The School of Computer Science is a School in the Faculty of Science

McGill University Faculty of Science

The Faculty of Science is one of the constituent faculties of McGill University. It is the university's second largest faculty with 16% of McGill students enrolled in one of its various departments....

 at McGill University

McGill University

Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

 located in the McConnell Engineering Building at 3480 University, Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

. The school is the second most funded computer science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

 department in Canada

Canada

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. It currently has 34 faculty

Faculty (university)

A faculty is a division within a university comprising one subject area, or a number of related subject areas...

 members, 60 Ph.D.

Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...

 students and 100 Masters

Master's degree

A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...

 students.

Breakthroughs

The first Internet Search Engine, Archie search engine

Archie search engine

Archie is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing people to find specific files. It is considered to be the first Internet search engine. The original implementation was written in 1990 by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and J...

, was written in 1990 by three McGill computer science students: Alan Emtage

Alan Emtage

Alan Emtage conceived and implemented the first version of Archie, a pre-Web internet search engine for locating material in public FTP archives....

, Bill Heelan, and J. Peter Deutsch.

Notable faculty

• David Avis
  David Avis
  David Michael Avis is a Canadian and British computer scientist known for his contributions to geometric computations. Avis is a professor in computational geometry and applied mathematics in the School of Computer Science, McGill University, in Montreal.Avis received his Ph.D. in 1977 from...
  
   - discrete optimization and computational geometry
• Claude Crépeau
  Claude Crépeau
  Dr. Claude Crépeau is a professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University. Ηe was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1962. He received a Masters degree from the Université de Montréal in 1986, and obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 1990, working in the field of...
  
   - quantum computing and cryptography
• Luc Devroye
  Luc Devroye
  Luc Devroye is a Belgian computer scientist and a James McGill Professor in the School of Computer Science of McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He studied at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and subsequently at Osaka University and in 1976 received his PhD from University of Texas at Austin...
  
   - Probabilistic Analysis of Algorithms
• Gregory Dudek
  Gregory Dudek
  Gregory Dudek is a professor of computer science at McGill University, was the Director of the McGill Center for Intelligent Machines from 2004 to 2007, and is the current Director of the McGill University School of Computer Science. The son of poet Louis Dudek, he was made a Dawson Scholar of...
  
   - robotics
• Patrick Hayden
  Patrick Hayden (scientist)
  Patrick Hayden is a Canadian computer scientist active in the fields of quantum information theory and quantum computing. He is an associate professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University where he holds the Canada research chair in physics of information, and a distinguished...
  
   - quantum information and quantum computing
• Bruce A Reed - Graph Theory
• Godfried Toussaint
  Godfried Toussaint
  Godfried T. Toussaint is a Research Professor of Computer Science at New York University Abu Dhabi in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He is an expert on various aspects of computational geometry, discrete geometry, and their applications: pattern recognition , motion planning, visualization ,...
  
  - computational geometry