The PhD degree in Computer Science, offered by the?Louisiana State University?provides training to prepare talented students for research careers in universities or industrial laboratories, as well as work as computing practitioners in industry. There is a strong and continuing demand for computer scientists to work at the frontiers of knowledge in both theoretical and applied specialties. The curriculum provides for graduate study in several areas of computer science, including algorithms and theory, computer architecture, artificial intelligence, software engineering, knowledge discovery and data mining, digital media, database management, operating systems, networking, wireless sensor networks, high performance computing, distributed computing, robotics, scientific computation, visualization, and programming languages and compilers.