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Introduction
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In
recent years, the immense growth of numerous industries resulted in the
instant need for young and vigorous IT professionals, who could utilize
their skills internationally to support IT industry exports. The need
for developing essential technologies remains, a new challenge for this
century is knitting technology into the structure of society in
supportive ways. Future scientific leaders and managers must not only
understand how to program and mine for data, but also know when and how
to apply a fastidious result to a fastidious problem.
The Department of
Computer science is home to a vibrant and talented community of
academics, researchers and students.
Recognised for high quality teaching and research, we attract staff and
students from all cities of Pakistan. Driven by our research expertise
and supported by excellent facilities, our undergraduate and
postgraduate courses help students to develop their academic abilities
and the essential skills required for the workplace such as
evidence-based analysis and decision-making, problem-solving and project
management skills. Future employability and career success are supported
by our professional placement schemes.
The Department of Computer Science, GC University Lahore was established
in 1999 as an independent Department in the postgraduate block of the GC
University. At present, the Computer Science Department has four
Computer Labs vis-à-vis postgraduate lab, main lab, general lab and ICS
lab, and these labs comprising of more than 230 computers. The
department offers 4 years BS honor in Computer Science and 2 years MS in
Computer Science degree programs. The courses both at MS and BS degree
programs are selected through its Departmental Academic Committee and
External Academic Committee keeping in view the modern computing needs
both for software industry and academic research. The Department of
Computer Science is having three main research groups which include
Computer Networks & Information Security, Formal Methods & Mathematical
Modeling, and Cybernetics & Quantum Information. These groups are lead
by Ph.D. and M.S. faculty members of the Department.
The computer science department runs and administrates a network unit
which provides optical interconnectivity and internet facilities to the
various departments of the Government College University. At present,
the network unit possesses high end servers under 2 main projects of HEC
namely Pakistan Education and Research Networks (PERN1 and PERN2), and
various IT facilities are provided through these servers. Besides the
regular teaching to BS (CS) and MS (CS) programs the faculty of computer
science is also engaged in teaching of computer related courses both at
intermediate level and B.A/B.S (honor) level offered by the University.
In the forthcoming academic session the Department intends to introduce
more disciplines of information technology at under and postgraduate
degree programs.
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