Penn Computer And Information Science

Welcome to Computer and Information Science (CIS) at Penn! Penn Engineering is the birthplace of the modern computer. It was here that ENIAC, the world’s first electronic, large-scale, general-purpose digital computer, was developed in 1946. For over 70 years, the field of computer science at Penn has been marked by exciting innovations. While the field has always had strong connections with many other disciplines such as mathematics, electrical engineering, biology, economics, linguistics and philosophy among others, it appears that every other academic discipline is starting to build a relationship to computer science. Our faculty have research activities across many areas of computer science, including intelligent systems, information systems, hardware and software systems, networks and theory.