State of the Department 26 August 1998 Randy H. Katz, Chair EECS Department University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA

Goals of this Administration Continue to hire outstanding young faculty able to lead us into the fastest growing areas of EE and CS in the next century Accelerate our ascent to become the #1 Department of EE + CS Make more symmetric the relationship between EE and CS

David Culler, VC Computing & Networking Joe Kahn, VC Grad Matters Mike Lieberman, VC UG Matters Carlo Sequin, VC CS Admin Administrative Team Randy Katz, Chair, EECS Andy Neureuther, Assoc. Chair, EECS Shankar Sastry, Director, ERL ILP Program Jan Rabaey, Chenming Hu Co-Directors

Vision Statement “If you don’t know where you are going, all winds are favorable.”

Vision Statement Berkeley will be the most exciting place to perform high impact research while learning about the latest developments in the rapidly developing field of EE and CS We will become #1, as measured by: –the quality and impact of our research –the excellent preparation of our students for leadership –the exceptional value of our service to the state and the nation –the dedication of our departmental staff to outstanding service, and our commitment to recognize everyone's contribution to our success.

Vision Statement We will achieve this by: –Leveraging our unique ability to collaborate across traditional disciplinary boundaries –Exploiting our close proximity to the World’s greatest concentration of high technology industry –Hiring and nuturing outstanding and energetic young faculty, able to lead us into the new research areas of the 21st Century –Retaining high selectivity within our graduate program, choosing students with the potential to be leaders in the field –Continuing to attract the most academically accomplished undergraduate students on the Berkeley campus –Encouraging a work environment that is oriented towards service quality and which appreciates the contributions of all members of the EECS/ERL staff family

The Information Age “Is this a great time, or what?” MCI Internet Ad

The Information Age Electronics + computing = “information technology” Technologies crucial for manipulating large amounts of information in electronic formats –Hardware: Semiconductors, optoelectronics, high performance computing and networking, satellites and terrestrial wireless communications devices; –Software: Computer programs, software engineering, software agents; –Hardware-Software Combination: Speech and vision recognition, compression technologies; Information industries: assemble, distribute, and process information in a wide range of media, e.g., telephone, cable, print, and electronic media companies $3 trillion world wide industry within ten years

Importance of Information Technology to California $35 billion in 1995 sales (vs. $90 billion nationwide) Home to: –27% of computer manufacturing industry employment –50% of computer peripheral industry employment –37% of nation’s venture capital –computers/electronics sector employment: 176,400 –software sector employment: 104,000 –telecomms/info tech employed: 329,000 Approx. $28 billion for information technology R&D State’s exports: –$58.9 billion, more than half of California’s total exports! Bay region: –93,000 employed in computers/electronics, 80,000 in telecomms, 59,000 in multimedia, 30,000 software jobs in Santa Clara county alone (45,000 new jobs statewide between 90-95)! –San Jose beats NY as highest average wage city in country

California Means Internet Top 12 US Counties for Internet Hosts, NY Times, 9/16/96

Research Funding ( ) Approx. $28M $8.3 $4.6 $5.5 $3.1 $1.2 $0.5 $0.1 pprox. $44M $16.7 $11.1 $4.5 $6.9 $2.7 $1.0 $0.5 $0.1 Research Funding ( ) Other DoD = Air Force, Army, Office of Naval Research (ONR), etc. Other Federal = DOE, NASA, National Institutes of Health (NIH), etc.

What Makes Berkeley Special Unique academic culture of excellence & collaboration Excellent theory group and large-scale interdisciplinary experimental research projects –Architecture: RISC, RAID, NOW, IRAM, CNS-1, BRASS –Berkeley Digital Library Project: Environmental Data –BSAC: sensors, actuators, MEMs –CAD: Modeling, Simulation, Synthesis, Verification –InfoPad: Portable Multimedia Terminal –Lithography and TCAD –Networking: BARWAN, ICEBERG, MASH, NINJA, Plateau –Parallel Systems: Multipole, ScaLAPACK, Split-C, Titanium –PATH Intelligent Highway Project, FAA Center of Excellence –Robotics/Intelligent Systems –...

