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Discovering Excellence in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley

Explore the top-notch academic programs and distinguished faculty in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at UC Berkeley. Uncover the strong coupling between EE and CS and the groundbreaking research areas, including sensor networks, complexity theory, and rapid prototyping. Experience the rich culture of Berkeley and the hands-on approach to learning, encompassing disciplines like integrated circuits, software systems, web applications, and more. Witness the legacy of innovation and expertise that shapes the future of technology. Rise above the ordinary and embrace the extraordinary at UC Berkeley.

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Discovering Excellence in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley

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  1. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC BerkeleyView from the top ... ... and to the future. Carlo H. Séquin Associate Dean, College of Engineering former Chair, Computer Science Division

  2. You are here!

  3. Living in Berkeley “Berkeley – the Athens of the West – is arguably the world’s best place to live.” New York Times • Fabulous restaurants, theatre, parks, scenery, weather • Culture: a community of independent thought, nonconformity New York Times “The campus of the University of California at Berkeley in springtime is about as close to Shangri-La as most mortals are likely to get.” New York Times

  4. University of California, Berkeley Times Higher Education Supplement Worldwide University Ranking: Academic Reputation1. Berkeley2. Harvard National Research Council Survey of Graduate Programs: 1. Berkeley: 97% depts top 10 2. MIT/Harvard: 87%

  5. EECS Academic Reputation • US News & World Report, Rankings 2008/09: • Computer Science Programs(only grad programs ranked): • Berkeley / MIT / Stanford (3-way tie) • Electrical Engineering Programs: • Undergraduate: • MIT 2.Berkeley 3. Stanford Graduate: 1. MIT 2.Berkeley / Stanford

  6. Our EECS Facultyis Extremely Distinguished: 2 National Medals of Science 3 ACM Turing Awards (“Nobel Prize” of CS) 3 IEEE Medals of Honor (“Nobel Prize” of EE) 7 Members of National Academy of Sciences 37 Members of National Academy of Engineering 14 Fellows of American Academy of Arts & Sciences 16 Sloan Foundation Fellowships 1 MacArthur “Genius” Award 12 Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Awards

  7. … who teach undergraduate courses! Contrary to urban legends: • Every faculty member teaches undergraduates! • Teaching quality matters a lot to us;every course is surveyed; student opinion counts! • Many undergraduates get involved in research early in their stay at Berkeley. • Every undergraduate has an individual faculty advisor.

  8. The UC Berkeley EECS Department Cory Hall Soda Hall CITRIS

  9. Active Areas in EECS Strong coupling between EE and CS: In 1980’s we had strongest IC-CAD program anywhere !  RISC, SOAR, SPARC, RAID

  10. RISC I & II (1982),first microprocessors built at a University

  11. Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center Pioneered micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) ~ “3-dimensional integrated circuits” This center is more than 20 years old and has more than 35 member companies. Accelerometer technology used in all airbag systems worldwide comes from Berkeley.

  12. Sensor Motes • Small systems combining: a computer, networking infrastructure, and various sensors: • heat • light • sound • pressure • chemicals

  13. Wind Response Of Golden Gate Bridge Fire Response Building Comfort; Smart Alarms Vineyards Sensor Networks: Instrumenting the World Great Duck Island Redwoods Elder Care Factories Soil monitoring

  14. Systems Research at Berkeley • Ingres, one of the first two relational database systems [Stonebraker, Rowe, and Wong, 70s] • Berkeley UNIX – virtual memory, TCP/IP, software tools [Fabry, Ferrari, Graham, Joy et al, 70s - 80s] • Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) [Patterson, Séquin, late 70s, early 80s] • Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) [Katz, Patterson, Ousterhout, late 80s] • Network of Workstations and scalable web services [Culler, Brewer etc, mid 90s] • Sensor Networks, TinyOS, TinyDB [Pister, Culler, 00s] • PlanetLab [Culler, Shenker, early 00s] • The next Internet (GENI etc.) • Manycore parallel architecture (PAR-Lab)

  15. Complexity Theory at Berkeley • 1936: Alan Turing (UK) defines the Turing Machine— an elementary computing device; • Extended Church-Turing thesis: every possible computing device is essentially equivalent to a Turing machine. • 1971/72: Steve Cook and Dick Karp develop complexity theory; define NP-complete problems (computable in principle but intractable in practice). • Famous “P vs NP” question — one of seven major open problems in all of Mathematics • ~1980: Manuel Blum and students Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali develop foundations for secure cryptography (an application of complexity!) • 1994: Umesh Vazirani and student Ethan Bernstein disprove the Church-Turing thesis;— quantum computers are intrinsically more powerful!

  16. FDM Rapid Prototyping Machineused in our modeling classes. Also: Focus on Building Things ! • Integrated circuits • Prototype computers • Software systems • Web applications • Mechanical gadgets  CAD/CAM and Rapid Prototyping

  17. “Pax Mundi 2” (Kansas City, 2007) 5-inch FDM maquette 10-foot bronze sculpture

  18. Creation of the Eurographics Award Trophy Carlo H. Séquin EECS Computer Science Division University of California, Berkeley

  19. Soda Hall 1988 • Developed complete 3D model(exterior and interior)to debug our design. Combine research with practical problems that need to be solved

  20. Berkeley Architectural Walkthru • Interactive walkthru model; • These techniques are now used in many video games.

  21. RAD-Lab (constructed 2006)

  22. RAD-Lab ... a very popular place

  23. RAD-Lab • Professors are close to students Prof. Randy Katz

  24. PAR-Lab (projected June 2008)

  25. OK, so what’s the BAD news? The worst thing about having been at Berkeley is that you can never be really happy anywhere else.” Prof. Shafi Goldwasser, MIT

  26. BERKELEY ? Good Choice !! • Great climate • Great campus • Great people • Great students • Great faculty • Interesting diverse research ...lots of exciting stuff going on ...not just in EECS, but in COE, and CITRIS

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