Computer & Information Sciences
60th Anniversary Celebration
1964 – 2024
May 5, 2024
Timeline
June 6, 1964
Department of Computer Science and Statistics is established at the University of Delaware and becomes the 9th Computer Science Department to be established in the United States.
1964
1969
1969
1970
May, 1970
Hatem M. Khalil is the first to earn a Computer Science Ph.D. at UD. He would later go on to become Acting Chair of Computer Science from 1978 to 1981.
October, 1970
1971
1972
1973
The PDP-11/45 Computer System is installed.
1974
1978
1978
1980
1981
1982
1982
January 1, 1983
1984
1987
1988
B. David Saunders serves as acting department chair for the 1988–1989 academic year.
1989
1992
Sandra Carberry, Dan Chester, and Kathy McCoy help organize the 30th International Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, the leading conference in Natural Language Processing.
1993
1994
Errol L. Lloyd becomes department chair, serving until 1999.
1995
1995
1996
1997
October, 1998
1999
Professor M. Sandra Carberry becomes chair of the Computer and Information Sciences Department. Carberry graduated with a Ph.D. from UD CIS in 1985 and was chair from 1999 to 2004.
2000
2004
2005
B. David Saunders becomes chair of the department, serving until 2010.
2006
November 21, 2006
2010
Department of Computer and Information Sciences joins the College of Engineering.
2010
2011
February, 2011
2015
Kathy McCoy becomes chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, serving from 2015 to 2021.
2016
CIS Department SPARC (Student Project Arena for Research and Collaboration) Lab opens. This lab was created as a new space for Computer Science students aimed at facilitating teamwork.
2016
2017
Professor James Clause and co-authors receive the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis Impact Paper Award for their 2007 paper Dytan: A Generic Dynamic Taint Analysis Framework.
2017
2020
Professor Cathy Wu, Unidel Edward G. Jefferson Chair in Engineering and Computer Science, is named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for her contributions to bioinformatics, computational biology, knowledge mining and semantic data integration. The ACM Fellow is the most prestigious member grade, recognizing the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology.
2021
2021
The International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing is held on the UD campus, organized by CIS professor Sunita Chandrasekaran and ECE professor Xiaoming Li.
2022
Dr. Weisong Shi, an internationally renowned expert in edge computing, autonomous driving, and connected health is named Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences.
2022
August, 2023
Seven faculty members and several labs move to the new FinTech Innovation Hub on STAR Campus.
2023
2023
Professor Chandra Kambhamettu is selected to be co-General Chair of the 2026 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, the premier annual computer vision conference.
2023
Mobile Computing And Networking. MobiCom is the premier international forum addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support the symbiosis of mobile computers and wireless networks.
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Computing is the defining technology of our age, and since 1964 UD’s department of Computer & Information Sciences has prepared Blue Hens to build a better future.
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