State of the State of the DepartmentDepartment

26 August 199826 August 1998

Randy H. Katz, Chair

EECS DepartmentUniversity of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-1770

Goals of this Goals of this AdministrationAdministration

• Continue to hire outstanding young faculty able to lead us into the fastest growing areas of EE and CS in the next century

• Accelerate our ascent to become the #1 Department of EE + CS

• Make more symmetric the relationship between EE and CS

David Culler, VC Computing & NetworkingJoe Kahn, VC Grad Matters

Mike Lieberman, VC UG MattersCarlo Sequin, VC CS Admin

Administrative TeamAdministrative Team

Randy Katz, Chair, EECSAndy Neureuther, Assoc. Chair, EECS

Shankar Sastry,Director, ERL

ILP ProgramJan Rabaey,

Chenming HuCo-Directors

Vision StatementVision Statement

“If you don’t know where you are going, all winds are favorable.”

Vision StatementVision Statement• Berkeley will be the most exciting place to

perform high impact research while learning about the latest developments in the rapidly developing field of EE and CS

• We will become #1, as measured by:– the quality and impact of our research– the excellent preparation of our students for

leadership– the exceptional value of our service to the state

and the nation– the dedication of our departmental staff to

outstanding service, and our commitment to recognize everyone's contribution to our success.

Vision StatementVision Statement

• We will achieve this by:– Leveraging our unique ability to collaborate across

traditional disciplinary boundaries– Exploiting our close proximity to the World’s greatest

concentration of high technology industry– Hiring and nuturing outstanding and energetic young

faculty, able to lead us into the new research areas of the 21st Century

– Retaining high selectivity within our graduate program, choosing students with the potential to be leaders in the field

– Continuing to attract the most academically accomplished undergraduate students on the Berkeley campus

– Encouraging a work environment that is oriented towards service quality and which appreciates the contributions of all members of the EECS/ERL staff family

The Information AgeThe Information Age

“Is this a great time, or what?” MCI Internet Ad

The Information AgeThe Information Age

• Electronics + computing = “information technology”• Technologies crucial for manipulating large amounts of

information in electronic formats– Hardware: Semiconductors, optoelectronics, high performance

computing and networking, satellites and terrestrial wireless communications devices;

– Software: Computer programs, software engineering, software agents;

– Hardware-Software Combination: Speech and vision recognition, compression technologies;

• Information industries: assemble, distribute, and process information in a wide range of media, e.g., telephone, cable, print, and electronic media companies

• $3 trillion world wide industry within ten years

Importance of Importance of Information Technology Information Technology

to Californiato California• $35 billion in 1995 sales (vs. $90 billion nationwide)• Home to:

– 27% of computer manufacturing industry employment– 50% of computer peripheral industry employment– 37% of nation’s venture capital– computers/electronics sector employment: 176,400– software sector employment: 104,000– telecomms/info tech employed: 329,000

• Approx. $28 billion for information technology R&D• State’s exports:

– $58.9 billion, more than half of California’s total exports!

• Bay region:– 93,000 employed in computers/electronics, 80,000 in telecomms,

59,000 in multimedia, 30,000 software jobs in Santa Clara county alone (45,000 new jobs statewide between 90-95)!

– San Jose beats NY as highest average wage city in country

California Means InternetCalifornia Means Internet

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State

MICRO

DARPA

Other DoD

NSF

Other Fed

Industry

Other

Research Funding Research Funding (1995-96)(1995-96)

Approx. $28M

$8.3$4.6

$4.6$5.5

$3.1

$1.2

$0.5

$0.1

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MICRO

DARPA

Other DoD

NSF

Other Fed

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pprox. $44M

$16.7

$11.1

$4.5$6.9

$2.7

$1.0$0.5

$0.1

Research Funding (1996-Research Funding (1996-97)97)

Other DoD = Air Force, Army, Office of Naval Research (ONR), etc.

Other Federal = DOE, NASA, National Institutes of Health (NIH), etc.

What Makes Berkeley What Makes Berkeley SpecialSpecial

• Unique academic culture of excellence & collaboration• Excellent theory group and large-scale

interdisciplinary experimental research projects– Architecture: RISC, RAID, NOW, IRAM, CNS-1, BRASS– Berkeley Digital Library Project: Environmental Data– BSAC: sensors, actuators, MEMs– CAD: Modeling, Simulation, Synthesis, Verification– InfoPad: Portable Multimedia Terminal– Lithography and TCAD– Networking: BARWAN, ICEBERG, MASH, NINJA, Plateau– Parallel Systems: Multipole, ScaLAPACK, Split-C, Titanium– PATH Intelligent Highway Project, FAA Center of Excellence– Robotics/Intelligent Systems– ...

Berkeley Tradition of Berkeley Tradition of Experimental Computing Experimental Computing

Systems ResearchSystems ResearchEvaluateexisting technologyto understandits weaknesses

Deployunderstand implementationcomplexities and sources ofperformance gain/loss

Time Travelusing today’s tooexpensive technologyto prototypetomorrow’s systems

Designnew computingsystemsarchitectures

Track Record of Track Record of Research that Research that LeadsLeads

IndustryIndustry• Spice circuit simulator plus CAD industry• Berkeley UNIX• Ingres Relational Database• Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC)• Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)• Large Scale Cluster Computing (NOW)• Berkeley Microlab• Berkeley MEMS/Sensor & Actuator Center• Digital Libraries

Major New Research Major New Research InitiativesInitiatives

•Berkeley Wireless Research Center– Professor Robert Brodersen– Focus on single chip radios

•SIA MARCO Design Center– Professor Richard Newton– Design for deep submicron technologies

•Millennium/SimMillennium– Professor David Culler– Harness NOW technology for computational

science and engineering across the Berkeley campus

Major New Research Major New Research InfrastructureInfrastructure

• Leading award in UC Smart Program for Microlab upgrade (“Microlab 2002”) and related research on “Small Feature Reproducibility”

• $6 million in Intel equipment for Millennium Project

• $4.9 million in Bay Networks/Nortel equipment credits for gigabit ethernet and other high performance infrastructure in EECS and as part of Millennium Project

Student and Faculty Student and Faculty StatisticsStatistics

• Faculty– EE: 40.75 FTE– CS: 36 FTE– Architecture, CAD,

Signal Processing, Circuits faculty “overlap”

– 78.75 authorized FTE growing to 80.75 FTE

• Undergraduate Program

– 893.5 (515 in CS, 378.5 in EE) in B.S. program

– 212 in B.A. program– 1105.5 total (66%

CS, 34% EE)

• Graduate Program

– 300 EE – 200 CS

Largest department on campusSize Does Matter!

Recent Faculty Recent Faculty RecognitionRecognition

• NAE (27)– Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincetteli

• Sloan Foundation Fellow– Joe Hellerstein

• ACM Fellows (12)– Larry Rowe, Carlo Sequin

• ACM Dissertation Award (2)

– Steven McCanne

• NSF Career Awards– King, McCanne, Tse

• SIAM von Neumann Lecturer– Velvel Kahan

• Chancellor’s Professor (3)– Susan Graham, Chenming Hu

• IEEE Fellows (52)– Anantharam, Chang-Hasnain

• Okawa Prize (2)– John Whinnery

• Sigma Xi Ferst Award– Chenming Hu

• IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award– Roger Howe, Richard Muller

• IEEE Medal of Honor– Don Pederson

• Van Valkenberg Award– Leon Chua

College of Engineering College of Engineering GrowthGrowth

• Demand for information technology skills far exceeds supply in California

• University administration and Gov. Wilson targets student and faculty growth in computer science and engineering

• Thrust at Berkeley is Bioengineering, Computer Science, and Engineering Science (Computational Engineering) across the College

• EECS to accept 140 additional students in return for 6-8 new FTE over next 4 years

Faculty GrowthFaculty Growth

1997-98•Merrick Furst: Theoretical CS, Director

International Computer Science Institute•Michael Jordan: Machine Learning (joint

with Stat)•Anthony Joseph: Mobile Computing•Kurt Keutzer: Computer-Aided Design•John Kubiatowicz: Computer Architectures

Faculty GrowthFaculty Growth

1998-99•Doug Tygar: Security/E-Commerce (joint

with SIMS)•George Necula, Compilers/Verification•Jonathan Shewchuk, Scientific Computing•Digital Signal Processing•Theoretical Computer Scientist

Faculty FTE BreakdownFaculty FTE Breakdown• EE

– Signal Processing: 4.5– Communication: 3.0– Networks: 2.5– CAD: 3.5– ICs: 4.0– Solid State & MEM’s: 4.5– Process Tech. & Man.: 5.0– Optoelectronics: 5.0– EM & Plasma: 2.25– Controls: 3.0– Robotics: 2.0– Bioelectronics: (1.3)– Power 1.5– TOT: 40.75 (+1.3 P-in-R)

• CS– Sci Comp: 2.5– Architecture: 5.0– Software: 5.5– Theory: 6.0– OS/Nets: 4.5– MM/UI/Graphics: 4.0– AI: 5.5– DB: 1.0– TOT: 34 + 2 SOE Lecturers

– DEPARTMENT: 76.75 FTE78.75 Authorized (1998)80.75 Authorized (1999)3 New + 2 Continue (+ 1 Retirement)

Department’s Strategic Department’s Strategic PlanPlan

• Human Centered Systems– User Interfaces: Image,

graphics, audio, video, speech, natural language

– Information Management & Intelligent Processing

– Embedded and Network-connected computing

» Hardware building blocks: DSP, PGA, Comms

» High performance, low power devices, sensors, actuators

» OS and CAD» Ambient/Personalized

Computing

• Software Engineering– Design, development,

evolution, and maintenance of high-quality complex software systems

» Specification & verification

» Real time software» Scalable algorithms» Evolution &

maintenance of legacy code

Last Year’s High Priority Last Year’s High Priority Recruiting AreasRecruiting Areas

• EE Immediate– Control of complex,

distributed, multi-agent systems

– Digital system design for high performance systems

Signal Processing

• EE Near Term– Bioengineering, emphasis

on imaging or bioelectronics

– CAM/CIM, emphasis on semiconductor manufacturing

– Integrated circuit devices

• CS Immediate– Graphics/Multimedia, emphasis on

visualization or animation– Information Processing &

Management, emphasis on data management/digital libraries

Theoretical Computer Science, emphasis on algorithms

• CS Near Term– AI, emphasis on knowledge

representation or natural language– Bioinformatics– Human-Computer Interaction Large-scale software systems

Space: The Final Space: The Final FrontierFrontier

• Making the (quantitative) case for space– Inventory of existing space utilization plus

extrapolate space needs over next 5-10 years» New kinds of research activities: wet labs, expanded

Microlab, computer rooms, space for industrial visitors, postdocs

» New kinds of teaching activities: executive education, production facilities, distance learning classrooms

» Changing nature of student body (e.g., instructional computer labs versus instrumentation/hardware labs)

» Accommodating planned faculty and student growth, retirements/emeriti space

– Campus-level intensive space scrutiny next year; must be prepared!

Software Jobs Go Software Jobs Go BeggingBegging

• “America’s New Deficit: The Shortage of Information Technology Workers,” Department of Commerce– Job growth exceeds the available talent– 1994-2005: 1 million new information technology workers will

be needed

• “Help Wanted: The IT Workforce Gap at the Dawn of a New Century,” ITAA– 190,000 unfilled positions for IT workers nationwide– Between 1986 and 1994, bachelor degrees in CS fell from

42,195 to 24,200 (43%)

• Implications for sustaining the high technology boom in California and the U.S.?

Accelerating Demand Accelerating Demand for Our Graduatesfor Our Graduates

•1996–BS: $44,000–MS: $55,000–PhD: $70,000

•1997–BS: $47,000–MS: $62,000–PhD: $80,000

UG Degree History at UG Degree History at BerkeleyBerkeley

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A New Vision for EECSA New Vision for EECS

“If we want everything to stay as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.”Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957)

Old View of EECSOld View of EECS

EEphysicscircuitssignalscontrol

PhysicalWorld

CSalgorithms

programmingcomp systems

AI

SyntheticWorld

New View of EECSNew View of EECS

EEcomponents

CSalgorithms

EECScomplex/electronics

systems

ProcessingDevicesMEMSOptoelectronicsCircuits

CADSim & Viz

ProgrammingDatabasesCS Theory

Intelligent Sys & ControlCommunications Sys Intelligent Displays

Reconfigurable SystemsComputing Systems

MultimediaUser Interfaces

Robotics/VisionInfoPad

IRAM

Signal ProcControl

AISoftware

EECS

Info Mgmt& Systems

CognitiveScience

ComputationalSci & EngBioSci/Eng

Biosensors &BioInfo

MaterialsScience/

ElectronicMaterials

PhysicalSciences/

Electronics

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Control

DesignSci

Curriculum RedesignCurriculum Redesign

• EECS 20N: Structure & Interpretation of Systems and signals

• Every EECS student will take:– Introduction to Signals and Systems– Introduction to Electronics– Introduction to Computing (3 course sequence)

• Computing emerges as a tool as important as mathematics and physics in the engineering curriculum

– More freedom in selecting science and mathematics courses– Biology becoming increasing important

Five Undergraduate Five Undergraduate ProgramsPrograms

• Program I: Electronics– Electronics– Integrated Circuits– Physical Electronics– Micromechanical Systems

• Program II: Communications, Networks, Systems– Computation– Bioelectronics– Circuits and Systems

• Program III: Computer Systems• Program IV: Computer Science• Program V: General

ConclusionsConclusions

•“Is this a great time, or what?”– New interdisciplinary research– Continued support for hiring new faculty– High demand for our students

•Challenges are those of success– Exploding student demand– Developing a new, compelling vision of EE and CS– MIT, Stanford are the competition

•Entering the 21st Century with new strength, vigor, and sense of mission