1982, and in 1994, the degree became its own department and Baird became the chair, a title he still holds almost 30 years later.
Dr. Tim Baird ,
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Chairman and Professor of Computer Science
Upcoming Events: Fall 2022 Computer Seminar Schedule
Upcoming Events: Fall 2022 Computing Seminar Schedule
Seminars are held in Science room 113. All Friday seminars are at 7:00 am; seminars on other days are at 4:00 pm unless posted otherwise. All are welcome!
Fri, Sep 16 2 pm | Keith Perry (Alumnus) CIO at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | How Harding Equipped Me for My Career |
Thu, Sep 22 | Kerry Jenkins (Alumnus) and other ArcBest employees | Making the Transition from Harding to Corporate Environment: A Panel Discussion |
Fri, Sep 23 | Gilley Stilley Nick Emlaw | Apache Spark for Big Data Analysis Machine Learning in R |
Thu, Sep 29 | David Mohundro (Alumnus) Clear Function Inc | From Project Kickoff to Delivery: Looking at a Real-World Project |
Fri, Sep 30 | Nestor Alfaro Edwin Morataya | Sarsa vs Q-Learning Ruby on Rails |
Thu, Oct 13 | Dr. Gabriel Foust CS Department | Choose Your Weapon: Advanced Programming Topics to Increase Your Code-Fu |
Fri, Oct 14 | Brendon McDonald Karen Carballo | Creative Programming using the Processing Language Next.js |
Thu, Oct 20 | Dr. Jason Holland Math Department | Harding's New Machine Learning Course |
Fri, Oct 21 | Anny Cabrera Nathan Arnold | DALL-E 2: Text-To-Image Generator The New Carbon Language from Google |
Thu, Oct 27 | Brian Jones (Alumnus) Microsoft | Faith in the Workplace |
Fri, Oct 28 | Noah Overton James Phillips | Evolution of Hostile AI in Game Design NLP and the Enron Email Corpus |
Fri, Nov 4 | Andrew Gomez Asher Pace | Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services Analyzing Data with Alteryx |
Fri, Nov 11 | Carson French Jonathan Holland | Web Crawling and Scraping Cheating and Integrity in Online Gaming Systems |
Fri, Nov 18 | Noah McFarland Chad Morris | Cloud Underground and the Underground Nexus On Demand Reporting with HealthComp's ODR System |