What is Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences?
[[File:UCI Donald Bren Hall.jpg|thumb|265x265px|Donald Bren Hall at UCI]] The '''Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences''' is an academic unit of [[University of California, Irvine]] (UCI). The school of ICS consists of three departments: Computer Science, Informatics, and Statistics. It is also the only [[computer science]] dedicated school within the UC system. University of California, Irvine's School of ICS has three departments: Computer Science, [[Informatics]], and [[Statistics]]. It's the only computer science school in UC system. In 2004, [[Donald Bren]] donated $20 million and in his honor, the school was renamed after his name, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. == History == The Department of ICS was first established as an independent department back in 1968, and in 2002 it was officially declared as a school. During 2004, the school received an anonymous donation of $20 million, and the donor was later revealed to be Donald Bren. Because of his generous act, the school was then renamed after him “Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences”. == Academics == === Undergraduate === Donald Bren offers 8 undergraduate majors- * Biomedical Computing * Business Information Management * Computer Game Science * Computer Science & Engineering * Computer Science * Informatics * Information and Computer Science * Software Engineering ICS school also offers certifies specialization within the major- * [[Artificial intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] * [[Computer system|Computer System]] * Implementation and Analysis of Algorithms * [[Information systems|Information Systems]] * [[Computer network|Networks and Distributed Systems]] * [[Software Systems]] === Graduate === The ICS school offers 11 master's and 7 doctorate level graduate programs. == People == Currently, the Dean of the Donald Bren School is [[Marios Papaefthymiou]]. Notable people graduated from the school include: [[Roy Fielding]], [[Patrick Hanratty]], [[Paul Mockapetris]], [[Steve