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Information & Computer Science
Department
ABOUT INFORMATION & COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
The Information and Computer Science (ICS) Department at KFUPM was established in September 1979 and it developed and evolved over the years to become one of the active departments of the University in teaching, research, and service to the university. Moreover, the ICS department is recognized throughout the Gulf and many parts of the world for its excellence in education and research. The department provides 2 four-year undergraduate programs leading to Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering. We also have well-established graduate programs leading to the Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) in Software Engineering, Master of Science (MS) in Security & Information Assurance, and a joint program of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science and Engineering. The department has about 37 full-time faculty members in several specialized areas of research.
VISION AND MISSION
The mission of the ICS department is to provide high quality undergraduate and graduate educational programs in Computer Science and Software Engineering.
Contribute significantly to the research and the discovery of new knowledge and methods in computing.
Offer expertise, resources, and services to the community
Keep its faculty members current by providing opportunities for professional development.
The vision of the ICS department is to be a regional leader that is recognized worldwide in education, research and professional development in the areas of Computer Science and Software Engineering.
Latest News
17 Nov 2020
The Long Waited ICS Website is Here!
The department is honored to announce that the new ICS department website is ready and will be online starting from january 2021 alongside many other surprises on new kfupm phase of...
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Agetn-Based Framework for Semantic Annotation
Due to the exponential growth of the Web sources, there is a need to have a fast and automatic ontology-based semantic manipulation of Web sources content. This is important in many domains...
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ICS Students won the 4th and 8th places in the GPC
Among 55 teams from different universities in the Gulf region, the ICS department teams won the 4th and 8th places in the 12th Gulf Programming Contest (GPC). The contest was hosted by Sultan Qaboos University...
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