Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

Donald Bren Hall at UCI

The Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences is an academic unit of University of California, Irvine (UCI). The school of ICS consists of three departments: Computer Science, Informatics, and Statistics. It is also the only computer science dedicated school within the UC system.

University of California, Irvine's School of ICS has three departments: Computer Science, Informatics, and Statistics. It's the only computer science school in UC system. In 2004, Donald Bren donated $20 million and in his honor, the school was renamed after his name, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences.

History

The Department of ICS was first established as an independent department back in 1968, and in 2002 it was officially declared as a school.

During 2004, the school received an anonymous donation of $20 million, and the donor was later revealed to be Donald Bren. Because of his generous act, the school was then renamed after him “Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences”.

Academics

Undergraduate

Donald Bren offers 8 undergraduate majors-

Biomedical Computing
Business Information Management
Computer Game Science
Computer Science & Engineering
Computer Science
Informatics
Information and Computer Science
Software Engineering

ICS school also offers certifies specialization within the major-

Artificial Intelligence
Computer System
Implementation and Analysis of Algorithms
Information Systems
Networks and Distributed Systems
Software Systems

Graduate

The ICS school offers 11 master's and 7 doctorate level graduate programs.

People

Currently, the Dean of the Donald Bren School is Marios Papaefthymiou.

Notable people graduated from the school include: Roy Fielding, Patrick Hanratty, Paul Mockapetris, Steven Joe.

Facilities

The school has three buildings associated with it. The three buildings encompass over 100,000 square feet of space. The three buildings are the Information and Computer Science building, Information and Computer Science 2, and Donald Bren Hall.