History of Khoury College
The nation’s first computer science college, established in 1982, Khoury College has grown in size, diversity, degree programs, and research excellence.
In the early 1980s, Northeastern University created one of the nation’s first colleges dedicated to the field of computer science (CS). Khoury College of Computer Sciences marked its 40th anniversary in 2023 and through those years has remained a national leader in CS education and research — continuing to break new ground to solve real-world problems.
Khoury College timeline
Computer courses were specifically designed for non-majors.
The BS in Computer Science was established in the mathematics department of the College of Arts & Sciences.
The former Botolph Building, the oldest structure on Northeastern’s campus, was refurbished and reopened as the David and Margaret Fitzgerald Cullinane Hall. The building was named for the parents of alumnus and trustee John Cullinane, an early pioneer in the database industry who gave generously to support the renovations.
Alan Selman (April 2, 1941 – January 22, 2021) was a mathematician and theoretical computer scientist known for his research on structural complexity theory.
Dr. Brown was the College’s first female dean. Throughout her career, she commited herself to making the concepts of programming accessible and interesting to a broad audience of learners, including more women and people who might not initially have seen themselves in a technical role.
The new building won the Harleston Parker Medal from the Boston Society of Architects for the Boston area’s best new building — beating out MIT’s Stata Center for Computer Science.
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The campus welcomed its first cohort of students for the Align master’s program and offered 15 graduate degree programs.
Professor, Dean of Inclusive Computing, Executive Director Center for Inclusive Computing (view bio, view 40 for 40 profile)
Professor of the Practice, Director of Computing Programs, Seattle Campus (view bio)
The Network Science Institute launched at our 177 Huntington Avenue location, bringing together an interdisciplinary team of renowned scholars from across the university to discover and inspire new ways to measure, model, and predict meaningful interactions in social, physical, biological, and technological systems.
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The university expanded its global network, filling a demand for computer scientists in the burgeoning high-tech industry of Canada’s west coast.
Teaching Professor, Director of Computing Programs, Vancouver Campus (view bio)
The Center, funded by a grant from Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation company created by tech leader Melinda Gates, supports universities across the US in implementing evidence-based practices to bring more women into computing — meeting a significant economic need while improving social equity and inclusion.
Associate Professor, Director of the BS in Cybersecurity Program (view bio)
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The campus is the home of the Roux Institute, a graduate school and research center shaping tech talent and innovation on Maine’s seacoast.
Teaching Professor, Assistant Director Computing Programs – Seattle (view bio)
Professor, Dean of Inclusive Computing, Executive Director Center for Inclusive Computing (view bio, view 40 for 40 profile)
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Visiting Professor, Director of Khoury Programs, San Francisco Bay Area Campuses (view bio)
Teaching Professor, Director of Computing Programs, Arlington (view bio)
Teaching Professor, Director of Khoury Programs, Roux Institute (view bio)
In the United States, the national average of women in BS/BA computer science programs is 19.5%, and the national average of BIPOC in those programs is 10%.
Dean Elizabeth Mynatt in collaboration with the Khoury community recognized the vital contributions computer scientists make to society — and the moral responsibility the work carries — with a seven-point, first-of-its-kind Oath for Computing that Mynatt says “Now more than ever… is essential to guide the work we do on behalf of the larger society we serve.”
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Interdisciplinary professor Yun Raymond Fu, affiliated with Khoury College and the College of Engineering, received the 2024 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award for innovative and impactful contributions to representation learning, computer vision, and face gesture recognition.
As part of an initiative called SPHERE, Northeastern University received a $3.4 million National Science Foundation grant for an Internet of Things (IoT) lab to enable researchers to light on the vulnerabilities and shortcomings of smart technologies such as televisions, speakers, security cameras, and appliances.
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Backed by a $9 million NSF grant, Northeastern University will lead NDIF, an open scientific collaboration that will enable researchers to delve into the mysteries of large-scale AI systems and address a growing gulf between the efficacy of machine learning and scientists’ ability to explain it.