Department of Computer Science
Our excellence in teaching and research, plus our strong industrial links, make us one of the UK's leading Computer Science departments. Find out more about the department.
Undergraduate study
Equality and Diversity
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The Department of Computer Science holds an Athena SWAN Bronze Award in recognition of our work to promote gender equality. We're committed to make significant progress on many issues of equality, diversity and inclusion, and we look forward to working with our community to achieve the challenges we've set ourselves.
#EqualityatYork @EqualityatYork
You can read our Athena SWAN submission May 2020 (PDF 
, 5,203kb) document.
Events
Postgraduate study
News
The Grand Challenge 2020
Posted on Friday 8 January 2021
Dr Ian Gray from the Department of Computer Science has carried out The Grand Challenge with help from students, investigating the largest problems facing computer science today.
Work by Paul Cairns and David Zendle featured in the BBC's Science Focus Magazine.
Posted on Thursday 17 December 2020
The researchers found a worrying link between problem gambling and video game loot boxes.
Detecting and tracking bacteria with quantum light
Posted on Monday 30 November 2020
Gae Spedalieri has recently had her paper "Detecting and tracking bacteria with quantum light" published in the American Physical Society's "Physical Review Research" journal.
Green Impact
The Department received a Gold Green Impact award in both 2019 and 2020. Green Impact is a United Nations award-winning programme designed to support environmentally and socially sustainable practice in organisations, and is run by the National Union of Students.
