Jim Fix, jimfix@reed.edu
Professor of Computer Science
Department of Mathematics, Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, OR 97202

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About Computer Science at Reed College

The Mathematics Department at Reed College offers a major in computer science (officially launched in 2017) and an interdisciplinary major in mathematics-computer science. These majors are designed for students interested in pursuing computer science with a firm foundation in mathematics. The emphasis in mathematics helps students make an impact in advancing the field, for example, say, in data science and machine learning. Students at Reed also pursue "ad hoc" interdisciplinary programs in CS-Physics, CS-Biology, CS-Philosophy, and CS-Art, or study computer science as their allied field for their majors in Linguistics and in Psychology.

Here are some useful links related to these academic programs:

Computer Science Faculty

  • Jim Fix
    theory of parallel and distributed algorithms

  • Adam Groce
    cryptography, security and privacy, theory of computation

  • Eitan Frachtenburg (visitor, 2017-2019)
    high-performance sytems

  • Dylan McNamee (visitor, 2017-2018)
    operating sytems

  • Kelly Shaw
    computer architecture, high performance computing

Affiliated Faculty

Several Reed faculty teach courses and mentor research projects on computational aspects of their fields and in areas that have close affinity with the theory of computation: