Faculty of Automation and Computer Science
Computer Science Department description
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Technical University of Cluj-Napoca Faculty of Automation and Computer Science Computer Science Department description |
The Department of Computer Science is one of the largest departments of the Technical University. Our academic staff is directly involved in teaching and research.
The Department has a wide range of research topics which addresses fundamental issues in Computer Science and Information Technology: design and analysis of algorithms, denotational semantics, formal languages, data communications, computer graphics, computer aided design, operating systems, object-oriented methods, parallel algorithms and processing, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, advanced user interfaces, artificial vision and image processing. At the same time, the Department developed applied projects which involve industrial partnerships, cross-departmental groups and inter faculty teams.
Some members of the academic staff are completing their PhD studies or invited as research fellows at prestigious universities or research centres in USA, Canada, Germany and Japan.
There are seven teaching & research groups in the Computer Science Department, each headed by a Professor. Additionally, there are a Networking Center, a service group and a secretary.
You can see a list of our most important research fields below.
A directory of the staff of the department grouped in research groups is also available.
Our department has been the host and organizer of the 1st International Workshop on Intelligent Computer Communication held in Cluj-Napoca in 29-30 July 1995. The programme committee of this workshop included researchers from Tilburg University (The Netherlands), GMD Sankt Augustin (Germany), DFKI Saarbrücken (Germany), Exeter University (UK), University of Edinburgh (UK), SRI International , Camridge (UK), University of Hagen(Germany). Presenters of papers accepted by the programme committee after the reviewing process have been not just from Romania but also from University of Technology of Compiègne (France), Technische Universität München (Gremany), University of Toronto (canada), University of Geneva (switzerland), ETRI Taejon (Korea), Conservatoire National Des Art et Métiers Paris (France), The University of New South Wales (Australia), LIMSI (France), West Virginia University (USA).
The Department offers the following degrees:
Since 1982, more than 600 students graduated the courses of the Computer Science Department. During the academic year 1994-1995 the Department registered 60 students for each year of study for the normal degree. Beginning with this academic year, the Department started an English tuition system for the normal degree, attended by 60 students. 16 students are registered for MCSE while 29 are registered for PhD.
A directory of the teaching staff, a document with the curricula, and descriptions for the courses for long cycle higher education, short cycle higher education and MSCE are also available.
The Department is involved in two EC JEP Tempus Programs. The DISCO Program 1994-97, aims to the development in Romania of short-term higher education in computing, centred on distributed processing and its application. Foreign partners involved in this program are universities from France (Grenoble, Marseilles, Paris), Italy (Politecnico di Torino), The Netherlands (Free Univ. Amsterdam), UK (Univ. of London, Loughborough Univ of Technol.) and Germany (Ruhr Univ. Bochum).
The IARCOD Program 1994-97, is dedicated to the development of a short cycle and practically oriented higher education system in Romania universities. Foreign partners of the program are universities from Germany (FHS Regensburg), The Netherlands (TU Eindhoven), Ireland (Univ. Limerick), Greece (Technol. Inst. Athens).
The CNTP Program 1995-98 aims to the systematic training of network managers and users and to the development of computer network services offered in support to the university management and administration, and is closely linked to the Romanian Academic Computer Network. The foreign partners of the program are the Technical University of Danmerk (TUD), National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Technical University of Tampere (TUT), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL) and Darlington College of Technology (DCT).
The research program "Hardware labor with FPGA", november 1994- november 1995, is dedicated to the development of an educational program in a specific branch of computer systems. This program is run within cooperation with the Department of Informatics, the Institute of Computer Systems of the ETH Zurich, coordinated by prof. Wirth and prof. Eberle.
Some members of our academic staff received individual mobility EC Tempus grants for professional visits for updating and retraining in EC universities.
During 4-7 October 1995 the department has been visited by Dr. Ellen D. Hoadley, the head of the MIS Department of Loyola College in Maryland (USA) and Mr Frank J. Ponzio from Symbolic Systems, Inc., New Jersey (USA). Dr. Hoadley and Mr Ponzio participated at a workshop for young researchers.
In October 1995, professor Hans Eberle from ETH Zurich has visited our department within the research project "Hardware labor with FPGA". During his visit, professor Eberle has given a talk entitled "Switcherland" about high speed networks inside workstations.
Many research activities are partly or fully funded by external sources. We are participating in the European TEMPUS programs . A series of projects in the main research areas listed above, have been launched by the department for the next three years and granted by The Ministry of Research and Technology and by The Doctoral Research Division of the Ministry of Science and Education.
The Department is equipped with computers (Sun, IBM R/6000, IBM 286 LAN). Hardware and software design is supported by state of the art tools (e.g. tools for VHDL, CAD for printed circuit boards and PLDs, object-oriented software development tools, toolkits based on Windows, communications toolkits). Our equipment includes IBM-PC based local networks and multimedia systems.
Since 1995 our students regularly attended the Student National Competition on Software and Hardware Engineering, collecting every year places in the top. Each year, the Department and, since 1992 the Student Union, organizes a Symposium where the best student research results are presented.