Berkeley Tradition of Experimental Computing Systems Research Evaluate existing technology to understand its weaknesses Deploy understand implementation complexities and sources of performance gain/loss Time Travel using today’s too expensive technology to prototype tomorrow’s systems Design new computing systems architectures

Track Record of Research that Leads Industry Spice circuit simulator plus CAD industry Berkeley UNIX Ingres Relational Database Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC) Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) Large Scale Cluster Computing (NOW) Berkeley Microlab Berkeley MEMS/Sensor & Actuator Center Digital Libraries

Major New Research Initiatives Berkeley Wireless Research Center –Professor Robert Brodersen –Focus on single chip radios SIA MARCO Design Center –Professor Richard Newton –Design for deep submicron technologies Millennium/SimMillennium –Professor David Culler –Harness NOW technology for computational science and engineering across the Berkeley campus

Major New Research Infrastructure Leading award in UC Smart Program for Microlab upgrade (“Microlab 2002”) and related research on “Small Feature Reproducibility” $6 million in Intel equipment for Millennium Project $4.9 million in Bay Networks/Nortel equipment credits for gigabit ethernet and other high performance infrastructure in EECS and as part of Millennium Project

Student and Faculty Statistics Faculty –EE: FTE –CS: 36 FTE –Architecture, CAD, Signal Processing, Circuits faculty “overlap” –78.75 authorized FTE growing to 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 Largest department on campus Size Does Matter!

Recent Faculty Recognition NAE (27) –Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincetteli Sloan Foundation Fellow –Joe Hellerstein ACM Fellows (12) –Larry Rowe, Carlo Sequin ACM Dissertation Award (2) –Steven McCanne NSF Career Awards –King, McCanne, Tse SIAM von Neumann Lecturer –Velvel Kahan Chancellor’s Professor (3) –Susan Graham, Chenming Hu IEEE Fellows (52) –Anantharam, Chang-Hasnain Okawa Prize (2) –John Whinnery Sigma Xi Ferst Award –Chenming Hu IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award –Roger Howe, Richard Muller IEEE Medal of Honor –Don Pederson Van Valkenberg Award –Leon Chua

College of Engineering Growth Demand for information technology skills far exceeds supply in California University administration and Gov. Wilson targets student and faculty growth in computer science 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

Faculty Growth Merrick Furst: Theoretical CS, Director International Computer Science Institute Michael Jordan: Machine Learning (joint with Stat) Anthony Joseph: Mobile Computing Kurt Keutzer: Computer-Aided Design John Kubiatowicz: Computer Architectures

Faculty Growth Doug Tygar: Security/E-Commerce (joint with SIMS) George Necula, Compilers/Verification Jonathan Shewchuk, Scientific Computing Digital Signal Processing Theoretical Computer Scientist

Faculty FTE Breakdown EE –Signal Processing: 4.5 –Communication: 3.0 –Networks: 2.5 –CAD: 3.5 –ICs: 4.0 –Solid State & MEM’s: 4.5 –Process Tech. & Man.: 5.0 –Optoelectronics: 5.0 –EM & Plasma: 2.25 –Controls: 3.0 –Robotics: 2.0 –Bioelectronics: (1.3) –Power 1.5 –TOT: (+1.3 P-in-R) CS –Sci Comp: 2.5 –Architecture: 5.0 –Software: 5.5 –Theory: 6.0 –OS/Nets: 4.5 –MM/UI/Graphics: 4.0 –AI: 5.5 –DB: 1.0 –TOT: SOE Lecturers –DEPARTMENT: FTE Authorized (1998) Authorized (1999) 3 New + 2 Continue (+ 1 Retirement)

