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Partial List of CS Subdisciplines
The field of research and scholarly activity covered by the
Department of Computer Science is very broad. Some idea of the
breadth is given by the list of special interest groups of the
two main CS professional organizations.
The following are the Special Interest groups of the ACM (
http://www.acm.org/sigs/guide98.html):
- Algorithms and Computational Theory SIGACT
- Ada Programming Language SIGAda
- APL Programming Language SIGAPL
- Applied Computing SIGAPP
- Computer Architecture SIGARCH
- Artificial Intelligence SIGART
- Biomedical Computing SIGBIO
- Computers and the Physically Handicapped SIGCAPH
- Computers and Society SIGCAS
- Computer-Human Interaction SIGCHI
- Data Communication SIGCOMM
- Computer Personnel Research SIGCPR
- Computer Science Education SIGCSE
- Computer Uses in Education SIGCUE
- Design Automation SIGDA
- Systems Documentation SIGDOC
- Computer Graphics SIGGRAPH
- Groupware SIGGROUP
- Information Retrieval SIGIR
- Hypertext/Hypermedia SIGLINK
- Measurement and Evaluation SIGMETRICS
- Microprogramming SIGMICRO
- Management Information Systems SIGMIS
- Multimedia SIGMM
- Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing SIGMOBILE
- Management of Data SIGMOD
- Numerical Mathematics SIGNUM
- Operating Systems SIGOPS
- Programming Languages SIGPLAN
- Security, Audit and Control SIGSAC
- Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation SIGSAM
- Simulation and Modeling SIGSIM
- Software Engineering SIGSOFT
- Electronic Forum on Sound Technology SIGSound
- University and College Computing Services SIGUCCS
- Computing at Community Colleges SIG3C
Another view is given by the list of technical committees of The
IEEE Computer Society ( http://www.computer.org/tab/tab.htm):
- Computer Architecture
- Computer Elements
- Computer Generated Music
- Computer Graphics
- Data Engineering
- Design Automation
- Digital Libraries
- Distributed Processing
- Electronics and the Environment
- Engineering of Computer Based Systems
- Task Force on Internetworking
- Microprocessors and Microcomputers
- Mass Storage Systems
- Multimedia Computing
- Multiple Valued Logic
- Operating Systems
- Parallel Processing
- Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- Real-Time Systems
- Security and Privacy
- Software Engineering
- Supercomputing Applications
- Test Technology
- VLSI
- YUFORIC (Youth Forum in Computer Science and Engineering)
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Ted Baker
2001-09-04