The donation was later revealed to be from Donald Bren, a wealthy real estate developer and head of the Irvine Company.

[3] U.S. News & World Report ranks Bren School as 29th in the United States for Computer Science as of 2016[update],[6] and 14th in public university programs.

[2] The school possesses 8 undergraduate majors, ranging from lower level hardware to high level social computing, each providing a Bachelor of Science degree (notably, Computer Engineering is not part of ICS, and resides in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering).

narrows its general degree to the field of human–computer interaction, with end parties as wholly human or man and machine.

degree, as software development processes are directly related to human interaction and information systems.

The field relies heavily on high level informatics principles, applying science to the arts.

The graduate program may help model many different problems, and is highly applicable to researchers in other fields such as economics and biology.

Papaefthymiou is a professor of computer science and, as dean, he holds the Ted and Janice Smith Family Foundation endowed chair in ICS.

Noteworthy alumni have graduated from the school, including: Roy Fielding, co-creator of Hypertext Transfer Protocol and the Apache HTTP Server;[10] Patrick Hanratty, CAD pioneer;[11] Paul Mockapetris, creator of Domain Name System and the first Simple Mail Transfer Protocol server;[12] Steven Joe, CEO of D-Link North America.

[13] The school currently has three associated buildings operational, providing over 100,000 square feet (10,000 m2) of space.

All buildings are positioned adjacent to the School of Engineering at the South-East side of UCI's undergraduate campus.

Lab CS193 is used for business related software projects for upper division undergraduates, and holds 24 Windows machines.

[16] The building also has the largest computer lab, ICS364, containing 117 Windows, 12 OS X, 12 Solaris Java boxes, and 11 Linux Network Stations.

Each Network Station includes 4 Dell PC with Linux operation systems, 4 Cisco routers, and 4 Netgear Ethernet Hubs.

It houses offices for many ICS faculty and staff, in addition to the 4 lecture halls and 10 classrooms.

Named in honor of the 19th century female mathematician Ada Lovelace, ABRC aims at not only increases minority researchers, but closing the digital divide.