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{{Short description|Academic unit at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, US}}
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The '''Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science''', known as '''Cornell Bowers CIS''' for short, is an entity within [[Cornell University]]. The college comprises the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Information Science, and the Department of Statistics and Data Science.<ref name="cis-departments">{{cite web | url=https://cis.cornell.edu/about/departments | title=Departments | publisher=Cornell Bowers CIS | access-date=November 12, 2022 }}</ref> However, as Cornell computer science professor [[David Gries]] has explained, "essentially it's a college without students,"<ref name="OHCS-Constable"/> with students instead being admitted to, and coming from, three of Cornell's regular undergraduate schools: the [[Cornell University College of Engineering|College of Engineering]], the [[Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences|College of Arts and Sciences]], and the [[New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University|College of Agriculture and Life Sciences]].<ref name="cis-undergrad">{{cite web | url=https://cis.cornell.edu/students/undergraduate-opportunities | title=Undergraduate Opportunities | publisher=Cornell Bowers CIS | access-date=November 12, 2022 }}</ref> A variety of degree programs are offered through the college, depending upon the department within the college and the originating college the student is in; the degrees granted include [[Bachelor of Arts]] and [[Bachelor of Science]]; [[Master of Science]], [[Master of Engineering]], and [[Master of Professional Studies]]; and [[PhD]].<ref name="cis-departments"/> In addition, students from any of Cornell's seven different undergraduate schools can [[Academic minor|minor]] in computer science or information science.<ref name="cis-undergrad"/> ▼
{{Infobox university
| name = Cornell University Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science
| image = Bill & Melinda Gates Hall at Cornell University.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Bill & Melinda Gates Hall
| established = {{start date and age|2020}} <!-- announced Dec 2020 -->
| type = [[Private college|Private]]
| city = [[Ithaca, New York|Ithaca]]
| state = [[New York (state)|New York]]
| country = U.S.
| coordinates = {{coord|42|26|42|N|76|28|51|W|region:US-NY_type:edu|display=title}}
| undergrad = 2,430 <small>(see article)</small>
| postgrad = 875 <small>(see article)</small>
| faculty = {{ubl|72 (computer science)|35 (information science)|21 (statistics and data science)}}
| dean = [[Kavita Bala]]
| affiliations = [[Cornell University]]
| logo = File:Cornell Bowers CIS logo.png
| website = {{url|https://cis.cornell.edu}}
}}
The '''Cornell University Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science''' (formerly the '''Faculty of Computing and Information Science''' from 1999 to 2020), also known as '''Cornell Computing and Information Science''', is a tri-department unit at [[Cornell University]] in [[Ithaca, New York]]. It consists of the departments of Computer Science, Information Science, and Statistics and Data Science.
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▲== Faculty of Computing and Information Science ==
The college came out of the '''Faculty of Computing and Information Science''', which was established in 1999 to unify computer science-related efforts throughout the university.<ref name="chron-constable"/> The initiative, done under the university presidency of [[Hunter R. Rawlings III]], overcame early opposition from many professors in both the Engineering and Arts schools.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://cis.cornell.edu/great-panel-cis-20th-anniversary-event-recalls-ciss-controversial-creation | title=Great Panel at CIS 20th Anniversary Event Recalls CIS's Controversial Creation | publisher=Cornell Bowers CIS | date=October 2019 | access-date=November 23, 2022}}</ref> The new faculty's first dean was [[Robert L. Constable]], a longtime professor of computer science at Cornell who specialized in connecting computer programs with mathematical proof systems.<ref name="chron-constable"/> The idea of the entity, which Constable had been one of the primary advocates for, was to elevate [[computer science]] from the department level to the college level;<ref name="OHCS-Constable">{{cite interview |last=Constable |first=Robert L. |subject-link= |interviewer=David Gries |title=A Conversation with Robert L. Constable |work=An Oral History of Computer Science |date=July 21, 2015 |publisher= Cornell University Library |___location= |url=https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/40560 }} See segments at 2:05 and 31:25.</ref> this was seen as critical given the field's increasingly widespread importance to nearly every area of study at the university.<ref name="ap-fcis-gates"/> Furthermore, the [[information science]] side of the faculty would focus on how computer-related technology was affecting society and the world.<ref name="chron-bowers"/> ▼
== History ==
=== Faculty of Computing and Information Science ===
