Major Branches of Computer Science

Computer Science is an excepionally broad discipline that comprises a number of smaller sub-areas which deal with its different aspects. Following are some of the its most well-known branches:

• • Computer Hardware


• - Computer Architecture
• - Robotics
• - Embedded Systems
• - Microprogramming
• - Computer Networks
• - Memory Systems
• - Performance Analysis


• • Software Systems


• - Programming Languages and Compilers
• - Operating Systems
• - Software Engineering
• - Database Administration
• - Data Warehousing and Data Mining
• - Game Development



• - Concurrent, Parallel, and Distributed Systems
• - Communications and Security
• - Information Systems
• - Networking
• - Web Science
• - Computer Graphics
• - Data Structures
• - Artificial Intelligence
• - User Interface Engineering
• - Human-Computer Interaction
• - Natural Language Processing
• - Image Processing
• - Computer Aided Engineering





• • Scientific Computing


• - Bioinformatics
• - Medical Informatics
• - Simulation and Modeling
• - Computational Physics
• - Computational Chemistry
• - Numerical Analysis


• • Computer Theory


• - Theory of Computation
• - Discrete Structures
• - Algorithm Analysis
• - Probability and Statistics
• - Cryptography