The Institute of Computing Science is one of three institutes in the Faculty of Computing. Its predecessor, the Institute of Control Engineering, was established in 1970 within the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. In 1988 it changed the name for the Institute of Computer Science, Automatics and Robotics, and finally (in 1990), after the extraction of a new chair, got its present shape. In years 2001-2010 Institute of Computing Science was a division of the Faculty of Computer Science and Management. In years 2010-2020 Institute of Computing Science was part of the Faculty of Computing. Since 2020 it is in Faculty of Computing and Telecommunications.
The staff of the Institute consists of about 180 people, including over 100 persons occupying academic positions.