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Why Computer Science & Engineering

Ma6ers

Ed Lazowska

Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering Founding Director, University of Washington eScience InsGtute

h6p://www.cs.washington.edu/FoundaGonBoard

Smartphones and ubiquitous connecGvity

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Personal sensing

Fitbit One

iPhone 6 Apple Watch

Microso9 Band

High-‐bandwidth streaming media

Recommender systems

Improved safety through vehicular automaGon

Speech understanding

Cortana

Siri Alexa

Real-‐Gme language translaGon

Skype Translator

Image analysis

Microso9 Photosynth

Picasa Face Movie

Face recogniGon

DisrupGve transportaGon services

Car2Go

Energy & Sustainability

Security, Privacy, & Safety

Advancing the Developing World

Medicine & Global Health

Education

Scientific Discovery

Transportation

Neural Engineering

Elder Care Accessibility

Interacting with the Physical World: “The Internet of Things”

mobile computing

robotics

computer vision

machine learning

human computer interaction

data science

sensors

natural language

processing CORE CSE AI, systems,

theory, languages, etc.

cloud computing

Technology Policy and Societal Implications

A 21st century view of Computer Science: A field unique in its societal impact

•  Ranked among the top 10 programs in the naHon (of more than 200) –  MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Illinois, Cornell, Washington, Princeton,

Georgia Tech, …

•  Two undergraduate programs –  Computer Science (College of Arts & Sciences) –  Computer Engineering (College of Engineering)

•  ~360 degrees per year –  ~235 Bachelors (growing to ~320) –  ~100 Masters –  ~25 Ph.D.

•  ~5,000 students per year in our intro courses

UW CSE: An Overview

•  Extraordinary students –  30% of the UW Class Medalists since 2000 have been CSE majors

•  Our “fair share” would be 2%

–  3 of the past 6 Graduate School Medal recipients

•  A deep commitment to providing a top-‐Her educaHon –  5 UW DisHnguished Teaching Awards –  Inaugural UW Brotman Award for InstrucHonal Excellence –  2 UW DisHnguished Graduate Mentor Awards –  Inaugural Excellence in PromoHng Women in Undergraduate

CompuHng Award from the NaHonal Center for Women & InformaHon Technology

UW CSE: An Overview

•  We produce graduates who can design and build stuff –  Emphasis on teamwork and design –  80% of undergraduates do at least one internship –  40% of undergraduates parHcipate in faculty-‐guided research

•  #1 school in the naHon in students recognized in the past 10 years in the CompuHng Research AssociaHon “Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers Award” compeHHon

–  A top-‐5 supplier of students to Amazon, Google, and Microso9 •  Along with MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, and Carnegie Mellon

–  The predominant supplier of new graduates to leading smaller firms headquartered here, and to the more than 50 Seaele engineering offices of leading tech firms headquartered elsewhere

UW CSE: An Overview

CSE is central to many of UW’s key interdisciplinary iniGaGves

•  The Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (an NSF Engineering Research Center)

•  The Center for Game Science (funded by the Gates FoundaHon and DARPA to create revoluHonary games for scienHfic discovery and for learning)

•  The eScience InsGtute (funded by the Moore, Sloan, Washington Research, and NaHonal Science FoundaHons to bring advances in data-‐intensive discovery to researchers campus-‐wide)

•  dub – “design-‐use-‐build” (a campus-‐wide collaboraHon that has made UW one of the top three insHtuHons in the naHon in human-‐computer interacHon)

•  Change (a campus-‐wide collaboraHon exploring how technology can improve the lives of underserved populaHons in low-‐income regions)

•  The Tech Policy Lab (a joint effort of CSE, the School of Law, and the InformaHon School, funded by Microso9)

•  GIX – the Global InnovaHon Exchange (a new kind of educaHon that is global, project-‐based, and integrates technology, design, and entrepreneurship)

•  Urban@UW (a campus-‐wide urban science collaboraHon)

•  The Intel Science and Technology Center for Pervasive CompuGng (led by UW, with researchers from Cornell, Georgia Tech, Rochester, Stanford, and UCLA)

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Student Demand: University of Washington CSE Introductory Course Enrollment

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Data from Table 2 of the report linked at h8p://www.wsac.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2013.11.16.Skills.Report.pdf

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High Demand Fields in WA State, Baccalaureate Level & Above WSAC/SBCTC/WTECB, October 2013

Employer Demand: Fields with Workforce Gaps in Washington, Baccalaureate Level & Above

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Data from the spreadsheet linked at h8p://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_102.htm

Employer Demand: US Job Growth in STEM fields, 2012-‐2022 Computer OccupaGons = 71% of all STEM

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•  At the heart of the modern university •  Nowhere more so than at the University of

Washington

•  At the heart of the modern world •  Nowhere more so than in the Puget Sound region

•  We need your support in order to respond to the extraordinary opportuniGes that lie ahead h6p://www.cs.washington.edu/FoundaGonBoard

Computer Science & Engineering

Wireless Power

Joshua Smith et al.

“A Taste of CSE”

Mobile Health & Sustainability Sensing

Shwetak Patel et al.


Technology for People with DisabiliGes

Richard Ladner et al.


Sensorimotor Assistance

Rajesh Rao et al.


Technology for the Developing World

Nicola Dell et al.



ComputaGonal Photography

Steve Seitz et al.

Games for Learning & for ScienGfic Discovery

Zoran Popovic et al.


Open House (cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, demos): Tuesday October 20, 5 p.m. – please join us!

•  At the heart of the modern university •  Nowhere more so than at the University of

Washington

•  At the heart of the modern world •  Nowhere more so than in the Puget Sound region

•  We need your support in order to respond to the extraordinary opportuniGes that lie ahead h6p://www.cs.washington.edu/FoundaGonBoard

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