Computing has dramatically influenced progress in science, engineering, business, and many other avenues of human endeavor. In modern times, nearly everyone needs to use computers, and many will want to study computing in some form. Computing will continue to present challenging career opportunities, and those who work in computing will have a crucial role in shaping the future of society.

In a general way, we can define computing to mean any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computers. Thus, computing includes: designing and building hardware and software systems for any of a wide range of purposes; processing, structuring and managing various kinds of information; doing scientific studies using computers; making computer systems behave intelligently; creating and using communications and entertainment media; finding and gathering information relevant to any particular purpose, and so on. The list is virtually endless, and the possibilities are vast. Computing also has other meanings that are more specific, based on the context in which the term is used. For example, an information systems specialist will view computing somewhat differently from a software engineer. Regardless of the context, doing computing well can be complicated and difficult. Because society needs people to do computing well, we must think of computing not only as a profession but also as a discipline.

A student typically earns a bachelor’s degree in one of the computing disciplines to prepare for entry into the computing profession. Because computing provides such a wide range of choices, it is impossible for anyone to become proficient at all of them. Hence, an individual who wishes to become a computing professional requires some focus for his or her professional life. There are currently three major kinds of undergraduate degree academic programs in computing at Union University in Belgrade, and each one provides a different focus and perspective on the discipline of computing:

• Computer Science (undergraduate academic studies)

• Computer Networks and Communications (undergraduate academic studies)

• Information Technology (undergraduate applied studies)

In addition, there are two graduate programs:

• Intelligent Systems (graduate studies)

• Computer Communications (graduate studies)

and two doctoral programs:

• Algorithms, Combinatorics, Optimization (doctoral studies)

• Signal Processing in Telecommunications (doctoral studies)

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