This first Institute in India to introduce education in Computer Science in 1963 with an IBM 1620 system in a Computer classroom, the department continues its pursuit of excellence in research and teaching. About 25 members in the faculty work in varied fields including Databases and Data Streaming, Mobile/Wireless, Computer Networks, Computer Architecture and Embedded Computing, Security, Compilers and Programming Languages, Natural Language Processing, Theoretical Computer Science, Discovery, Learning and Cognition, Software Engineering, Algorithms, Graphics, VLSI Design and Testing, Graph Theory, Computational Geometry, Operating Systems, Grid and High Performance Computing, Biometrics and vision, and Internet and web Technologies.

The department maintains the state of the art facilities pertaining to Networks, Servers and Clients. The Hardware lab, used for UG education and research, is well equipped for embedded computing and provides several FPGA based station for programmability. The Sun Grid has 20 workstations (Opteron, 64 bit AMD processors) available to all to explore High Performance Technical Computing.

IIT Kanpur also houses Computer Center which assists the entire campus community round the clock with E-mail, Web, DNS, FTP, Internet access, and faculty members and students with various advanced and special purpose software. The operations are managed by about 6 Computer Engineers and 7 technical staff members.

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