New Head of CS from Berkeley

eddi137
Mon, 11 Jan 2016 19:36:17 +0000

From the article it looks like the University has some strategy on computer science.

“As part of a plan to greatly increase the scale, scope and impact of computer science research and education across the University community”

I sense the computer science (alongside molecular engineering) are two STEM focuses the University is catching up with its peers in the new century. Maybe its ambition is to make computer science a world class department much like math department?

Many people have observed and criticized that the University does not offer engineering disciplines for a long time. Actually it is not a bad idea to circle engineering from more theoretical fields. e.g., math/stats -> computer, physics/chemistry/biology->molecular engineering.

At this trajectory I think it may take less than 10 years for its computer department to become more respectable from respectable. I do not think it will challenge heavy weights like CMU, UCB any time soon.