Department of Computer Science

Dec 20, 2024

Donald Bitzer remembered for groundbreaking career

Dr. Donald L. Bitzer, National Inventors Hall of Fame Member and Distinguished University Research Professor with NC State’s Department of Computer Science, passed away on December 10, 2024 at the age of 90.

Dec 17, 2024

Oceans away from home, CSC student finds community

Satwika Kancharla’s NC State University journey is far from over, but in the last three-and-a-half years, she has made quite an impact as an undergraduate student in the Department of Computer Science (CSC).

Marshall Brain looks up at the sky in the middle of a group of trees.

Dec 17, 2024

Remembering Marshall Brain

Marshall Brain II, professor, director of the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program and founder of the award-winning website HowStuffWorks.com, died on November 20, 2024.

team presentation at posters and pies 2024

Dec 9, 2024

Collaboration brings NC State University’s colleges closer

The simulation that NC State computer science students are developing for Poole College lecturer Jenn Woodhull-Smith is creative, engaging and innovative. So is the real-world collaboration between Poole and the…

The 2024 DEA recipients, from left: Lane Ross Miller, Tracy B. Doaks and Tony McLean Brown.

Nov 6, 2024

Brown, Doaks and Miller receive 2024 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award

Three College of Engineering graduates — Tony McLean Brown, Tracy B. Doaks and Lane Ross Miller — received the Distinguished Engineering Alumni (DEA) Award during a dinner and ceremony on campus on Oct. 30, 2024, as part of Red and White Week.

Three people making a presentation in front of a poster that says "Hackathon"

Oct 25, 2024

Creating cutting-edge Ag Tech

Nearly 50 NC State University undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral scholars spent a fall weekend competing in the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative’s fourth annual Hackathon, taking on real-world agricultural technology…

Oct 9, 2024

Fall 2024 Carla Savage Award winners announced

The awards are named after the incomparable department icon Carla Savage and are an intra-departmental initiative to recognize outstanding achievement and special people within the department.

Four people standing in front of a USDA building

Sep 13, 2024

Grad students put data science skills into action for agriculture

For Neha Jagtap, a recent internship with leading national scientists proved to be a rewarding chance to gain experience solving a real-world agricultural challenge with knowledge she’s gained from computer…

An AI-rendered image symbolizing a computational method called a digital twin.

Aug 22, 2024

Digital twin could help data servers better predict user needs

Researchers in the Department of Computer Science have developed a new method to help data servers more accurately predict users’ needs by leveraging a technique known as a digital twin.