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On July 1965, a group of faculty, including Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon, and Alan J. Perlis, as well as the faculty from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration ( now called the Tepper School of Business ), staff from the newly formed Computation Center, and key administrators created The Department of Computer Science, one of the first such departments in the nation.

Their mission statement was " to cultivate a course of study leading to the Ph. D. degree in computer science, a program that would exploit the new technology and assist in establishing a discipline of computer science.

" The educational program, formally accepted in October 1965, drew its first graduate students from several existing academic disciplines: mathematics, electrical engineering, psychology, and the interdisciplinary Systems and Communications Sciences program in the Graduate School of Industrial Administration.

The department was housed within the Mellon College of Science.