Welcome to
the Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science Department
Randy H. Katz, Chair
Andy R. Neureuther, Assoc. Chair
EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1770
Presentation Outline
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Academic Reputation
Department Culture
Facilities and Research Funding
Faculty Growth
Student Population
Summary & Conclusions
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
Business Weeks’ World Leading
Computer Science Labs
1978
– AT&T Bell Labs
– MIT LCS
1998
– Stanford
– MIT LCS
#2
– Stanford
– Berkeley
– Xerox PARC
– CMU
– CMU
– IBM Research
– Lucent Bell Labs
– IBM Research
#5 – Berkeley
– Illinois
– AT&T Labs
– University of Washington
– Cornell
– SRI
– MIT Media Lab
– Xerox PARC
Departmental Culture
• Computing joins mathematics and physics as core
of the sciences and engineering
• Support for large-scale interdisciplinary
experimental research projects
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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
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
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$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
Research Funding (1996-97)
List price equipment
and cash
25%
6%
1% 2%
10%
38%
16%
State
MICRO
DARPA
Other DoD
NSF
Other Fed
Industry
Other
Other DoD = Air Force, Army, Office of Naval Research (ONR), etc.
Other Federal = DOE, NASA, National Institutes of Health (NIH), etc.
Student and Faculty Statistics
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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
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)
NSF-Industry-University
Leverage
SimMillennium
NSF
Intel $6M
IBM $400K
Bay Networks $1.1M @ 70% ($350K)
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
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
Faculty Growth
1996-97
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Tsu-Jae King: Intelligent Display Technology
James Landay: User Interface
Steven McCanne: Multimedia Networking
Kris Pister: MEMS
1995-96
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Connie Chang-Hasnain: Optoelectronics
Joseph Hellerstein: Databases
Tom Henzinger: Automatic Verification
Christos Papadimitriou: Theoretical CS
David Tse: Networking/Communications
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
UG Degree History at Berkeley
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About
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CS degrees
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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
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