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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 UW’s sophomore class)
Thomas Carlson, Computer Science ‘02, 1999-2000 UW Junior Medalist (top
student in UW’s junior class) and 2002 UW Dean’s Medal for the Sciences (top
graduating science student)
Dan Bjorkegren, Computer Science ’05, 2002-03 UW Freshman Medalist (top
student in UW’s freshman class)
Erin Earl, Computer Science ’03, 2003 UW Dean’s Medal for the Arts (top
graduating arts student)
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)
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
14 Sloan Research
Fellowship recipients
5 NSF Presidential
Faculty Fellow /
Presidential Early
Career Awards
3 Packards
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 R&D support
5th nationally in licensing revenue
9th nationally in private giving
Simultaneous
Multithreading
Etch
Safeware
Engineering
Corporation
UW is remarkably free of
barriers
Multi-disciplinary work is easy
CSE strives to be totally free of barriers
Horizontally: heterogeneous offices, no rigidlydefined “research groups,” lots of true cosupervision
Vertically: research groups include undergrads,
grads, postdocs, faculty; minimal hierarchy
among the faculty or between faculty and
students
We’ve got terrific
undergraduate majors
(in reasonable numbers)
Multiple President’s and
Dean’s 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
Blizzard-free since 2/17/01
Riot-free since 2/27/01
Earthquake-free since 2/28/01
Boeing-free since 3/21/01
Kingdome-free since 3/26/01
365 days of sun each year
Housed in the spectacular new Paul G.
Allen Center for CSE
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
atrium
offices
lower level: labs
labs
top level: public space
services
The bottom line
Seattle is a great
place to be doing
computer science
UW CSE is committed to student
success