The Department of Computer Science of the University of Bristol, is the

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department of the

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and is based in the

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building on Woodland Road, close to

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city centre. the department is home to 145 academic staff, researchers, and

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students.

Research

Research in the department is organised around 10 research groups, which focus on

cryptography Cryptography, or cryptology (from grc, , translit=kryptós "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or ''-logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adver ...

algorithms In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm () is a finite sequence of rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation. Algorithms are used as specifications for performing c ...

, Human–computer interaction (HCI),

computer vision Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate tasks that the hum ...

artificial intelligence (AI) Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...

, verification,

computational neuroscience Computational neuroscience (also known as theoretical neuroscience or mathematical neuroscience) is a branch of neuroscience which employs mathematical models, computer simulations, theoretical analysis and abstractions of the brain to u ...

cybersecurity Computer security, cybersecurity (cyber security), or information technology security (IT security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from attack by malicious actors that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, the ...

robotics Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of computer science and engineering. Robotics involves design, construction, operation, and use of robots. The goal of robotics is to design machines that can help and assist humans. Robotics integrat ...

high-performance computing High-performance computing (HPC) uses supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems. Overview HPC integrates systems administration (including network and security knowledge) and parallel programming into a mult ...

, and

programming languages A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs. Most programming languages are text-based formal languages, but they may also be graphical. They are a kind of computer language. The description of a programming ...

History

The Department of Computer Science was formally established around 1984. Its heads of department include # Professor Mike Rogers (1984-1995) # Professor David May (1995-2006) # Professor

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(2006-?) # Professor Andrew Calway # Professor Seth Bullock (2016-2020) # Professor Christian Allen (2020-2021) # Dr. Aisling O'Kane (2021-)

Notable faculty members

the department employs fourteen

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s, shown below: # Professor Awais Rashid # Professor

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# Professor

Peter Flach Pieter Adriaan Flach (born 8 April 1961, Sneek) is a Dutch computer scientist and a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol. He is author of the acclaimed Simply Logical: Intellige ...

# Professor Majid Mirmehdi # Professor Seth Bullock # Professor Kerstin Eder # Professor Walterio Mayol-Cuevas # Professor Simon McIntosh-Smith # Professor Andrew Calway # Professor Kirsten Cater # Professor Ian Nabney # Professor Chris Preist # Professor Bogdan Warinschi # Professor Dima Damen

References

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