U.S. News and World Report has ranked the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing as a top 20 school in programming language. The School’s Department of Information and Library Science was ranked 8 the last time information and library science programs were ranked (2013). These rankings continues a recent trend of IU schools appearing in U.S. News and World Report rankings, which have also selected IU programs in business, law, education, medicine and the sciences as among the nation’s elite by U.S. News and World Report.
Programming languages are central to expressing and understanding all kinds of computer programs. IU joins field standards Carnegie Mellon and MIT on the list of schools best equipped to help students understand and improve current and future programming languages.
“Computer Science at Indiana University has a long tradition of excellence in the area of Programming Languages and it is wonderful to be recognized by our community in this way. Thanks to the continuing support of the School of Informatics and Computing, we have an exceptional group of faculty in this area and expect the profile of our program to continue on an upward trajectory for some time to come,” said Professor of Computer Science Andrew Lumsdaine.
IU regularly offers courses on the principles of programming languages. A programming languages group meets weekly in the School and is open to everyone interested in discussing programming languages research underway at IU.
SoIC’s programming languages group includes 10 faculty whose specialties cover a wide spectrum of topics related to the semantic and logic foundations of programming, languages design, type theory, compilers, program analysis and optimization, program specification and construction, and emerging models of computation.