UNH Computer Science Department

10/01/2026

Amazing work by Professor Momotaz Begum and her lab!

04/10/2026

Today's the final day to donate to the (603) Challenge! Your donation to the CS Department makes it possible for our students to have experiences beyond the classroom like the Cybersecurity Club's recent trip to the Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.

Consider a donation today! https://give.unh.edu/campaigns/75574/donations/new?designation=computerscience

04/08/2026

The (603) Challenge is underway! Support our very own wildCAT, Juno, as she tries to out-compete the dogs of CEPS. The department represented by the winning pet will receive $1,500.
Thank you for your support!

The most competitive part of the (603) Challenge is on! 🐾
Vote for your favorite CEPS pup with a gift to thier department gift!

The winning program fetches an extra $1,500 thanks to the generosity of Julie Palais ’78.

Give Today: https://shorturl.at/3PYkf

03/20/2026

UNH Computer Science alumni breaking blockchain barriers and improving the technology.

From UNH roommates to a $3 billion company. 💡

Caleb Banister '10, Ryan Zarick '09 '11G and Bryan Pellegrino met as students and Interoperability Labs staffers at UNH. Together, they co-founded LayerZero Labs — which solved one of the biggest frustrations in the blockchain world by allowing isolated systems to actually talk to each other.

Think of it like building the first universal translator for a technology that desperately needed one.

Now they've announced Zero, a new blockchain built on that same core idea: that things work better when they work together. The concept is a direct extension of what the IOL has always stood for: that connected, interoperable systems are more powerful than isolated ones.

Where most blockchain systems get bogged down because everything is competing for the same limited space, Zero lets multiple applications run at the same time without getting in each other's way.

"Before, blockchains seemed very tribal — you picked a chain and that was your chain," Zarick says. "We are breaking down those walls and those barriers."

Both Zarick and Pellegrino credit their time at UNH's Interoperability Labs as foundational to how they approach problems — and it shows. The lab's core belief that collaboration beats isolation has turned out to be a pretty good business model, too.

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06/03/2025

Professor Michel Charpentier will be giving a talk next Thursday (6/12): Functional Programming With (or Without) Java Streams: A Case Study. The talk is free, but does require registration. RSVP at the link below:

As a Language, Java has evolved to incorporate gradually more functional programming (FP) features. For instance, the old "switch" statement, inherited from C, is slowly tu

10/29/2024

The department is hiring! https://ceps.unh.edu/computer-science/lecturer-computer-science

04/11/2024

Thanks to Jonathan Brown (CS 'll and '13G) for his generous offer of a gift of $5,000 if 30 other people donate to the Computer Science department. We need your help to make it across the finish line!
https://www.givecampus.com/campaigns/44828/donations/new?designation=computerscience&tc=19051

Join me and make a gift to The (603) Challenge 2024

10/03/2023

Our own Michel Charpentier wrote an article for Java Magazine on the JVMs Virtual Threads, new in Java 21.

See how modern threading differs from concepts such as thread pools and futures.

06/06/2023

We had a great group today to kick off the first-year orientation sessions this year. Welcome to UNH Wildcats!

05/19/2023

Congratulations to the graduate student class of 2023!