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The Department of Computer Science (DCS) at the University of Toronto is an administrative unit within the Faculty of Arts and Science. Established on 1 July 1964, the department is currently one of the highest ranked computer science departments in the world, placing first amongst Canadian universities and tenth worldwide.〔(Academic Ranking of World Universities in Computer Science - 2010 )〕 The department offers undergraduate and postgraduate education. Undergraduates receive a Honours Bachelors in Science upon graduation. The department currently has 68 faculty members. As of February 2011, 800 undergraduate students are enrolled in a University of Toronto subject POSt〔(Artsci.utoronto.ca )〕 sponsored by the department. The current Chair of the Department is (Sven Dickinson ) and the Associate Chair of the Department is (François Pitt ). ==History== The department's predecessor, The Computation Centre, was formed in 1952. Shortly after its formation, it housed FERUT, the first electronic computer in Canada. The Computation Centre was renamed to the Institute for Computer Science in 1962, before being absorbed by the newly created Department of Computer Science in 1964. The new department, with only six faculty members and four graduate students, had Canada's only computer science doctorate program at the time. An undergraduate program was introduced in 1971. The department became an administrative unit in the Faculty of Arts and Science in 1981.〔(History of DCS )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Department of Computer Science (University of Toronto)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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