Dale Reed

University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Lecturer, Computer Science [email protected]

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Computer Science

Why Study CS?

• It’s interesting, satisfying work. Software Engineer rated the best job in America Avg. salary: $80,500, 10-year job growth: 46%.

(April ‘06 Money magazine http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/) • 5 of the 12 fastest growing jobs in US are CS jobs, projected to increase between 30-54% between 2004 and 2014 http://www.bls.gov/emp/emptab21.htm

• Average starting salary: $50K (Money Magazine, Nov. and Feb. 2004)

And yet…

• 60% decline between the Fall of 2000 and 2004 in the number of freshman CS majors (HERI/UCLA quoted in May 2005 Computing Research News) • Job growth + smaller pool of CS grads =

And yet…

• 60% decline between the Fall of 2000 and 2004 in the number of freshman CS majors (HERI/UCLA quoted in May 2005 Computing Research News) • Job growth + smaller pool of CS grads =

Opportunity!

• Total students at UIC ____?

• Undergraduate class size in CS ___?

UIC Highlights

• Avg. CS Undergrad. class size: 25 • Tot. students in CS: 380 (180 + 200) • Largest university in Chicago: 25,000 students 16,000 undergrads • Largest Med. school in US • World’s most powerful magnet • Ranks higher than Purdue, Michigan State, and Indiana in terms of NSF Federal R&D

Undergraduate Tuition Cost per Year

$35,000 $30,000 $25,000 $20,000 $15,000 $10,000 $5,000 $0 UIC UIUC DePaul IIT Loyola Milw. Eng.

U of C NU Series1 $9,802 $11,832 $20,900 $22,218 $23,900 $23,955 $31,629 $31,644

School

Mar. ‘06: Robotics Competition

Univ. IL Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

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Research Examples…

EVL: Pioneers in Computer Graphics

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.

LambdaVision 100 Million Pixel Display

11x5 LCDs 17ft wide Driven by 30 Opterons Used for Geoscience & Biomedical Imaging

Interdisciplinary Research: Learning Technologies

Who`s Who?

(Tom Moher)

Wireless networked PocketPC (one per child) toggles color of one (unidentified) “pixel” on screen

Who’s Who Learning

(Tom Moher)

Trial 1 2 Elapsed time (minutes) 32:47 3:54 Average button presses per child 495 11

Roomquake Earthquake Simulation

Investigators: Tom Moher, Computer Science; Jennifer Wiley, Psychology; Louis Gomez, Learning Sciences (Northwestern University) Prime Grant Support: National Science Foundation

Thanks!

Thanks!

Who Should Apply?

• Students interested in being

developers

, not just consumers of computer technology. Avg. ACT: 25 • Open House dates: Oct. 9, 2006 (Mon, Columbus Day) Nov. 10, 2006 (Fri, Veterans Day) Feb. 19, 2007 (Mon, President's Day) Mar. 5, 2007 (Mon, Pulaski Day) • Contact: Email: [email protected] Phone: Elena or Santhi at 312-413-4950 • www.cs.uic.edu

What Will I Study?

Core Curriculum

Course Intro. to Computing CS 101 Intro. to Programming Data Structures and Discrete Mathematics I Data Structures and Discrete Mathematics II Computer Arch. I: Logic and Comp. Structures Languages and Automata Computer Ethics Software Design Computer Arch. II: Hardware Software Interface Practicum in C. S. Oral Presentations Operating Systems Concepts and Design Computer Algorithms I 102 201 202 266 301 335 340 366 376 385 401 Systems Soft. Eng. 101 101 102 201 102 201 202 266 301 335 202 266 301 335 340 366 376 385 366 376 385 401

ECE 225 Circuit Analysis 469 Computer Systems Design

Software Engineering I Software Engineering II IE 342 Probability and Statistics for Engineers

ECE 225 469

440 442 IE 342

Electives

Software Engineering I & II, Object-Oriented Languages and Environments, Programming Language Design Introduction to Networking, Distributed Object Programming Using Middleware, Design and Implementation of Network Protocols, Networked Operating Systems Programming User Interface Design and Programming, Multimedia Computing, Computer Graphics Advanced Computer Architecture, Computer Systems Design, Compiler Design, Database Systems Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision I, Natural Language Processing Introduction to Symbolic Computation, Codes and Cryptography, Numerical Analysis, Computational Geometry, Linear and Non-Linear Programming Undergraduate Design/Research

Rankings

US News & World Report CS 2007 rankings: Rank out of top 108 schools: 5. Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign 18. Purdue 34. Univ. of Chicago 40. Northwestern

58. UIC

?. IIT (not ranked in top 71) ?. DePaul (not ranked in top 71) ?. Loyola (not ranked in top 71)