Collection Profile: Computer Science

Purpose of Collection:

The Computer Science collection at MacOdrum Library supports the research activities of faculty, students and staff and the instructional requirements of undergraduate and graduate programs. Computer Science is an interdisciplinary area of studies within the Faculty of Science. As such, the collection also provides support for, and draws from teaching and research in a wide variety of related fields such as Mathematics & Statistics, Computer Systems Engineering, Human Computer Interactions, and Physics.

For concrete examples of our collections in action, please visit our Computer Science or Computer Systems Engineering subject guides.

Academic Departments & Programs Supported:

Undergraduate programs in Computer Science, Computer Systems Engineering and Systems and Computer Engineering
Graduate programs in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Interdisciplinary/Collaborative/Specialized Programs
- A Collaborative Specialization in Data Science is also available
- Graduate electrical and computer engineering programs are offered jointly by the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering and the Department of Electronics at Carleton, in conjunction with the University of Ottawa via the Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Biomedical Engineering (OCIBME). This grants our students access to the largest selection of courses in electrical, systems, computer, and software engineering at any Canadian University.

Themes/Subject Coverage

Select material of an acceptable academic/scholarly or professional standard in the following subject fields:

Algorithmics, Distributed and Computational Biology, Distributed and Mobile Agent Computing,
Algorithms
Algorithms, Computational Geometry, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Data Structures,
Algorithms, Computational Geometry, Data Structures, GIS, and Medical Computing
Algorithms, Data Structures, Computational Geometry, Graph Theory
Algorithms, Geometry, Graphs
Animation Systems, Interactive 3D Games, Object-Oriented Systems, Parsers, and Computer Graphics
Artificial Intelligence, Swarm Intelligence, Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming, Neural Networks, Recommender Systems, Search Engines
Artificial intelligence; cognitive modeling; imagination; creativity; aesthetics; mental imagery; brain modeling
Automated Reasoning, Formal Methods in Software Engineering, Programming Languages, and Software Engineering
Computer Applications to Music., Object-Oriented Programming, Software Engineering
Computer Graphics, Computer Games
Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Computer Games
Computer Science education, cryptology, security and in a previous life wood.
Computer Security, Authentication
Computer Security, Operating Systems, Intrusion Detection, Complex Adaptive Systems, Artificial Life
Computing, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Robotics and Machine Vision, and Robotics
Cryptographic and Network Security
Data Management, Data Science, Data Management for Business Intelligence, Knowledge Representation in AI, Computational Logic, Machine Learning, Intelligent Information Systems
Data Science, high performance computing, computational biochemistry, online analytical processing
Database Systems, Intelligent Information Systems, Web Technologies
Design, Analysis and Implementation of Algorithms for Problems arising in Computational Geometry, Graph Theory, Discrete Mathematics, and Data Science.
Distributed Computing, GIS, Geographic Information Systems, Medical Computing, Parallel
Genetic Programming, Artificial Life), Object-Oriented Systems, Software Patterns, Object-Oriented
Human Computer Interaction
Human Computer Interaction, Computer Security, Computer Games, Agile Software Development
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Bioinformatics, Data Analysis
Mobile Computing, Peer-to-Peer Computing, Evolutionary Computation (Genetic Algorithms)
Networks (Ad Hoc, Communication, Sensor, Social, Wireless).
Programming Languages and Open Source Software.
Robotics, Artificial Life, Computational Geometry
Software Quality Engineering, Big Data Analytics, Contextualized Natural Language Understanding
Stochastic Learning, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
Usable Security, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Security
Wireless Communications and Networking

Selection Guidelines

Chronological

Preference to newly published works.

Geographical

None.

Language

English is the primary language of the collection. Works published in other languages are purchased very selectively at the specific request of faculty.

Types of material

Collected (primarily online) monographs, journals, government documents, conference proceedings. Collected selectively dissertations, textbooks and translations, audiovisual material, games, immersive media.