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

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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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.

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You can read our Athena SWAN submission May 2020 (PDF , 5,203kb) document.

Events

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May

Evolving embodied intelligence and Use of Robotics in the Management and Conservation of the Pemba Channel Tanzania

Presentations from Professor Dr. A.E. Eiben on evolving real robots for engineering and research, and Kennedy Edeye on the use of Robotics in the management and conservation of the Pemba Channel seafloor, Tanzania

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May

Natural Morphological Computation as Foundation of Learning to Learn in Humans, Other Living Organisms, and Intelligent Machines

The emerging contemporary natural philosophy provides a common ground for the integrative view of the natural, the artificial, and the human-social knowledge and practices.

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Postgraduate study

News

University of York EIBF Competition

Posted on Tuesday 4 May 2021

Five finalist teams from CS recently took part in the next round of the Engineers in Business Fellowship cross-Departmental York competition.

Significant number of UK websites do not comply with law on cookie banners

Posted on Tuesday 20 April 2021

Research at the University of York has shown that around one in four websites do not comply with even the basic regulations on gaining permission from users to track and store their data.

MSc Cyber Security recertified by the National Cyber Security Centre

Posted on Thursday 15 April 2021

The course has again been recognised for the high-quality education it offers, helping students make an informed choice about pursuing cyber security degrees.

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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.

Research

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Research Centres

Our research centres span several departments and reflect how we collaborate with researchers from different subject areas.