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Computer Science
--Vision 2025
The Department of Computer Science
(CS) is consistently ranked among the
top 10% of research CS departments
in the United States and among the
top five research departments at Stony
Brook University. CS faculty are the
founding and foremost players in the
Center of Excellence in Wireless and
Information technology (CEWIT) at
Stony Brook University, which is one of
only two such applied R&D centers in
wireless and information technology in
the United States. The CS department
and CEWIT plan to continue this positive
exponential trajectory of creativity and
innovation excellence–in research,
education, outreach, and community
and economic development.
Computer hardware and software
significantly impact every aspect of daily
living and play a key role in every research
and development discipline. The CS
Department is in the best position for
interdisciplinary collaboration with every
Stony Brook University department
and with Long Island industry, while
acting as the primary force to advance
software, hardware and user interaction
technologies. The CS department
boasts internationally renowned faculty
with a diverse portfolio of innovative
thinking who are poised, in the next
decade, to add to their already significant
contributions to currently available
technologies
and
interdisciplinary
research. The department plans
significant growth in research funding,
faculty size and diversity, and graduate
and undergraduate majors in CS and
Information Systems.

The
research
and
development
strengths of the CS department
and CEWIT lie in computer systems
and networks, cybersecurity, visual
computing, algorithms, concurrency
and
verification,
and
intelligent
computing. Several of these disciplines
are significantly resourceful with very
successful centers: National Security
Institute (NSI), Center for Visual
Computing (CVC), Smart Energy
Technology (SET), and Consortium for
Digital Arts, Culture and Technology
(cDACT), as well as interdisciplinary
clusters in Big Data in Social Science
(BDSS) and in Genomics.
In the next decade, we will solidify our
core strengths and increase strategic
impact on the broader computing and
engineering communities, the NYS
region, the University, the College
of Engineering and Applied Science
(CEAS) and SUNY. Planned research
and development directions closely
follow the Computing Research
Association (CRA) Computing Visions
2025. Stony Brook’s CS Vision 2025
was adapted from the CRA steering
groups of computing leaders from the
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Computer and Information Science
and Engineering (CISE) Directorate
Advisory Committee and the Computing
Community Consortium (CCC) and
associated visions workshops. These
also follow several of the grand
challenges for engineering outlined by
the National Academy of Engineering.
The CS Vision 2025 will inspire the CS
department, CEWIT, the University,
industry, and the community to envision
future trends and opportunities in

CS research and development. This
vision answers the question: Now that
digital technologies are fundamentally
integrated into virtually every aspect of
modern life, what does the new digital
renaissance look like? Where is the CS
field going over the next decade and
by association what will be the impact
on our lives and on practically every
discipline of science, engineering and
medicine? The CS Vision 2025 includes
the following research themes:
• Interacting with the Computers
All Around Us
• Programmable Things and
Matter
• The Smart World
Interacting with the Computers
All Around Us
Computers, computing appliances,
and computing components (termed
together as computers) are ubiquitous.
Embedded sensors and devices are
everywhere, smartphones are in every
hand, daily life includes wearable
computers and gadgets, tablets,
laptops, server and supercomputers,
as well as computer conglomerates
referred to as “flocks of computers”.
This research and development area
includes new direction, innovations,
frontiers and technological challenges
in ubiquitous and pervasive computing,
communications,
and
computerhuman interaction. Creating computer
interaction that assists people with
health, education, work, and family life will
empower individuals and communities
to collaborate and communicate as
they work toward resolving quality
of life challenges. Innovation should
include novel natural interfaces between
humans and computers; computers

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and the environment; among
humans using computers to
build social communities; and
among flocks of computers
without human intervention
that use innovative wireless
mechanisms and intelligent
computing.
Computational
fundamentals in application
areas such as multi-modal/
fusion, connectivity, big data,
and trust should lead to great
benefits in computer research.
Programmable Things
and Matter
Computers have a profound
impact on still objects and
matter that surround us.
Similar to the industrial
revolution, the next decade
of “manufacturing” in the
broad sense will experience
a
mutational
revolution
which includes a substantial
transformation in the way
o