The Department of Computer Science and Engineering stands in a position of both great privilege and great responsibility: Great privilege because it lies at the epicenter of the most profoundly transformative discipline of the last half-century and great responsibility because harnessing the transformative nature of computing to best effect requires visionary leadership.

For this reason, the Department spent much of the past year and a half engaged in strategic visioning. What resulted is an exciting new strategic vision for computing and information for both the Department and the entire University. Among other things, our vision calls for the unification of computing-centric research and instructional activities to ensure that the University is able to anticipate and foster global changes in the landscape of this dynamic field.

The links below provide more details about these matters. We invite your comments and your participation.

Faculty of Computing and Information (Portal under development)

A First Step in Strategic Visioning for Computing and Information at Michigan State University (Document approved at CSE faculty meeting on January 9 2004)

Strategic Visioning for Computing and Information Technology (Document approved by CSE faculty on December 6 2004)