UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Berkeley
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
Welcome to
Berkeley
Edward A. Lee
Chair, Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences (EECS)
University of California, Berkeley
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Berkeley
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
The Context
Berkeley is a university
Some campus collaborations:
• Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute
• Neuroscience Institute
• Bioengineering, Mechanical, IEOR, Civil and
Environmental, Nuclear Engineering
Soda Hall (CS)
• ICSI: International Computer Science
Institute
• MSRI: Math Sciences Research Institute
• Lawrence Berkeley National Labs
• PATH: Advanced Transit and Highways
Campus strength:
• Campus overall was ranked #1 in the US by
the National Research Council (1998)
• Campus ranked #3 worldwide in sciences
(behind Cambridge and Oxford) by the
London Times Supplement of Higher
Education (2006).
LBNL
Stadium
Cory Hall (EE)
Citris Building
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
Our Mission
• Educating future leaders in academia, government, industry, and
entrepreneurial pursuit, through a rigorous curriculum of theory and
application that develops the ability to solve problems, individually
and in teams.
• Creating knowledge of fundamental principles and innovative
technologies, through research within the core areas of EECS and in
collaboration with other disciplines, that is distinguished by its
impact on academia, industry and society.
• Serving the communities to which we belong, at local, national,
and international levels, combined with a deep awareness of our
ethical responsibilities to our profession and to society.
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Our Customers
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Students
Industry
Academia
Society
Key metric for success:
If our students succeed, we succeed!
More PhD’s did their
undergraduate work at
Berkeley than any
other US institution.
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
Our Strategy
Recruit and retain the very best
faculty, students, and staff, and
then empower them to direct and
drive the creation and
dissemination of knowledge.
EECS Demographics
Faculty FTE
Undergraduates
Graduate Students
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EE 39.00
CS 41.49
Plus 50 active emeriti,
professors in
residence (PIR) and
adjunct professors.
566 ECE
377 CSE
140 LS/CS
Admit 7%
302 EE
228 CS
Admit 6%
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History of EECS
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1868: UC Berkeley chartered with Colleges of Mechanics,
Mining and Civil Engineering.
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1875: Hesse appointed to head the College of Mechanics.
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1893: Cory hired as assistant professor of mechanical and
electrical engineering.
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1890s: Cory and LeConte installed electrical equipment for research and extended service to
supply light and power to the entire campus from the laboratory plant.
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1901: Cory made dean of the College of Mechanics (until 1930).
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1930: Colleges of Mechanics and Civil Engineering were combined to form the College of
Engineering, containing the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.
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1942: College of Mining merged into the College of Engineering, and the Department of
Engineering formed, containing the Division of Electrical Engineering.
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1958: Division of Electrical Engineering became the
Department of Electrical Engineering.
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1968: Department of Computer Science established in the
College of Letters and Science (with several faculty from EE).
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1973: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
formed from a merger of EE and CS.
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
Our Academic Reputation
London Times
Supplement of Higher Education
US News & World Report
Worldwide University Rankings, 2006
US Graduate School Rankings, 2006
Electrical/Electronic/Communications
1. MIT
2. Berkeley/Stanford (2-way tie)
Computer Science Programs
1. Berkeley/CMU/MIT/Stanford (4-way tie)
Sciences
1. Cambridge
2. Oxford
3. Berkeley
4… Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Caltech…
Computer Engineering Programs
1. MIT/Stanford (2-way tie)
3. Berkeley/CMU (2-way tie)
Colleges of Engineering
1. MIT
2. Stanford
3. Berkeley
Technology
1. MIT
2. Berkeley
3. IIT
4… Imperial College, Stanford, Cambridge, …
National Research Council
US University Rankings, 1998
Engineering
1. MIT
2. Berkeley
Universities Overall
1. Berkeley
(34 of 35 departments in the top 10)
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We Have a Complete Portfolio of
Research and Teaching
Strategic view: EECS is about harnessing physical processes to perform logical and
epistemic functions. We bridge the physical world and the semantic one.
Our joint EE & CS program is a major competitive strength.
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We Are Educational Leaders
Many leading textbooks are written by our faculty.
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
We Are Committed to Teaching
• Our courses are
almost always
taught by regular
faculty.
• Our faculty teach
both undergraduate
and graduate
courses.
