Transcript EECS at UC Berkeley

State of the Department
26 August 1998
Randy H. Katz, Chair
EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1770
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
Administrative Team
Randy Katz, Chair, EECS
Andy Neureuther,
Assoc. Chair, EECS
David Culler, VC Computing & Networking
Joe Kahn, VC Grad Matters
Mike Lieberman, VC UG Matters
Carlo Sequin, VC CS Admin
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:
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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
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Internet Hosts, NY Times, 9/16/96
Research Funding (1996-97)
Research Funding (1995-96)
State
State
$0.5
$0.5
$0.1 $1.0
$0.1 $1.2
MICRO
MICRO
DARPA
DARPA
$11.1 $4.6
$8.3
$3.1
$2.7
$4.6
$4.5
$5.5
$6.9
Other
DoDDoD
Other
$16.7
NSF
NSF
Other Fed
Other Fed
Industry
pprox. $44M
Approx.
$28M
Industry
Other
Other
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
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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
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Berkeley Tradition of Experimental
Computing Systems Research
Evaluate
existing technology
to understand
its weaknesses
Time Travel
using today’s too
expensive technology
to prototype
tomorrow’s systems
Design
new computing
systems
architectures
Deploy
understand implementation
complexities and sources of
performance gain/loss
Track Record of Research
that Leads Industry
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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: 40.75 FTE
– CS: 36 FTE
– Architecture, CAD,
Signal Processing,
Circuits faculty
“overlap”
– 78.75 authorized FTE
growing to 80.75 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
Largest department on campus
Size Does Matter!
– 300 EE
– 200 CS
Recent Faculty Recognition
• NAE (27)
– Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincetteli
• Chancellor’s Professor (3)
– Susan Graham, Chenming Hu
• Sloan Foundation Fellow • IEEE Fellows (52)
– 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
– 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
1997-98
• 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
1998-99
• 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
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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: 40.75 (+1.3 P-in-R)
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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: 34 + 2 SOE Lecturers
– DEPARTMENT: 76.75 FTE
78.75 Authorized (1998)
80.75 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 Networkconnected 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
4 Signal 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
4 Theoretical Computer Science,
emphasis on algorithms
• CS Near Term
– AI, emphasis on knowledge
representation or natural
language
– Bioinformatics
– Human-Computer Interaction
4 Large-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
– 1994-2005: 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: $70,000
• 1997
– BS: $47,000
– MS: $62,000
– PhD: $80,000
UG Degree History at
Berkeley
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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 (18961957)
Old View of EECS
Physical
World
EE
CS
physics
circuits
signals
control
algorithms
programming
comp systems
AI
Synthetic
World
New View of EECS
Intelligent Sys & Control
Communications Sys
Intelligent Displays
EECS
complex/electronics
systems
Signal Proc
Control
EE
Processing
Devices
MEMS
Optoelectronics
Circuits
AI
Software
Robotics/Vision
InfoPad
IRAM
components
CAD
Sim & Viz
Reconfigurable Systems
Computing Systems
Multimedia
User Interfaces
CS
algorithms
Programming
Databases
CS Theory
MechE
Sensors &
Control
Physical
Sciences/
Electronics
Materials
Science/
Electronic
Materials
Design
Sci
Info Mgmt
& Systems
EECS
Cognitive
Science
Computational
Sci & Eng
BioSci/Eng
Biosensors &
BioInfo
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
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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