UW CSE: Top10 research program

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UW CSE Top-10 research program

• Embedded systems, VLSI systems, reconfigurable
  computing

• Gaetano Borriello, Chris Diorio, Carl Ebeling
• Computer architecture
• Jean-Loup Baer (emeritus), Carl Ebeling, Susan
  Eggers, Hank Levy, Mark Oskin, Larry Snyder

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• Systems, Networking, and Security
• Tom Anderson, Magda

• Balazinska, Brian Bershad, Gaetano Borriello,
  Steve Gribble, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Ed Lazowska,
  Hank Levy, Alan Shaw (emeritus), David Wetherall,
  John Zahorjan

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• Programming systems
• Alan Borning, Craig

• Chambers, Susan Eggers, Dan Grossman, Larry
  Snyder
• Data management and intelligent internet systems
• Pedro Domingos, Oren Etzioni, Alon Halevy, Marina
  Meila (adjunct), Dan Suciu, Dan Weld

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• Software engineering
• Gaetano Borriello, David

• Notkin, Alan Shaw (emeritus)
• Computer graphics, computer vision, and animation
• Brian Curless, Barbara Mones, Zoran Popovic,
  David Salesin, Steve Seitz, Linda Shapiro, Steve
  Tanimoto

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• Human interface to computing
• Richard Anderson, Alan Borning, Gaetano
  Borriello, Oren Etzioni, Richard Ladner, James
  Landay, Zoran Popovic, Raj Rao, Steve Tanimoto,
  Dan Weld

• Artificial intelligence and robotics
• Pedro Domingos, Oren Etzioni, Dieter Fox, Henry
  Kautz, Alon Halevy, Marina Meila (adjunct), Raj
  Rao, Steve Tanimoto, Dan Weld

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• Theory of computation
• Paul Beame, Venkat Guruswami, Anna Karlin,
  Richard Ladner, James Lee

• Computing and biology
• Chris Diorio, Raj Rao, Larry Ruzzo, Martin Tompa,
  in collaboration with adjunct and affiliate
  faculty Amir Ben-Dor, Phil Green, Leroy Hood,
  Bill Noble, Maynard Olson, and Benno Schwikowski

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• Technology in education

• Richard Anderson, Steve Tanimoto
• Entrepreneurship
• Emer Dooley
• Lots of active adjunct/affiliate faculty
• Batya Friedman, Phil Green, Maynard Olson, Phil
  Bernstein, Michael Cohen, Lee Hood, Jim Larus,
  Udi Manber, Burton Smith, Eric Horvitz, Josh
  Benaloh,

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UW CSE Outstanding educational programs

• 160 Bachelors graduates per year (Computer
  Science,

• Computer Engineering)
• Superb students because demand is 3X
• Emma Brunskill, Computer Engineering 00, 2001
  Rhodes Scholar
• Kevin Zatloukal, Computer Science 01, 2001
  Computing Research Association national
  Outstanding Undergraduate
• Chris Twigg, Computer Science 02, 1999-2000 UW
  Sophomore Medalist (top student in UWs sophomore
  class)
• Thomas Carlson, Computer Science 02, 1999-2000
  UW Junior Medalist (top student in UWs junior
  class) and 2002 UW Deans Medal for the Sciences
  (top graduating science student)
• Dan Bjorkegren, Computer Science 05, 2002-03 UW
  Freshman Medalist (top student in UWs freshman
  class)
• Erin Earl, Computer Science 03, 2003 UW Deans
  Medal for the Arts (top graduating arts student)

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• Professional Masters Program

• Part-time, evening/distance program with 140
  students, 40 from Microsoft
• High-success Doctoral program

(UWSD Savage, Griswold, Berman, Voelker,
Tullsen, Calder)
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UW CSE A faculty commitment to excellence

• Top-ten ranking by the National Research Council
• UW Brotman Award for Instructional Excellence
• 4 UW Distinguished Teaching Awards
• UW Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award

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• 14 Sloan Research Fellowship recipients
• 5 NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow / Presidential
  Early Career Awards
• 3 Packards

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UW CSE Other factoids

• The region has extraordinary activity in
  software, digital media, bioelectronics, biotech
• More than 3000 software and digital media firms

• UW is a real university
• 2nd nationally in federal research funding
• 3rd nationally in industrial RD support
• 5th nationally in licensing revenue
• 9th nationally in private giving

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Simultaneous Multithreading
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Safeware Engineering Corporation
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• UW is remarkably free of barriers
• Multi-disciplinary work is easy

• CSE strives to be totally free of barriers
• Horizontally heterogeneous offices, no
  rigidly-defined research groups, lots of true
  co-supervision
• Vertically research groups include undergrads,
  grads, postdocs, faculty minimal hierarchy among
  the faculty or between faculty and students

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• Weve got terrific undergraduate majors (in
  reasonable numbers)
• Multiple Presidents and

• Deans Medalists, triple our share of cum laude
  graduates, extensive undergrad involvement in
  research and teaching, neat capstone design
  courses
• Seattle and the Pacific Northwest are terrific
  places to live

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Blizzard-free since 2/17/01
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Riot-free since 2/27/01
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Earthquake-free since 2/28/01
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Boeing-free since 3/21/01
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Kingdome-free since 3/26/01
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365 days of sun each year
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Housed in the spectacular new Paul G. Allen
Center for CSE
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Inside the Allen Center

• Architect LMN Architects
• Benaroya Hall, McCaw Hall, Seattle Library
• General Contractor M.A. Mortenson Co.
• CSE project liaison Hank Levy
• Funding 10M state, 20M UW, 42M private
• Campaign co-chaired by Tom Alberg, Jeremy Jaech,
  Ed Lazowska
• 250 gifts in all

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The bottom line

• Seattle is a great place to be doing computer
  science

• UW CSE is committed to student success