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The Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Birkbeck is one of the long-established computing departments in the UK, having celebrated our 50th anniversary in 2007. We provide a stimulating teaching and research environment for both part-time and full-time students.

The Department brings together research and teaching expertise related to our major research activities in Information Management and Web Technologies, Computational Intelligence and Information Systems.

Our world-class research activity informs our teaching and our interactions with business, public and third-sector organisations. We offer undergraduate, postgraduate and research degrees and skills-based courses.

Research

Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Skills-based Courses

Undergraduate

Postgraduate

Skills-based Courses

To find out more about our taught courses and research come to the next Birkbeck Open Evening or contact the Department directly.

News

27th July 2010 - From Monday 2nd August the department will be located in the Birkbeck main building. The departmental office will be in room 263 on the second floor of the extension building. see New Staff Rooms.

21st July 2010 - Lecturer A/B in Computer Science - closing date 26th August 2010

15th July 2010 - 3 year PhD Studentship in Computer Science - closing date August 31st 2010.

Open Evening - Come to the Open Evening on 21st July. Talk to our staff about which programmes we offer in 2010-11 and which programmes best meet your interest and personal needs.

9th July 2010 - Lecturer in Computer Science - closing date 6th August 2010

18th June 2010 - The Ray Reiter Best Paper Prize of the Twelfth International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2010, Toronto, Canada, May 9-13, 2010) was awarded to the paper entitled "The Combined Approach to Query Answering in DL-Lite" by Roman Kontchakov, Carsten Lutz, David Toman, Frank Wolter and Michael Zakharyaschev