University of WashingtonComputer Science & Engineering

Ed LazowskaBill & Melinda Gates Chair in

Computer Science

January 2001

At the Center of Change

The new economy is “knowledge-based”

The “content” of high-tech products is intellectual rather than physical (cf. software) The Washington Software Alliance

estimates that 75% of the jobs in Washington’s software industry require a Bachelors or Masters degree

But Washington ranks in the bottom ten states in the nation in our capacity to grant these degrees

Requires a multi-faceted approach

Invest in our research institutions -- the #1 factor in high-tech success

Increase Bachelors capacity statewide -- both progressively and radically

Continue to strengthen community college technology programs

Continue to increase distance learning, learning-on-demand, lifelong learning

Build the K-12 pipeline -- with equity!

UW Computer Science & Engineering:30+ years of leadership

Ranked among the top ten programs in the nation since the 1980s

Brought ARPANET and modern VLSI design to the region

Early alums (co-)founded Aldus, Visio, IC Designs, Dialogic, Digital Research, Pixar ...

Past decade: Rapid acceleration

Experiential learningInterdisciplinary and undergraduate

researchEntrepreneurshipUsing educational technology to

reach beyond our “captive audience”

Experiential learning

Capstone Design Courses: student-defined multidisciplinary integrative team projects

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ArtMusicArchitectureCSE

PixarPDIILMEA

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Nature is telling us something...

F Can add numbers together innanosecondsí Hopelessly beyond the

capabilities of brains

F Can understand speech triviallyí Far ahead of digital computersí …and Moore’s law will end

Interdisciplinary/undergrad research

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Problem: How to study neural basis of behavior

F Measure neural signaling in intact animalsí Implant a microcontroller in Tritonia brain

F Tritonia is a model organismí Well studied neurophysiologyí 500µm neurons; tolerant immune responseí Work-in-progress

B. Brain with implanted chip: Dorsal view

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Images courtesy James Beck & Russell Wyeth

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Silicon synapses can mimic biology

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Mossy-fiber EPSC amplitudes plotted over time, before and after theinduction of LTP. Brief tetanic stimulation was applied at the time in- dicated. From Barrionuevo et al., J. Neurophysiol. 55:540-550, 1986.

Synapse transistor source currents plotted over time, before andafter we applied a tetanic stimulation of 2×105 coincident (row & column) pulses, each of 10µs duration, at the time indicated.

F Local, autonomous learning

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Many potential spinoffs

F Example: Multilevel EEPROMí Synapse transistor “learns” a

multibit memory valueí Stores 4-bits/synapse

F Other work in progressí Learning chipsí Adaptive signal-processing chipsí Adaptive feature recognizers

One of dozens of interdisciplinary research activities Just within the biology space, CSE has

ongoing activities withUW Molecular Biotechnology, UW Genetics,

Zymogenetics, Rosetta: genomicsCell Systems Initiative: embedded systems

for invisible instrumentation of biotech labs; knowledge representation and datamining of experimental data

Institute for Systems Biology: graphics, databases, high-performance computing

Simultaneous Multithreading

SafewareEngineeringCorporation

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Entrepreneurship

Educational outreach

Online courses: self-sustaining credit and non-credit; community college; K-12 (with Office of Educational Outreach) vide

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DISC -- Distributed Computer Science Department UW, MIT, CMU, Berkeley, Brown Microsoft, Intel

Learning Federation -- a Sematech-style research consortium to catalyze a revolution in teaching and learning UW, CMU, Berkeley, Brown Microsoft, Washington Advisory Group

Instrumental role in K-20 Network (along with UW Computing & Communications, State Dept. of Information Services)

The finest students at UW -- the finest students in the nation

Emma Brunskill, Computer Engineering ‘00: 2001

Rhodes Scholar

Kevin Zatloukal, Computer Science ‘01: 2001 Computing Research Association “Outstanding Undergraduate” national winner

Chris Twigg, Computer Science ‘02: 2000 UW President’s Sophomore Medalist

Thomas Carlson, Computer Science ‘02: 2000 UW President’s

Junior Medalist

William Chan, Ph.D. ’00, and Mike Ernst, Ph.D. ’00: Two of the three students in the nation recognized in the 2001 ACM Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award competition

Stefan Savage, Ph.D. ‘01: Faculty offers from MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon

UW is the nation’s #1 supplier of new college graduates to Microsoft

UW is also the nation’s #1 supplier to Intel (among Intel’s “focus schools”)

UW is the predominate supplier to many outstanding regional firms

From:Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 9:14 AMTo: Ed LazowskaCc:Subject: UW Program

Ed,

A note from the other side of the fence. I want to thank you for the qualityyou've built into the UW CS program. We have a large number of UW-trainedengineers at [Company]. The group includes undergrads ([A], [B]), Masters[C], [D], and [E]), and a Ph.D. ([F]). And, of course, we have [G].

These students rock. Their training gives them a tremendous boost relative toother engineers. This is especially valuable to us because of the technicalnature of our product. They have a tremendous work ethic too. They're amongthe most dedicated and hard working of our employees. They work wellindependently and are quite generative. That is, they almost always giveback more than was asked for. Finally, they're great team players. They helptheir colleagues without a second thought. These are the best people tobuild an organization around.

These are smart people. You clearly did a good job selecting them. They arealso well-prepared by your program to have a big impact and to be successful.

Thanks. More please.

[X]VP, Engineering[Company]

A faculty commitment to excellence

Top-ten ranking by the National Research Council

UW Brotman Award for Instructional Excellence

3 UW Distinguished Teaching Awards

UW Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award

UW Annual Faculty LecturerUW Outstanding Public

Service AwardSeattle Alliance for

Education A+ Partnership Award

R1edu Educational Technology Award

7 Sloan Research Fellowship recipients

5 NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow / Presidential Early Career Awards

8 NSF CAREER Awards

8 Fulbright recipients2 Guggenheim recipients17 Fellows in major professional

societies

Exemplifying change at UW