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Department of Computer Science

Detailed summary of April 15, 2004, meeting featuring department status, enrollment, research, challenges, and improvements. Includes statistics on students, activities, alumni outreach, and current challenges.

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Department of Computer Science

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  1. Department of Computer Science Engineering Council Meeting April 15, 2004 Henning Schulzrinne

  2. Overview • State of the Department • enrollment, new faculty • Academic program reform • Research • Computing facilities • Student life • Visibility • Alumni outreach • Improvements in administration • Challenges

  3. RESEARCH Interacting with Humans (7) Interacting with the Physical World (9) Making Sense of Data (9) Systems (10) Computer Science Theory (7) Designing Digital Systems (3)

  4. Enrollments • 183 MS students • 113 PhD students • 427 PhD applications for Fall 2004 • Undergraduate classes (approximate): • (only counting seniors) • SEAS: 120 • CC: 30 • General Studies: 20 • CC contrentrators: 20 • Computer engineering: 50 • Has been relatively stable, despite decreases outside Columbia

  5. Student life • Attempts at improving feeling of departmental cohesion • Very active ACM and WICS (women in Computer Science) organizations • Lounge as central social hub and “bump space” • projector for impromptu meetings and presentations • coffee hour • movie club • but distribution across two buildings • Paula Ryan organizing social events for undergraduates and MS students

  6. Outreach and visibility • Newsletter (CS@CU) twice a year • mailed to top-25 CS faculty, chairs, etc. • Announcements of new faculty hires sent (card) • Mailing list for events and accomplishments

  7. Alumni • Working on new website for alumni • job listings • contact and searching • Friendster/Orkut-style social networking • alice@alum.cs. • Outreach for 25th anniversary celebration

  8. Administrative improvements • Common data store and web interface for departmental management • MICE • Now handling all graduate student and faculty applications in-house • in-house development • some teething pains, but generally well received

  9. Challenges • High student cost • Challenges for Computer Science in general: • external perception of field and career prospects • fewer Asian graduate applicants (visa issues)

  10. Statistics: PhD Student Cost (2000) Princeton $46,870Columbia 45,724Yale 40,920Penn 40,617Chicago 39,792MIT 39,726Cornell 35,930JHU 34,235Stanford 31,932Brown 27,812Rochester 27,115Dartmouth 26,590

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