In 2005, the Department of Statistical Science was incorporated into the faculty.<ref>{{cite book | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kPGJUiUCJZkC&pg=PA49 | chapter=Biometrics and Statistical Science at Cornell | author-first=James G. | author-last=Booth | author2-first=Martin T. | author2-last=Wells | title=Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S. | editor-first=Alan | editor-last=Agresti | editor2-first=Xiao-Li | editor2-last=Meng | publisher=Springer | ___location=New York | year= 2013 | pages=39 50 | isbn=978-1-4614-3649-2 }} At p. 49.</ref> A $25 million donation from the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]] in 2006 led to the construction of the building named after couple,<ref name="ap-fcis-gates">{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112997205/ | title=Cornell to build info campus with Gates gift | agency=Associated Press | newspaper= Star-Gazette | ___location=Elmira, New York | date=January 26, 2006 | page=4A | via=Newspapers.com }}</ref> which opened in 2014.<ref name="ithvoice-2022"/> Other CIS facilities include [[Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing|Rhodes Hall]],<ref name="ithvoice-2022"/> as well as Malott Hall.<ref name="cis-departments"/>▼
▲The college came out of the '''Faculty of Computing and Information Science''', which was established in 1999 to unify computer science-related efforts throughout the university.<ref name="chron-constable"/>
▲In 2005, the Department of Statistical Science was incorporated into the faculty.<ref>{{cite book | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kPGJUiUCJZkC&pg=PA49 | chapter=Biometrics and Statistical Science at Cornell | author-first=James G. | author-last=Booth | author2-first=Martin T. | author2-last=Wells | title=Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S. | editor-first=Alan | editor-last=Agresti | editor2-first=Xiao-Li | editor2-last=Meng | publisher=Springer | ___location=New York | year= 2013 | pages=39 50 | isbn=978-1-4614-3649-2 }} At p. 49.</ref>
Constable would remain as the faculty's dean for ten years.<ref name="chron-constable">{{cite news |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/06/robert-constable-step-down-cis-dean |title=Robert Constable, founding dean of computing and information science, will step down in 2009 |first=Bill |last=Steele |date=June 11, 2008 |work=Cornell Chronicle | publisher=Cornell University }}</ref> When he stepped down from the post, Provost [[Biddy Martin]] said that Constable had succeeded in giving computing reach into areas as different as architecture, history, plant science, and psychology.<ref name="chron-constable"/> He was succeeded as dean by [[Daniel P. Huttenlocher]].<ref name="chron-legs">{{cite news | url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2010/02/new-dean-says-cis-has-more-legs-stand | title=From the new dean: CIS has more legs to stand on | author-first=Bill | author-last=Steele | work=Cornell Chronicle | date=February 17, 2010 }}</ref>▼
▲Constable would remain as the faculty's dean for ten years.<ref name="chron-constable">{{cite news |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/06/robert-constable-step-down-cis-dean |title=Robert Constable, founding dean of computing and information science, will step down in 2009 |first=Bill |last=Steele |date=June 11, 2008 |work=Cornell Chronicle | publisher=Cornell University }}</ref>
According to Cornell professors and administrators, the Faculty of Computing and Information Science was a "pioneer" in devising this structure, and other universities have since emulated aspects of it.<ref name="ithtimes-2022"/><ref name=":0"/> In particular, other institutions began tying computer science and information science more closely together.<ref name="chron-legs"/> Huttenlocher took the interdisciplinary approach of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science to his next position, at [[Cornell Tech]], and then in the late 2010s he became the first dean of the [[MIT Schwarzman College of Computing]] at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], which also emphasized an interdisciplinary perspective that emphasized the impacts of computing technology on society.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.mit.edu/2019/dan-huttenlocher-named-inaugural-mit-schwarzman-college-of-computing-dean-0221 | title=Dan Huttenlocher named inaugural dean of MIT Schwarzman College of Computing | author-first=Rob | author-last=Matheson | publisher=MIT News Office | date=February 21, 2019 }}</ref>▼
▲According to Cornell professors and administrators, the Faculty of Computing and Information Science was a "pioneer" in devising this structure, and other universities have since emulated aspects of it.<ref name="ithtimes-2022"/><ref name=":0"/>
As an example of how the Faculty of Computing and Information Science emphasized the value of multidisciplinary studies,<ref name="OHCS-Constable"/> one initiative of the faculty was to support [[Double majors in the United States|double major]]s between computer science and a variety of other subjects in any of the Arts, Engineering, or Agriculture schools.<ref name="cacm-wic"/> This proved successful in increasing the number of women who were computer science majors.<ref name="cacm-wic">{{cite journal | author-first=Maria | author-last=Klawe | author2-first=Telle | author2-last=Whitney | author3-first= Caroline | author3-last=Simard | title= Women in Computing—Take 2| journal= Communications of the ACM | volume=52 | number= 2 | date=February 2009 | pages= 68–76 | doi=10.1145/1461928.1461947 | s2cid=1161329 }} At p. 71.</ref> Indeed, by 2020 some 43 percent of students majoring in CIS were female, a figure well above typical for the United States.<ref name="chron-bowers"/>▼
