Graduate Programs

Embodied in a graduate program are the opportunity and responsibility to conduct research leading to new knowledge or the application of existing knowledge in new and novel ways. The following is a representative list of areas in which faculty are actively researching:

• Information Assurance and Computer Security
• Large-Scale Data Management
• Games and Virtual Environments
• Fault Tolerant Systems
• Artificial Intelligence
• Computational Intelligence (Artificial Neural Networks, Neuro-Fuzzy Systems) 
• Evolutionary Computing
• Bioinformatics

Enrollments in the department's graduate programs are large enough to make possible the vital interchange of ideas among students and between students and faculty that is necessary in graduate programs, and sufficiently small to permit close faculty-student relationships. Interdepartmental cooperation is an important factor on the Idaho campus.