Our Research Vision

Dr. Blaine Holmlund, the founding Head of the Department, wrote in 1968 that computer science is

"not only the design of computing devices, nor is it the art of numerical computation... [It] is the art of collecting, transmitting, storing, manipulating and representing information... All forms of information - numeric, algebraic, verbal, visual, graphic are of interest to computational science."

Whereas many departments were founded at that time to meet the immediate computing needs of universities and local communities, our Department was founded with a broad research vision. Senior members of this department, including Professor Emeritus Tremblay, wrote some of the first computer science textbooks, some of which are still used world wide.

The Department is home to several research labs. Visit the web pages for these research groups, and also the web pages of individual faculty, to see some the research going on in our department.  

The Department of Computer Science has an vibrant graduate program which is one of the largest in the university. We offer M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in all areas of computer science.  Our faculty have research expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Computer Networks, Concurrency, Distributed Systems, Educational Technology, Health Informatics, Human-Computer Interaction, Image Processing, Software Engineering, Performance Evaluation, Programming Languages, Robotics, Scientific Computing, Sensor Networks, Social Computing, Theory of Computation, Ubiquitous Computing and Usability.

The University of Saskatchewan is also home to the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron which is the only facility of its kind in Canada.  Some faculty members research programs have connections to work being done at the CLS.