▲As an example of how the Faculty of Computing and Information Science emphasized the value of multidisciplinary studies,<ref name="OHCS-Constable"/> one initiative of the faculty was to support [[Double majors in the United States|double major]]s between computer science and a variety of other subjects in any of the Arts, Engineering, or Agriculture schools.<ref name="cacm-wic"/>
== Formation of the college ==▼
▲=== Formation of the college ===
Creation of the college came in December 2020 with a more-than-$100 million donation from [[Ann_Bowers|Ann S. Bowers]].<ref name="chron-bowers">{{cite news | url=https://infosci.cornell.edu/information/news/newsitem1000/gift-ann-s-bowers-59-creates-new-college-computing-and-information | title=Gift from Ann S. Bowers '59 Creates New College of Computing and Information Science | author-first=Melanie | author-last=Lefkowitz | work= Cornell Chronicle | publisher=Cornell University | date= December 17, 2020 }}</ref>
Bowers, a liberal arts alumnus of Cornell, had been the head of personnel at [[Intel]] during a period of rapid growth in the early 1970s; subsequently married [[Robert Noyce]], the cofounder of Intel; was vice president for human resources at [[Apple Computer]] in the early 1980s; and later became a philanthropist who chaired the [[Noyce Foundation]] following her husband's death.<ref>{{cite book | title=The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley | author-last=Berlin | author-first=Leslie | year= 2005 | publisher =Oxford University Press | ___location=New York | pages=230, 231, 253, 306 }}</ref> She had frequently donated to Cornell in the past.<ref name="chron-bowers"/>
An additional new building is planned, helped by a $10 million donation from the two founders of [[Wayfair]], both Cornell alumni,<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112987588/the-boston-globe/ | title=Cofounders of Wayfair Donate $10 Million to Cornell | newspaper=The Boston Globe | date=September 21, 2021 | page=B6 | via=Newspapers.com }}</ref> as well as from Bowers.<ref name="ithvoice-2022"/>
Graduate student programs in the college take place both in Ithaca and at the [[Cornell Tech]] campus in New York City.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://cis.cornell.edu/future-students/graduate-opportunities | title=Graduate Opportunities | publisher=Cornell Bowers CIS | access-date=November 12, 2022 }}</ref>
By 2022 there were 62 full-time faculty members in the Department of Computer Science, with 49 in Ithaca and 13 in New York City.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cs.cornell.edu/information/about | title=Welcome to Computer Science at Cornell University | author-first=Éva | author-last=Tardos | publisher=Department of Computer Science, Cornell University | access-date=January 28, 2023}}</ref> There were 42 full-time faculty in the Department of Information Science,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://infosci.cornell.edu/about | title=About | date=8 January 2018 | publisher=Department of Information Science, Cornell University | access-date=January 28, 2023}}</ref> and 18 tenure or tenure-track positions in the Department of Statistics and Data Science.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/facultyview.cfm?posting_id=_JOB_POSTING-3-46696 | title=Associate or Full Professor of the Department of Statistics and Data Science; Ithaca, New York | publisher=Human Resources, Cornell University | access-date=January 28, 2023}}</ref> By 2022, there were 2,000 students taking majors in the college,<ref name="tompkweek-2022" /> and 76 percent of all undergraduate students were taking at least one course in CIS.<ref name="ithtimes-2022" /> The college is located in Bill & Melinda Gates Hall near the Engineering Quad on the [[Cornell Central Campus]] in Ithaca, New York.<ref name="cis-rfs">{{cite web |title=Leadership |url=https://cis.cornell.edu/faculty-staff/resources-faculty-staff |access-date=November 12, 2022 |publisher=Cornell Bowers CIS}}</ref> A new 135,000 square-foot building is scheduled to open in 2025 <ref>https://cis.cornell.edu/new-building</ref> to help accommodate the rapidly increasing enrollments in computing and information science subjects.<ref name="ithvoice-2022" />
The inaugural dean of the college is [[Kavita Bala]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Dean Kavita Bala |url=https://cis.cornell.edu/about-college/dean-kavita-bala |access-date=November 11, 2022 |publisher=Cornell Bowers CIS}}</ref> Dean Bala has been named Cornell's 17th provost.<ref>https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/kavita-bala-dean-cornell-bowers-cis-named-provost</ref> She will begin this role on January 1, 2025. Thorsten Joachims, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of computer science and information science, will serve as interim dean of Cornell Bowers CIS. <ref>https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/09/kavita-bala-dean-cornell-bowers-cis-named-provost</ref>
== Rankings ==
Cornell has long had one of the top-ranked computer science programs in the nation.<ref name="cdsun-111578">{{cite news | url=https://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/imageserver.pl?oid=CDS19781115&getpdf=true | title=Computer Dept. Wins Prominence Throughout U.S. | author-first=Michael | author-last=Palazzo | newspaper=The Cornell Daily Sun | date=November 15, 1978 | pages=1, 10, 11 }}</ref>
Cornell ranked in a tie for thirteenth in statistics in the same 2022 rankings.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/statistics-rankings?_sort=rank-asc | title=Best Statistics Programs | work=U.S. News & World Report | date=2022 | access-date=November 16, 2022}}</ref>
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