The

UNSW The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive ...

School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is part of the

UNSW Faculty of Engineering The Faculty of Engineering is a constituent body of the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. UNSW was formed on 1 July 1949, and the Faculty was established on 8 May 1950 with the inaugural meeting of the Faculty taking place on ...

and was founded in 1991 out of the former Department of Computer Science within the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.Hampton, B., Allen, B., Loeffel, R. The History of the UNSW Faculty of Engineering 1949-2009. UNSW Press 2009. It is the highest ranked and largest School of its kind in Australia. The academic staff have research focus in areas such as

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, Biomedical Image Computing, Data Knowledge,

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, Networked Systems and Security, Programming Languages and Compilers, Service Oriented Computing,

Theoretical Computer Science Theoretical computer science (TCS) is a subset of general computer science and mathematics that focuses on mathematical aspects of computer science such as the theory of computation, lambda calculus, and type theory. It is difficult to circumsc ...

and Trustworthy Systems.

was a founding member of National ICT Australia (

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), which merged with

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in 2015 to form

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. CSE maintains strong ties with

. The school has a number of notable alumni and former staff, including Associate Professor

John Lions John Lions (19 January 1937 – 5 December 1998) was an Australian computer scientist. He is best known as the author of ''Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code'', commonly known as the ''Lions Book''. Early life Lions ga ...

the author of the commentary on the

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operating system, a two-volume book entitled, a Source Code and Commentary on Unix Level 6) (

A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ''A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System'' by John Lions (later reissued as ''Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition'') is a highly influential 1976 publication containing analytical commentary on the source code of the 6th Edition Unix compu ...

) who passed away in 1998.

Excellence in Research for Australia

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initiative results for World-Class Research in Information Technology *2020/21: Ranked first in Australia in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings *2018/19: Shared first with ANU for Computer Software *2018/19: Maintained a rating of 5 for broad research fields of Engineering and Information and Computing Sciences *2013: Only Australian University to achieve a rank of 5 (the highest ranking) in Computer Software *2011: Broadest range (5 areas, the next highest was only in 2 areas) in Australia

Rankings

School Achievements

Student projects

Students of the School are involved in a number of high-profile projects, including:
rUNSWift
the University's team in the international

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competition, is the most successful team in the world, with wins in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2014 and 2015, as well as coming second in 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2010. *

Sunswift The UNSW Solar Racing Team (also known as Sunswift after the name of their first race car) is the solar car racing team of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. The team currently holds a number of world records and is best kno ...

Solar Cars ** 2018: Guinness World Record with car "VIolet" - Lowest Energy Consumption Driving Trans-Australia (Perth to Sydney) - Electric Car. ** 2014: FIA Land Speed Record with car "Sunswift eVe" - Sunswift eVe breaks the record for the fastest electric car over 500 kilometres (310 mi), with an average speed of 107 kilometres per hour (66 mph). The previous record of 73 kilometres per hour (45 mph) was set in 1988. ** 2011: Guinness World Record with car "Sunswift IVy" - Fastest Solar Powered Vehicle: 88.8 kilometres per hour (55.2 mph). ** 2009: Winner of the Silicon Challenge Class at the Global Green Challenge with the car "Sunswift IVy". * BLUEsat Satellite ** 2018: 8th in the European Rover Challenge (ERC)

Student competitions

Computing facilities

The School has computer laboratories for coursework teaching and student projects, including a number of specialist laboratories. The network supports well in excess of 1000 computers for teaching, research and administration. * 300+ Intel-based computers running Linux in 13 generic teaching laboratories; Microsoft Windows is available 'virtualized' in all Linux labs * 20 AppleOS computers reserved in a specialized teaching laboratory * 40 Linux computers in laboratories reserved for thesis students * 1200+ computing sessions available in a 'virtualized' lab environment * 150+ heterogeneous computers dedicated to post-grad research students * 10+ discrete GPU servers for deep-learning research * 40+ discrete CPU servers available in Linux clusters for research * Virtual Reality lab * laptop locker * 1 multi-host vSphere production cluster with dedicated 60TB SAN ** 100 virtualized servers for academic staff teaching and research requirements * 1 multi-host vSphere research cluster with dedicated 20TB SAN ** 30 virtualized servers for dedicated and ad-hoc research requirements * 30+ heterogeneous computers for administration and systems support * extensive backup infrastructure, utilizing incremental and full backup to tape The School is committed to a regular cycle of upgrades and invests heavily to maintain a state-of-the-art IT environment. UNSW Sydney has a very high capacity, free, wireless Internet service for all students and staff.

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