Cornell's Department of Computer Science boasts a young, productive faculty, an abundance of outstanding students, and success in attracting sponsored research. We have complemented our strength in the essential core areas (artificial intelligence, programming languages, scientific computing, systems, and theory) with new commitments to databases, graphics, machine learning, and natural language processing. Cornell CS is widely known for its collegiality and its ability to move rapidly into new interdisciplinary fields such as information science and computational biology. The department's challenge is to be simultaneously strong in the core areas of computer science while being a major force in emerging and interdisciplinary areas.