A proposed academic program in the computer sciences

Considerable work in the Computer Science Center at the University of Maryland has been devoted to the creation of an academic program in the computer sciences. Those involved have been W. C. Rheinboldt, J. P. Menard, R. H. Austing, J. M. Ortega, G. E. Lindamood and the author. Numerous other people, both at Maryland and elsewhere, have contributed to this work, but the frequent assistance of H. E. Tompkins and A. B. Marcovitz of the Electrical Engineering Department has been especially helpful. The program is now under consideration for adoption at the University and will hopefully be underway by the Fall of 1965. This program would begin with the offering of a number of new courses and expand toward the establishment of a master of science degree, a baccalaureate degree and then a doctoral program as rapidly as staff and other necessary conditions could be developed. In addition to degree programs in the computer sciences, the development of supporting courses for other programs is very important and this program has been designed to satisfy much of this need.