The Department of Computing Science has a long-standing reputation in Intelligent Systems. Much of our research looks at the problems of managing knowledge and information in the context of emerging computational infrastructures such as next-generation Web systems and cloud computing, and in the automatic generation of natural language tailored for the reader. A key problem is helping humans make decisions and take actions when faced with a vast amount of available data and information.

A wide variety of career opportunities are available to Computing Scientists. Recent postgraduates from the Department have taken up posts in the telecommunications, biotechnology, computer gaming, and research sectors, both in the UK and internationally.