University of Washington Department of Computer Science

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University of WashingtonDepartment of Computer
Science Engineering

• March 2001
• www.cs.washington.edu

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Top-10 research program

• Embedded systems, VLSI systems, and
  reconfigurable computing

• Larry Arnstein, Gaetano Borriello, Chris Diorio,
  Carl Ebeling
• Computer architecture
• Jean-Loup Baer, Carl Ebeling, Susan Eggers, Hank
  Levy, Larry Snyder

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• Networking
• Tom Anderson, Brian Bershad, Richard Ladner,

• Ed Lazowska, Hank Levy, David Wetherall, John
  Zahorjan
• Operating systems and distributed systems
• Tom Anderson, Brian Bershad, Steve Gribble, Anna
  Karlin, Ed Lazowska, Hank Levy, Alan Shaw, John
  Zahorjan

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• Programming systems
• Alan Borning, Craig

• Chambers, Susan Eggers, Larry Snyder
• Information retrieval, database systems, and
  intelligent internet systems
• Pedro Domingos, Oren Etzioni, Alon Levy, Dan
  Suciu, Dan Weld

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• Software engineering
• Gaetano Borriello, David

• Notkin, Alan Shaw
• Computer graphics, computer vision, and animation
• Brian Curless, Barbara Mones, Zoran Popovic,
  David Salesin, Steve Seitz, Linda Shapiro, Steve
  Tanimoto

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• Human interface to computing
• Alan Borning, Gaetano Borriello, Oren Etzioni,
  Zoran Popovic, Steve Tanimoto, Dan Weld
• Artificial intelligence and robotics
• Pedro Domingos, Oren Etzioni, Dieter Fox, Henry
  Kautz, Alon Levy, Steve Tanimoto, Dan Weld

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• Theory of computation
• Richard Anderson, Paul Beame, Anna Karlin,
  Richard Ladner, Martin Tompa

• Computing and biology
• Chris Diorio, Raj Rao, Larry Ruzzo, Rimli
  Sengupta, Martin Tompa
• Entrepreneurship
• Emer Dooley

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Diverse, outstanding educational programs

• 160 Bachelors graduates per year (Computer

• Science, Computer Engineering)
• Superb students because demand is 3X
• Emma Brunskill, Computer Engineering 00, 2001
  Rhodes Scholar
• Kevin Zatloukal, Computer Science 01, 2001
  Computing Research Association national
  Outstanding Undergraduate (plus 2 Honorable
  Mentions)
• Chris Twigg, Computer Science 02, 1999-00 UW
  Sophomore Medalist (top student in UWs sophomore
  class)
• Thomas Carlson, Computer Science 02, 1999-00 UW
  Junior Medalist (top student in UWs junior class)

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• Professional Masters Program

• Top-10 Doctoral program
• William Chan, Ph.D. 00, Mike Ernst, Ph.D. 00 2
  of 3 students recognized nationally in 2000 ACM
  Doctoral Dissertation award competition
• Stefan Savage, Ph.D. 01 offers from MIT,
  Stanford, Berkeley, CMU, UCSD, ...
• 2500 students/year in intro courses
• 5000 students/year in extension courses

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A faculty commitment to excellence

• Top-ten ranking by the National Research Council
• UW Brotman Award for Instructional Excellence
• 4 UW Distinguished Teaching Awards
• UW Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award

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• UW Annual Faculty Lecturer

• UW Outstanding Public Service Award
• Seattle Alliance for Education A Partnership
  Award
• R1edu Educational Technology Award
• National Academy of Engineering

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• 7 Sloan Research Fellowship recipients
• 5 NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow / Presidential
  Early Career Awards

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• 8 NSF CAREER Awards

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• 8 Fulbright recipients
• 2 Guggenheim recipients
• 17 Fellows in major professional societies

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Vibrantentrepreneurial activity
Simultaneous Multithreading
Safeware Engineering Corporation
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Maximal integration

• Horizontally
• No rigidly-defined research

• groups lots of true co-supervision
  heterogeneous grad student offices technical and
  administrative equipment and support is communal
• Vertically
• Research, education, and social activities
  include undergrads, grads, postdocs, faculty,
  staff minimal hierarchy among the faculty or
  between faculty and students

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UW provides a terrific environment

• A top national research university

• 2nd nationally in federal research funding
• 3rd nationally in industrial RD support
• 5th nationally in licensing revenue
• 9th nationally in private giving
• Very low barriers to collaboration
• Art, Astronomy, Business, Education, Electrical
  Engineering, I-School, Medicine, Molecular
  Biotechnology, Music ...

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• A CSE facility like no other

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Seattle provides a terrific environment too

• A wonderful urban environment
• Unbeatable natural surroundings
• More than 2000 technology companies

• Microsoft Research is a huge asset, but so are
  Adobe, Appliant, Asta Networks, Boeing,
  Consystant, Equator, Impinj, Intel, Nimble,
  Tera/Cray, WRQ, many more

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Blizzard-free since February 17
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Riot-free since February 27
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Quake-free since February 28
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Boeing-free since March 21
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The bottom line (seriously!)

• A great place to continue your education
• A great place to live and to work