'To foster the joy of intellectual accomplishment that derives from rigorous thinking in, and disciplined practice of, computer science'. By the early 1980s the faculty of Eastern Michigan's Mathematics Department had created an undergraduate major in computer science that included courses in subjects such as data structures, formal languages, compiler construction, operating systems, artificial intelligence, database systems, networks, programming languages, and others...

Brief Biography

Li Zhang received his BS and MS degrees in computer science in 1991 and 1998, MA in mathematics in 1997, and Ph. D. in computer science in 2004. Currently he is an associate professor of the department of computer science, Eastern Michigan University. His main teaching interests include robotics, web programming, programming languages, computer organization, operating systems, compiler, algorithms in bioinformatics, data mining, etc...