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

Presentation Outline 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 –Stanford –Xerox PARC –CMU –IBM Research –Berkeley –Illinois –Cornell –SRI 1998 –Stanford –MIT LCS –Berkeley –CMU –Lucent Bell Labs –IBM Research –AT&T Labs –University of Washington –MIT Media Lab –Xerox PARC #5 #2

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

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

Research Funding ( ) Other DoD = Air Force, Army, Office of Naval Research (ONR), etc. Other Federal = DOE, NASA, National Institutes of Health (NIH), etc. 38% 25% 10% 16% 6% 2%1% List price equipment and cash

Student and Faculty Statistics Faculty –EE: FTE –CS: 33 FTE –Architecture, CAD, Signal Processing, Circuits faculty “overlap” –78.75 authorized FTE Undergraduate Program –893.5 (515 in CS, in EE) in B.S. program –212 in B.A. program – 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 FTE)

NSF Industry Titan SimMillennium Intel $6M IBM $400K Bay Networks 70% ($350K) Campus $1.5M People, Maintenance, Campus networking infrastructure Departments $675K Construct, run, manage local clusters NSF-Industry-University Leverage SimMillennium infrastructure is strategic to the future of science & engineering on this campus

Faculty Growth 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 Tsu-Jae King: Intelligent Display Technology James Landay: User Interface Steven McCanne: Multimedia Networking Kris Pister: MEMS 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 Year #Degrees About half are CS degrees

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