Dale Reed

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• Dale Reed
• Lecturer, Computer Science
• University of Illinois at Chicago
  (UIC)reed_at_uic.edu

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• Got Computer?
• What computers have you used today?

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What Ill describe

1. Help Wanted?CS Job Prospects, Descriptions
2. CS at UIC
3. EVL research Lab,Pedalplane

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1. Help Wanted?CS Job Prospects, Descriptions
2. CS at UIC
3. EVL research Lab,Pedalplane

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US Department of Labor Occupational Outlook
Handbookhttp//www.bls.gov/oco/ocos267.htm

• Despite the recent downturn in information
  technology, employment of computer software
  engineers is expected to increase much faster
  than the average for all occupations, as
  businesses and other organizations adopt and
  integrate new technologies and seek to maximize
  the efficiency of their computer systems.

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US Dept of LaborBureau of Labor
Statistics(2002-2012 Projections)

• 7 of the 10 fastest growing occupations are
  computer (information technology) related
  occupations.
• Money Magazine (Nov. 14, 2004)
• Ranks CS as 6th among the top 10 degrees in
  employment demand.

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Money Magazine (Feb. 2004)

• Computer Science ranks in the top 5 of highest
  paid professionals just out of college.
• The average offer for computer science majors
  rose 8.9 percent to 48,656 and more than half
  the offers surveyed topped 50,000.

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And yet

• The number of freshman indicating they are
  planning on majoring in computer science has
  declined by over 60 between the Fall of 2000 and
  2004 (HERI/UCLA quoted in May 2005 Computing
  Research News)
• Job growth smaller pool of CS grads
  Opportunity!

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Some Computer Science related specialties

• Programmers (writing the instructions to tell
  computers what to do)
• Software Engineers (design, develop, test, and
  evaluate software systems)
• Systems Analysts (harness technology to solve
  general computer problems)
• Network Administrators (interoperability and
  security of computer components)
• Database Administrators (organize, store and
  secure data)
• Support Specialists (technical support and
  advice to computer users)
• Computer Scientists (theoretical research
  concerning technological innovation)

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Recent CS Graduates (BS Degree)Sample Jobs

• Carnegie Mellon University Graduate study in
  security.
• Accenture following a semester internship
• Abbott Labs - Software engineering
• Microsoft - Testing tools and recruiting
• Expedia - Web site development for online travel
  resources
• Argonne National Laboratory Integration of new
  technologies, setting up high-speed networks
• Apple Technical writer
• Microsoft - Software Design Engineer
• Motorola Software Development and Testing
• Note Many federal agencies are needing computer
  experts to meet new demands related to homeland
  security, etc.

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1. Help Wanted?CS Job Prospects, Descriptions
2. CS at UIC
3. EVL research LabPedalplane

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• Undergraduate Instruction began in Chicago 1946
• Circle Campus 1965 8600 students

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• How many students today?
• Undergraduate class size in CS ?

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UIC Today

• Largest university in Chicago
• 25,000 students
• 16,000 undergraduates
• 12,000 faculty and staff
• 1.4 billion budget
• 100 buildings on 250 acres
• States major public medical center
• Research volume more than 300M federal research
  funding in FY04 192.8M
• One minute from Loop

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Highlights

• In terms of Federal RD expenditures as compiled
  by NSF, ranks higher than Purdue, Michigan State,
  and Indiana
• Has worlds most powerful magnet, used to for
  research in studying the human body
• Has largest medical school in the US
• Offers the first, and only, PhD program in
  Bioinformatics in the state of Illinois

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Academic Departments

• College of Liberal Arts and Science
• College of Architecture and the Arts
• College of Applied Health and Sciences
• College of Business Administration
• College of Dentistry
• College of Education
• College of Engineering
• College of Medicine
• College of Nursing
• College of Pharmacy

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Departments in Engineering

• College of Liberal Arts and Science
• College of Architecture and the Arts
• College of Applied Health and Sciences
• College of Business Administration
• College of Dentistry
• College of Education
• College of Engineering
• College of Medicine
• College of Nursing
• College of Pharmacy

• Bioengineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil and Materials
• Computer Science
• Electrical Computer
• Mechanical Industrial

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Computer Science Highlights

• Over 30 Award-winning faculty8 NSF Career
  awards, 5 Fellows, 15 editors or board members, 5
  teaching awards
• 185 undergraduates, 200 graduatesDiverse student
  body, BS, MS, Ph.D.
• Average undergraduate class size 25
• A leading research dept. at UICOver 8 million
  yearlyCorporate sponsors IBM, Apple, Boeing,
  Motorola, GM, SUN, DARPA, NIH, ONR, DOD
• Setting near the heart of Chicago, Internships

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Company Recruiting Visits
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CS Areas of Expertise

• Computer security
• Bioinformatics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Databases/Data Mining
• Computer Systems
• Networking
• Computer Graphics/Virtual Reality
• Human Computer Interaction
• Software Engineering
• Automated Design

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How We Stack Up
1993 National Research Council program quality
ranking Rank, School8. Univ. Illinois
Champaign-Urbana24. Univ. of Chicago26. Purdue
38. Northwestern51. UIC 91. IITNot in top
108 DePaul, Loyola Similar numbers in more
recent US News World Report
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Research Examples
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TransLight/StarLight International Research
Network Connections Investigators Maxine Brown
and Tom DeFanti, CS Department Prime Grant
Support National Science Foundation SCI-0441094

• Cooperation with US and European national
  research and education networks
• production science networks
• Complement at least 10 other 10 Gigabit links

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The OptIPuter Project Tom DeFanti, Jason Leigh,
Maxine Brown, Tom Moher, Oliver Yu, Bob Grossman,
Luc Renambot Electronic Visualization Laboratory,
Department of Computer Science, UIC Larry Smarr,
California Institute of Telecommunications and
Information Technology, UCSD National Science
Foundation Award SCI-0225642
The OptIPuter, so named for its use of Optical
networking, Internet Protocol, computer storage,
processing and visualization technologies, is an
infrastructure that tightly couples computational
resources and displays over parallel optical
networks using the IP communication mechanism.
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Multi-Camera Head Tracking for the Varrier
Autostereo Display Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot,
Javier Girado, Andrew Johnson, Dan Sandin, Tom
DeFanti, Electronic Visualization Laboratory,
Dept. of Computer Science Office of Naval
Research and National Science Foundation
7x5 LCD panels covered with a black line screen
overlay to achieve an autostereoscopic effect.
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SAGE Scalable Adaptive Graphics
Environment Investigators Andrew Johnson,
Computer Science, Jason Leigh, Computer
Science Prime Grant Support National Science
Foundation, Office of Naval Research

• In the future it will be affordable desirable
  to wallpaper rooms with displays showing multiple
  applications to support data-intensive
  collaboration.

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Gateway Traveler Information System Investigators
Dillenburg Nelson, and Rorem Computer
Science Prime Grant Support Illinois Department
of Transportation

• Provide www.gcmtravel.com website with real-time
  maps of congestion, travel times, incidents and
  construction

25 million hits per month gcmtravel.com
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Classroom Simulations of Scientific
Phenomena Investigators Tom Moher, Computer
Science Jennifer Wiley, Psychology Louis Gomez,
Learning Sciences (Northwestern University) Prime
Grant Support National Science Foundation

• RoomQuake (earthquake simulation)
• RoomBugs (simulation of insect migration in
  response to environmental change)

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Who Should Apply?

• Students interested in being developers, not just
  consumers of computer technology
• ACT scores of 25 or higher, or in top 20 of
  class
• Open House dates October 10 (Columbus Day,
  Monday) November 11 (Veterans Day, Friday)
  February 20, 2006 (President's Day, Monday)
  March 6, 2006 (Pulaski Day, Monday)
• Contact Email recruit_at_cs.uic.edu
  Phone Elena or Santhi at 312-413-4950
• www.cs.uic.edu

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1. Help Wanted?CS Job Prospects, Descriptions
2. CS at UIC
3. EVL research Lab,Pedalplane

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