• Teaching
evaluations are a
major consideration
in promotion and
tenure.
Sample web page from HKN, the student honor
society, which manages course evaluations.
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Quality Teaching is a Tradition
The Distinguished Teaching Award is the Berkeley Campus’ most
prestigous teaching award. Winners from EECS:
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Manuel Blum
Charlie Desoer
Brian Harvey
Chenming Hu
Randy Katz
Richard Karp
Edwin Lewis
Michael Lieberman
John Ousterhout
Dave Patterson
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
David Wagner
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We Are Research Leaders. Some of Our Contributions:
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Berkeley Unix
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MEMS systems
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Model-based design
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Open source movement
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Quantum computing
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Parallel computing
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RAID storage systems
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Randomized algorithms
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Relational databases
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RISC processors
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Software verfication
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Sensor Networks
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Soft computing
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Systems theory
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Spice
The first free Unix, virual memory, foundation of Linux
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Computational complexity
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Cryptography
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Devices
microelectromechanical systems
NP-completeness
Concurrent models of computation, formal foundations
Foundations of cryptographic protocols
Berkeley software is truly free (vs. MIT’s GPL)
FINFET transistor, organic semiconductors, etc.
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Electrical ground fault interruptors
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Electronic design automation (EDA)
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Embedded systems
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Floating point
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Graph algorithms
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Hybrid systems
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Nanoscale electronics
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Networking
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Mixed-signal circuits
Foundations of Quantum Complexity Theory
Invented at Berkeley in the 1950s
Network of Workstations
Berkeley built this industry
Dominant design for large storage systems
Concurrency, real-time computing, formal foundations
Randomness as a computational resource
IEEE 754 floating point standard
An EE/CS collaboration (Stonebreaker & Wong)
Network Flow, Planar separators and embeddings
Reduced instruction set computers
Mixed discrete/continuous systems
PCP (Probabilistically Checkable Proofs)
Photolithography, transistors, transistor models, etc.
Berkeley created this field
TCP/IP, foundation of the Internet, in Berkeley UNIX
Fuzzy logic
Key contributions that make CMOS dominant
Foundations of control, communications, signal proc.
Worldwide standard in circuit simulation
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
We Have Many Large, Collaborative Research Efforts
Example: The Microlab
and BSAC (Berkeley
Sensor and Actuator
Center)
Accelerometer
technology used in all
airbag systems
worldwide comes from
Berkeley.
Many undergraduates
participate in such projects
(about 1/3 participate in
research).
(images from the Ph.D.
thesis of Mark Lempkin)
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
Strong Interactions With Industry
We have a culture of relevance!
• Proximity to Silicon Valley
• Internship program for undergraduates
• Strong industrial funding for research
• Many startups
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We Have an Extremely Distinguished Faculty…
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National Medal of Science (2)
ACM A.M.Turing Award (3)
MacArthur Prize (1)
National Academy of Sciences (7)
National Academy of Engineering (36)
IEEE Medal of Honor (3)
SIAM von Neumann Lecture Prize (2)
American Society for Engineering Education Awards (8)
C&C Promotion Prize (2)
Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame (2)
Benjamin Franklin Medal (1)
Harvey Prize (1)
Honda Prize (1)
Okawa Prize (2)
National Science Foundation Awards (52)
American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellows (14)
UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award (12)
Sloan Foundation Fellowships (11)
ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (12)
Endowed Chairs (21)
Many other ACM, IEEE, SIAM and other awards
The Faculty Teach,
Advise and Lead Research:
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~120 Lecture hours per Year
~20 undergraduate advisees
~6 graduate students
~$600K in funded research
~2 departmental committees
~1 college or campus committee
Nearly every faculty contributes
to a World Class research activity.
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…Yet You Will Find a Cafe Style
Nefeli or Brewed Awakening? Informal interactions are common
between faculty and students in different areas.
Turing Award winner
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
Some Berkeley Contributors to
ASYNC Concepts
Active and here:
• Bob Brayton
• Bob Brodersen
• Kurt Keutzer
• Edward A. Lee (software?)
• Jan Rabaey
• Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
• Ivan Sutherland
Some Distinguished Alumni:
• Gaetano Borriello
• Jordi Cortadella
• Gordie Jacobs
• Luciano Lavagno
• Teresa Meng
• Yosinori Watanabe
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