22-406: Blackhall Road is a road running between Keble Road to the north and Museum Road to the south in central Oxford , England , dating from the late 19th century. It is named after Black Hall, dating from at least 1519, fronting onto St Giles' , and now part of St John's College . Houses in the road were leased by St John's College between 1865–75. Keble College occupies the entire east side of
44-644: A modular course for industry professionals, leading to either the MSc in Software Engineering (approx 240 students at present) or the M.Sc. in Software and Systems Security (approx 45 students at present). The department is home to around 145 academic and research staff. The department's doctoral programme has over 140 research students (studying for a D.Phil. – the Oxford term for a PhD ) working across
66-609: A wide range of subjects in computer science and software engineering. After fifty years within the department, the Numerical Analysis group moved in 2009 to be part of the university's Mathematical Institute . Today the department's research is classified into ten broad themes: As of 2015 the department employed 36 Professors, including: Starting in 1952, mathematician Charles Coulson sought funding for Oxford to own its own computer. At this time university members had to hire computer time from elsewhere. In 1956
88-489: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This England road or road transport-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford The Department of Computer Science is the computer science department of the University of Oxford , England, which is part of the university's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division . It
110-682: Is a row of Victorian terrace houses owned by the University of Oxford . The houses nearest Parks Road (numbers 6–11) were converted into the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (OUCL), now the Department of Computer Science , with its newer Wolfson Building added behind in 1993, and the Oxford e-Science Building in 2006 (both in Parks Road). Oxford University's 1960s Denys Wilkinson Building ( Particle physics , John Adams Institute and astrophysics )
132-662: Is in Keble Road, on the corner with Banbury Road. The Department of Theoretical Physics is at 1 Keble Road. The Oxford e-Research Centre ( OeRC ) is at 7 Keble Road. The area to the north of Keble Road, bounded by Banbury Road and Parks Road, is known as the Keble Road Triangle and forms part of Oxford University 's Science Area , with a number of its science department buildings located here. A blue plaque commemorating James Legge (1815–1897), Sinologist and translator, first Professor of Chinese at Oxford,
154-587: Is not sufficient, and the department has additional space within the Thom Building and the Robert Hooke building. As of 2014, the department is hoping to obtain funding for a new building large enough to bring together all its activities. From 2003 to 2014, the department was led by Bill Roscoe , who oversaw the 2011 renaming from the Oxford University Computing Laboratory to the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford . The current head
176-493: Is the Oxford University Museum of Natural History where a number of fossilized dinosaur skeletons can be seen. There was a hatching-dinosaur-egg addition on the wall for a while but it has disappeared. 51°45′31″N 1°15′31″W / 51.7585°N 1.2585°W / 51.7585; -1.2585 Keble Road Keble Road is a short road running east–west in central Oxford , England . To
198-506: The University Grants Committee decided to fund the purchase of a Ferranti Mercury and the Oxford University Computing Laboratory was born (shortened as OUCL or Comlab ). As well as facilitating research elsewhere in the university, the new department had its own academic function, performing research in numerical analysis, and lecturing for mathematics and engineering students. The first director, Leslie Fox ,
220-706: The blue dinosaur, perhaps intended to resemble an alligator, is a riposte "I DID, AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO ME" . It is thought that the white graffiti, the earlier of the two, was the work of delegates at the Drapers' Conference at Keble in the early 1970s and was a reply to the students of Keble's neighbour St John's College who had formed the St John’s Destroy Keble Society. An alternative version suggests that students from Wadham and Somerville Colleges were responsible. Close by in Parks Road
242-679: The choice between a 3-year BA or a 4-year 'undergraduate masters'. Sixty students began one of the three undergraduate courses in October 2013. There are two full-time taught postgraduate courses: the MSc in Computer Science (approx 50 students total) and the MSc in Mathematics and the Foundations of Computer Science (MFoCS) (approx 15 students total). The department also offers the part-time Software Engineering Programme ,
