Dynamic and engaging

Computer Science at Earlham and in the larger world is a dynamic and
engaging..., working closely with Mathematics and Physics, 
with close ties to Linguistics and Logic as well as Biology and Chemistry.

At Earlham, students have opportunities to do "real world" work in many areas
across the breadth of the discipline.  Organized groups of students are
responsible for nearly all of the support of the Department's computing
infrastructure and our research groups do work in Computational Linguistics
and Computational Science in general.

Earlham's liberal arts approach is a winner  
  (Again, "winner"  seems fake to me.  How about something like:
Earlham's Liberal Arts approach stands out  
(don't like that much better))

Earlham students participate in the national and international Computer Science
communities.  A team of four students won first place in the Scientific
Computing Programming Competition at the Supercomputing "SC07" Conference in
Reno.  Earlham was the only Liberal Arts school represented.  Another group won
first place for their poster at SC??.  Our research groups regularly present
papers at undergraduate research conferences and a paper co-authored by one
group was the only paper with undergraduate authors at the 2009 Mathematics of
Language (MoL11) conference in Bielefeld, Germany.


Theory, abstraction and design

....Our work is heavily influenced ...the curriculum.  With this background,
our graduates are ready to make informed decisions....


Equipped for practice
(Do we want to update the software list?)

Real world opportunities

[for "major or non-major" substitute "student"]
(do we want to modify the description of HIP)
[add
-  Design and develop content and web-based applications for the Department's
   web. 
]
[ change last bullet
-  Design and develop interfaces between web-based applications and back-end
   databases, including tools used by the entire College community for
   registration and advising.
(how to make this past tense with out making it past perfect)
]

Faculty quote
"...our intent is to graduate accomplished
  practitioners with uncommonly solid theoretical backgrounds for careers in
  the industry and well-prepared scholars with uncommonly extensive practical
  experience for those who will continue in academia. "
(From 2008 Computer Science Five-Year Department Review)


Further study and high-level careers

...  including Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Indiana, Bowling Green, New York,
Texas A&M, Washington and Wright State Universities and the Universities of
Central Florida, California San Diego, California Santa Cruz, Dayton, Delaware,
Houston, Maryland, North Carolina, Oregon, Pittsburgh and Toronto .  

(We might try to enumerate some of the
areas they have worked in, including 
Bioinformatics, Computer Vision, parallel and distributed computing, ..., AI
in gaming and simulation ... Business Administration, Theater, Computational
Finance. )


Graduates enter the workforce
(This seems like it should be a continuation of the previous para.
If not, we need to eliminate the redundancies.)

... work in software design and development, network and database
administration, game development, data mining, web and database application
development, business administration.  
Major technology companies ...  (well, maybe not all major technology)
Amazon.com, (Domani Studios, Gaia Industries, Imagery Media --- all Micah)
Array BioPharma, Microsoft, Achieve Internet, Vivisimo, Ontko, Summersault, TNS
Media Intelligence, University of Arkansas, (where are Skylar, Hassan, Jeff K.)