Department’s Strategic Plan Human Centered Systems –User Interfaces: Image, graphics, audio, video, speech, natural language –Information Management & Intelligent Processing –Embedded and Network- connected computing »Hardware building blocks: DSP, PGA, Comms »High performance, low power devices, sensors, actuators »OS and CAD »Ambient/Personalized Computing Software Engineering –Design, development, evolution, and maintenance of high-quality complex software systems »Specification & verification »Real time software »Scalable algorithms »Evolution & maintenance of legacy code

Last Year’s High Priority Recruiting Areas EE Immediate –Control of complex, distributed, multi-agent systems –Digital system design for high performance systems 4Signal Processing EE Near Term –Bioengineering, emphasis on imaging or bioelectronics –CAM/CIM, emphasis on semiconductor manufacturing –Integrated circuit devices CS Immediate –Graphics/Multimedia, emphasis on visualization or animation –Information Processing & Management, emphasis on data management/digital libraries 4Theoretical Computer Science, emphasis on algorithms CS Near Term –AI, emphasis on knowledge representation or natural language –Bioinformatics –Human-Computer Interaction 4Large-scale software systems

Space: The Final Frontier Making the (quantitative) case for space –Inventory of existing space utilization plus extrapolate space needs over next 5-10 years »New kinds of research activities: wet labs, expanded Microlab, computer rooms, space for industrial visitors, postdocs »New kinds of teaching activities: executive education, production facilities, distance learning classrooms »Changing nature of student body (e.g., instructional computer labs versus instrumentation/hardware labs) »Accommodating planned faculty and student growth, retirements/emeriti space –Campus-level intensive space scrutiny next year; must be prepared!

Software Jobs Go Begging “America’s New Deficit: The Shortage of Information Technology Workers,” Department of Commerce –Job growth exceeds the available talent – : 1 million new information technology workers will be needed “Help Wanted: The IT Workforce Gap at the Dawn of a New Century,” ITAA –190,000 unfilled positions for IT workers nationwide –Between 1986 and 1994, bachelor degrees in CS fell from 42,195 to 24,200 (43%) Implications for sustaining the high technology boom in California and the U.S.?

Accelerating Demand for Our Graduates 1996 –BS: $44,000 –MS: $55,000 –PhD: $70, –BS: $47,000 –MS: $62,000 –PhD: $80,000

UG Degree History at Berkeley Year #Degrees About half are CS degrees

Undergraduate Enrollment Trends L&S CS EECS/CS CS Total EECS/EE Total The trend towards CS enrollment growth continues

A New Vision for EECS “If we want everything to stay as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.” Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa ( )

Old View of EECS EE physics circuits signals control Physical World CS algorithms programming comp systems AI Synthetic World

New View of EECS EE components CS algorithms EECS complex/electronics systems Processing Devices MEMS Optoelectronics Circuits CAD Sim & Viz Programming Databases CS Theory Intelligent Sys & Control Communications Sys Intelligent Displays Reconfigurable Systems Computing Systems Multimedia User Interfaces Robotics/Vision InfoPad IRAM Signal Proc Control AI Software

EECS Info Mgmt & Systems Cognitive Science Computational Sci & Eng BioSci/Eng Biosensors & BioInfo Materials Science/ Electronic Materials Physical Sciences/ Electronics MechE Sensors & Control Design Sci

Curriculum Redesign EECS 20N: Structure & Interpretation of Systems and signals Every EECS student will take: –Introduction to Signals and Systems –Introduction to Electronics –Introduction to Computing (3 course sequence) Computing emerges as a tool as important as mathematics and physics in the engineering curriculum –More freedom in selecting science and mathematics courses –Biology becoming increasing important

Five Undergraduate Programs Program I: Electronics –Electronics –Integrated Circuits –Physical Electronics –Micromechanical Systems Program II: Communications, Networks, Systems –Computation –Bioelectronics –Circuits and Systems Program III: Computer Systems Program IV: Computer Science Program V: General

Conclusions “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 –MIT, Stanford are the competition Entering the 21st Century with new strength, vigor, and sense of mission