Henning Schulzrinne, Chair

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Computer Science at Columbia University

• Henning Schulzrinne, Chair
• Department of Computer Science
• December 1, 2005

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Computer Science Highlights

• Comprehensive research, focusing on key areas
• Interdisciplinary
• from architecture to journalism to medicine
• (Roughly) largest SEAS department
• in faculty, enrollment, external research
• distance learning via CVN
• training non-CS SEAS and College students in
  algorithmic thinking and introductory programming
  skills
• Only SEAS department that enrolls SEAS, College,
  GSAS Barnard students

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CS in numbers

• 37 faculty (incl. 2 joint appointments and 1
  Dean)
• About 120 PhD students
• About 190 MS students ( 30 CVN students)
• Undergraduate majors

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Faculty 35 (32 tenure track, 3 lecturers) 3
joint




Carloni
Feiner
Edwards
Aho
Allen
Belhumeur
Cannon
Galil
Bellovin
Gravano
Gross
Grunschlag
Kender
Kaiser
Keromytis
Hirschberg
Jebara
Grinspun
McKeown
Nayar
Ramamoorthi
Ross
Nowick
Nieh
Malkin
Rubenstein
Misra
Yannakakis
Servedio
Schulzrinne
Stolfo
Shortliffe
Unger
Stein
Wozniakowski
Traub
Yemini
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Columbia Computer Science Research
UI, NLP, collab work
graphics, robotics, vision
networks, security, OS, software eng
quantum computing, crypto, learning, algorithms
databases, data mining, machine learning
CAD, async circuits, embedded systems
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Columbias Growing Computer Science Research
Impact
government
Industrial
research gifts

• Technology impact through
• start-ups
• security, network management, thin clients,
  VoIP,
• standardization
• VoIP, security,
• education