On March 15, 2007, the Computer Science Department hosted the Seventh Annual Family History Technology Conference at BYU.  Held on campus in the Harmon Building, the Conference brought together more than 100 family history enthusiasts, computer scientists, and engineers from around the world to discuss family history needs and present emerging technologies aimed at advancing the work. Read More

On Tuesday, March 6, Dr. William Barrett shared "precious precepts of truth" from the Book of Mormon at BYU's weekly campus devotional.  Dr. Barrett and his wife were recently called to preside over the Wisconsin, Milwaukee Mission beginning in July 2007. 
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Neha Rungta, a PhD student in Computer Science from Mumbai, India, recently published in FMCAD, a top-tier venue for formal methods bringing together top researchers in academia and industry from all over the world. 

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Three undergraduate students in Computer Science working with Dr. Mike Jones on their capstone project turned the great outdoors into their classroom in an effort to learn more about computer-generated landscapes. Read More

Several years ago, after returning from his LDS mission to Houston, Texas, David Cline was sitting in his upper-level electrical engineering seminar class, listening to an expert in the field talk about his life’s work and realizing with ever-increasing clarity that this was NOT what he wanted to do with the rest of his life.  Cline made the decision to switch majors to computer science and now, looking back as he prepares to complete his doctoral dissertation, muses, “it hasn’t been too bad of a choice.”

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The Bioinformatics Emphasis, part of the Computer Science program at BYU, offers students the unique chance to synthesize their interests, giving them entrance into a fascinating and dynamic new field. Read More

Dr. David W. Embley, a 2006 recipient of the Karl G. Maeser Award in Research and Creative Arts, has focused his research on information extraction from webpages. His research makes it possible for users to have their computers answer specific questions, rather than just typing in a search and receiving lists of webpage references. This new technology has the potential to dramatically alter the ways in which humans interact with machines in everything from surfing the web to researching family history. Read More

Natural language refers to the kinds of languages that people speak every day. Ringger’s work is to teach computers to understand these natural languages—English, French, Russian, German, and Japanese, etc.,—as easily as they understand C++, Java, Python, and PHP. Computers could then utilize the information housed in natural language documents to do more than just print. Potentially, this technology would automate how documents are used, cracking open the information inside and giving people more power to manage it. The future, for Ringger, includes the ability for a computer to look at a document written in Japanese, translate it into English, and then give the human user the chance to both read the document in English and receive the most pertinent information extracted out of the document by the computer. Read More

In a discipline that many see as focusing on machines rather than people, BYU Computer Science faculty heal the rifts and ease the contention between science and religion.  For these faculty, the link between their discipline and their testimonies lies in their desire to learn, grow, and serve the Lord. Read More

Dr. Dan Olsen, professor in the Computer Science Department and head of the Interactive Computing Everywhere (ICE) lab, shown right, has been named as an ACM Fellow in recognition of his tremendous accomplishments in computing and information technology and outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community. Read More