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

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 25 th 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 $46,870 Columbia 45,724 Yale 40,920 Penn 40,617 Chicago 39,792 MIT 39,726 Cornell 35,930 JHU 34,235 Stanford 31,932 Brown 27,812 Rochester 27,115 Dartmouth 26,590