Welcome to the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department

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Welcome tothe Electrical Engineering
andComputer Science Department

• Randy H. Katz, Chair
• Andy R. Neureuther, Assoc. Chair
• EECS Department
• University of California, Berkeley
• Berkeley, CA 94720-1770

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Presentation Outline

• Academic Reputation
• Department Culture
• Facilities and Research Funding
• Faculty Growth
• Student Population
• Summary Conclusions

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EECS Academic Reputation
Among top combined EECS Departments NRC
Rankings CS ranked 3, EE ranked 4 (2
hundredths below 3 Illinois) Berkeley
Engineering ranked 2 overall Berkeley ranked 1
overall (34 of 35 departments in top 10) U S
News World Report (1997) Comp Eng ranked 2
(behind MIT, ahead of CMU, Stanford) EE ranked
4 (behind MIT, Stanford, Illinois, ahead of
Michigan) Engineering School ranked 3 (behind
MIT, Stanford) U S News World Report
(1996) CS ranked 1 (tied with MIT, Stanford),
UG program ranked 3 Computer Engineering ranked
3 EE ranked 4 Berkeley UG Engineering program
ranked 2
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Business Weeks World Leading Computer Science
Labs

• 1978
• ATT Bell Labs
• MIT LCS
• Stanford
• Xerox PARC
• CMU
• IBM Research
• Berkeley
• Illinois
• Cornell
• SRI

• 1998
• Stanford
• MIT LCS
• Berkeley
• CMU
• Lucent Bell Labs
• IBM Research
• ATT Labs
• University of Washington
• MIT Media Lab
• Xerox PARC

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Departmental Culture

• Computing joins mathematics and physics as core
  of the sciences and engineering
• Support for large-scale interdisciplinary
  experimental research projects
• Architecture RISC, RAID, NOW, IRAM, CNS-1,
  BRASS,
• Parallel Systems Multipole, ScaLAPACK, Spilt-C,
  Titanium
• Berkeley Digital Library Project Environmental
  Data
• InfoPad Portable Multimedia Terminal for
  Classroom Use
• PATH Intelligent Highway Project, FAA Center of
  Excellence
• Computation and algorithmic methods in EE
• Circuit Simulation, Process Simulation, Optical
  Lithography
• CAD Synthesis/Optimization, Control Systems
• Increasing collaboration with other departments
  in Engineering and elsewhere on campus

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Departmental Facilities

• Common research infrastructure is critical to
  successful collaboration
• TITAN Computing Infrastructure
• Ultrasparc NOW widely used for research in the
  Department
• Large-scale tertiary storage systems
• Digital Library Project on-line environmental
  images
• Tertiary Disk Project MultiTByte archive of
  SFMOMA collections
• 2400 IP nodes, 35 subnetworks, 30 servers
• 2.4 million/year budget
• Buildings are large-scale experimental networking
  testbeds
• 100BaseT to desktop, fiber optic backbone
• Wireless LAN throughout building
• Recent upgrade to Cory Hall
• Instruction 400 workstations/PCs, 12 servers

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Research Funding (1996-97)
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1
List price equipment and cash
25
6
38
10
16
Other DoD Air Force, Army, Office of Naval
Research (ONR), etc. Other Federal DOE, NASA,
National Institutes of Health (NIH), etc.
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Student and Faculty Statistics

• Faculty
• EE 41.75 FTE
• CS 33 FTE
• Architecture, CAD, Signal Processing, Circuits
  faculty overlap
• 78.75 authorized FTE
• Undergraduate Program
• 893.5 (515 in CS, 378.5 in EE) in B.S. program
• 212 in B.A. program
• 1105.5 total (66 CS, 34 EE)
• Graduate Program
• 300 EE
• 200 CS

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College of Engineering Growth

• Demand for CS skills far exceeds supply in
  California
• University administration and Governor Wilson
  targets student and faculty growth in CS and
  engineering
• Thrust at Berkeley is Bioengineering, Computer
  Science, and Engineering Science (Computational
  Engineering) across the College
• EECS to accept 140 additional students in return
  for 6-8 new FTE over next 4 years
• 4 faculty searches this year (includes 2 growth
  positions)
• 3 faculty searches requested for next year (to
  81.75 FTE)

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NSF-Industry-University Leverage
SimMillennium
Intel 6M IBM 400K Bay Networks 1.1M _at_ 70
(350K)
NSF
Industry
Titan
Campus 1.5M People, Maintenance,
Campus networking infrastructure Departments
675K Construct, run, manage local clusters

• SimMillennium infrastructure is strategic to the
  future of science engineering on this campus

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Faculty Growth

• 1997-98
• Michael Jordan Computational Learning/Neural
  Networks (joint with Statistics)
• Anthony Joseph Mobile Computing
• Kurt Keutzer Computer-Aided Design
• John Kubiatowicz Computer Architectures
• Senior Hire Theoretical CS, Director-Designate
  International Computer Science Institute
• Senior Hire Communications Theory

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Faculty Growth

• 1996-97
• Tsu-Jae King Intelligent Display Technology
• James Landay User Interface
• Steven McCanne Multimedia Networking
• Kris Pister MEMS
• 1995-96
• Connie Chang-Hasnain Optoelectronics
• Joseph Hellerstein Databases
• Tom Henzinger Automatic Verification
• Christos Papadimitriou Theoretical CS
• David Tse Networking/Communications

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High Priority Recruiting Areas

• High Capability Systems
• Information Processing and Management, emphasis
  on Data Management and/or Digital Libraries
• AI, emphasis on natural language/knowledge
  representation
• Human-Computer Interaction
• BioInformatics
• Modeling, Simulation, Visualization
• Graphics/Multimedia
• Theoretical Computer Science, emphasis on
  algorithms
• High Performance Systems
• Large-scale Software Systems

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UG Degree History at Berkeley
Degrees
About half are CS degrees
Year
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Efforts in Increasing Diversity

• Center for Undergraduate Matters
• Vice Chair Mike Lieberman
• Academic Coordinator, Dr. Sheila Humphreys
• Feeding the Pipeline
• Berkeley Pledge/Interactive University K-12
  outreach to local schools
• Excellence and Diversity Programs
• Computer Science Re-entry Program
• NSF REU-funded SUPERB (Summer Undergraduate
  Program in Engineering at Berkeley) Program
• CORE (Clearinghouse of Opportunities for Research
  Experiences)
• GANN Graduate Fellowships
• Special efforts to recruit and retain admitted
  undergraduate women
• Active student groups SWE, UAWICSE
• CoE MESA Program

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Summary

• Is this a great time, or what?
• New interdisciplinary research
• Continued support for hiring new faculty
• High demand for our students
• Challenges are those of success
• Exploding student demand
• Developing a new, compelling vision of EE and CS
• Entering the 21st Century with new strength,
  vigor, and sense of mission