计算机科学（英语：computer science，有时缩写为CS）是系统性研究信息与计算的理论基础以及它们在计算机系统中如何实现与应用的实用技术的学科。它通常被形容为对那些创造、描述以及转换信息的算法处理的系统研究。计算机科学包含很多分支领域；有些强调特定结果的计算，比如计算机图形学；而有些是探讨计算问题的性质，比如计算复杂性理论；还有一些领域专注于怎样实现计算，比如编程语言理论是研究描述计算的方法，而程序设计是应用特定的编程语言解决特定的计算问题，人机交互则是专注于怎样使计算机和计算变得有用、好用，以及随时随地为人所用。

Computer science is the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications. It is the systematic study of the feasibility, structure, expression, and mechanization of the methodical procedures (or algorithms) that underlie the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of, and access to information. An alternate, more succinct definition of computer science is the study of automating algorithmic processes that scale. A computer scientist specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computational systems.