The Computer Science Unit at the Addis Ababa University was started as one of the streams within the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science in 1983. Today, it is a fully-fledged department with a B.Sc and a M.Sc. program in computer science. In addition, the Computer Science minor program was launched for Physics, Statistics, and Library Science students. The Department of Computer Science possesses six computer laboratories with a total of 120 computers all connected to Internet through a University wide network, AAUNet. A number of research projects have been conducted in the last few years in the areas of Localization, Telemedicine, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, Computer Networks, and Pervasive Computing, Multimedia Data Management and Computer Assisted Learning.