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#1732798221017264-547: The laboratory's research groups moved into 8–11 Keble Road , opposite Keble College . However the laboratory soon outgrew this space, and occupied space in 2 South Parks Road, until in 1993 the Wolfson Building opened behind the Victorian 8–11 Keble Road houses. The neighbouring houses at 5–7 Keble Road and a new "e-Science building" behind these provided additional space upon opening in 2007. However this space
286-405: The road, including the O'Reilly Theatre . In the 1970s, the architects Ahrends, Burton and Koralek designed yellow brick buildings on the southern part of Blackhall Road. These include the "Elephant House" at the southern end, nicknamed due to its resemblance to the elephant house at London Zoo . At the southern end on the west side are houses owned by St John's College . At the northern end to
308-512: The title of both courses for students starting their studies in 2000. Between 1987 and 2006 students started studies on a four-year (undergraduate) MEng in Engineering and Computing Science (now discontinued). In October 2012 the first students of the 'Computer Science and Philosophy' started. Today students on all three undergraduate courses - 'Computer Science', 'Maths & Computer Science' and 'Computer Science & Philosophy' - have
330-561: The west is the Department of Statistics of the University of Oxford , until 2013 the Mathematical Institute . The historian J.K. Fotheringham (1874–1936), an expert on ancient astronomy and chronology, and Fellow of Magdalen College , lived at 6 Blackhall Road. The classical historian Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge lived at 4 Blackhall Road. The poet and art critic Hasan Shahid Suhrawardy (1890–1965), an associate of
352-528: The west is the southern end of the Banbury Road with St Giles' Church opposite. To the east is Parks Road with the University Parks opposite. Blackhall Road leads off the road to the south near the western end. On the south side for much of its length is the Victorian brick Keble College , and in particular, its large chapel on the corner with Parks Road. Opposite this to the north
374-442: The world (with the University of Cambridge placing 6th) for Computer Science. From its foundation the department taught undergraduates reading for mathematics and engineering degrees, but in 1985 the department's first undergraduate course was established, in 'Mathematics and Computation', followed in 1994 by the 'Computation' course. Initially these two courses had a common first year. 'Computer Science' replaced 'Computation' in
396-417: The writer D.H. Lawrence , also lived in the road when they met in 1915. The road includes one of the longest lasting and still extant pieces of outdoor graffiti in Oxford. On a brick wall forming part of Keble College , opposite the Department of Statistics building, are two large dinosaurs in white and blue paint. The caption "REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DINOSAUR!" is next to the white dinosaur. By
418-588: Was appointed in 1957 and the following year the department moved into its first home, 9 South Parks Road . In 1963 the department moved to 19 Parks Road . The Computing Services (From 2012 part of IT Services ) was administratively split from the academic department in 1969, although complete independence was only gained in 1978. Complementing the Numerical Analysis Group (NAG), the Programming Research Group (PRG)
440-584: Was founded in 1957 as the Computing Laboratory . By 2014 the staff count was 52 members of academic staff and over 80 research staff. The 2019, 2020 and 2021 Times World University Subject Rankings places Oxford University 1st in the world for Computer Science. Oxford University is also the top university for computer science in the UK and Europe according to Business Insider . The 2020 QS University Subject Rankings places The University of Oxford 5th in
462-510: Was set up in 1966 at 45 Banbury Road under the leadership of Christopher Strachey with the aim "to bring some coherence into the present ad hoc nature of programming and software". After Strachey's untimely death in 1975, Tony Hoare took over leadership of the PRG in 1977 until his retirement in 1999 and introduced a computer science undergraduate degree programme at Oxford. The NAG and PRG groups operated mostly separately until 1984, when both of
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#1732798221017484-565: Was unveiled at 3 Keble Road, on 16 May 2018. William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), Warden of New College and famed for " Spoonerisms ", lived at 11 Keble Road, now part of the Department of Computer Science at Oxford, and an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque commemorating him was unveiled on 19 October 2024. Sub-departments of the Department of Physics of the University of Oxford , located on Keble Road: 51°45′34″N 1°15′32″W / 51.7594°N 1.2588°W / 51.7594; -1.2588 This Oxfordshire location article
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