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May 2012 Vol. 24/No. 3 NSF Leads Federal Big Data Initiative By Farnam Jahanian and Suzi Iacono On March 29, the White House tremendous potential in transforming to realize causality of events, many of which are included in the Office of Science and Technology Policy all areas of national priority.1 to enable prediction and to series Data Analytics: From Data to (OSTP) launched a federal Big Data The cornerstone of this initiative recommend action. Knowledge to Action, posted on the Research and Development Initiative is a joint NSF-NIH solicitation, Core • E-science collaboration environments: Computing Community Consortium (BDRDI). By improving our ability to Technologies and Techniques for Advancing To allow for broad communities (CCC) website.2 This series highlights extract knowledge and insights from Big Data Science & Engineering, or Big of scientists, engineers, and the importance of advances in big large and complex collections of digital Data. It aims to advance the core analysts to have access to diverse data to areas of national priority, data, this initiative promises to solve scientific and technological means data and the best inferential including healthcare, new biology, some of the Nation’s most pressing of managing, analyzing, visualizing, and visualization tools, a science and engineering, cyber and challenges—in science, education, and extracting useful information comprehensive “big data” national security, new transportation, government, medicine, commerce from large, diverse, distributed and cyberinfrastructure is necessary. education, and the smart grid. and national security—laying the heterogeneous data sets. Specifically, The Big Data program creates Several overview papers point out the foundations for U.S. competitiveness the program will focus on foundational enormous opportunities for creating challenges and opportunities as well for many decades to come. research in three areas: new knowledge from large-scale as the path from inchoate data to Across the U.S. government today, • Data collection and management: data across all disciplines. It is one discovery made possible through new agencies recognize that research and Novel approaches and new tools component in NSF’s long-term methods and approaches. education communities are undergoing are required to deal with massive strategy to address national big data Over a year ago, under the a profound transformation with the amounts of often heterogeneous challenges, which include advances auspices of the National Science use of large-scale, diverse, and high- and complex data coming from in foundational techniques and and Technology Council, OSTP resolution data sets that allow for multiple sources—such as those technologies to derive knowledge from chartered an interagency Big Data data-intensive decision-making at generated by observational systems data; cyberinfrastructure to manage, Senior Steering Group to develop a a level never before imagined. This in various sciences, simulations, curate and serve data to science and research, education, and infrastructure initiative will both help to accelerate and models across many scientific engineering research and education agenda as well as a plan for how the discovery and innovation, as well as fields, as well as those created in communities; new approaches to agencies can cooperate to achieve our support their transition into practice transactional and longitudinal education and workforce development; Nation’s long-term goals. The Big Data to benefit society. As the recent data systems in social and and a comprehensive program to committee is co-chaired by NSF and President’s Council of Advisors on commercial domains. support multi-disciplinary teams and NIH, with members from DARPA, Science and Technology (PCAST) 2010 • Data Analytics: Significant impacts communities to make advances in DOD OSD, DHS, DOE-Science, review of the Networking Information will result from advances in the complex grand challenge science HHS, NARA, NASA, NIST, NOAA, Technology Research and Development analysis, simulation, modeling, and engineering problems of a NSA, and USGS. The interagency (NITRD) program notes, the pipeline visualization, and interpretation to computation- and data-intensive world. initiative announced March 29 is the of data to knowledge to action has facilitate discovery of phenomena, The formulation of this initiative is culmination of the first year of a multi- the result of a thriving ecosystem that year effort. Inside CRN includes the research community, the To summarize, the Big Data private sector, and the science agencies initiative aims to accelerate the Expanding the Pipeline...... 2 Snowbird Preliminary Program...... 5 in the federal government. The Board Election Results...... 3 Taulbee Survey Results 2011-12...... 7 computing community significantly NSF Leads Federal Big Data Service Awards...... 4 Professional Opportunities...... 25 contributed to this initiative through Initiative - Continued on Page 3 a number of influential white papers, CRA Helps Deconstruct an iPad for Congress By Peter Harsha PAID In a series of briefings dating Association for the Advancement of university research does not supplant U.S. POSTAGE PERMIT NO. 993 NONPROFIT ORG. WASHINGTON, DC back to last fall for Members of Science, American Chemical Society, industry research, and vice versa; Congress and their staff, a set of APS Physics, Materials Research and that the research ecosystem in high-profile speakers from the Society, and Texas Instruments— the U.S. is fueled by the flow of science community, including a examined three key enabling people and ideas back and forth Nobel Laureate, made the case for technologies in the popular device: from universities, national labs and federal support of fundamental the chips that power it, the sensors industry, and this robust ecosystem research by highlighting the role of that allow it to know where it is has made the U.S. the world leader. federally supported research in the and what it is looking at, and the As a case study, he noted a 2003 development of key technologies innovative touchscreen and multi- National Academies review of the in Apple’s iPad, and what future touch gesture system. Speakers from development of 19 billion-dollar benefits that support may bring. academia, industry and government sub-sectors of the IT economy, all The briefings—sponsored by CRA, detailed the research that led to these of which had at some point in their in partnership with the Task Force technologies, but also focused on evolution received federal support for on American Innovation, Association where current research in those areas early stage scientific research, moving for Computing Machinery, American might lead. the area forward. “These technologies have enabled The same could be said of the game-changing capabilities,” said technologies in the iPad. Focusing on Luis von Ahn, Associate Professor of the chips in the iPad, Martin Izzard, Computer Science at Carnegie Vice President of Research at Texas Mellon University and the event Instruments, noted the differences moderator, “and without exception, between the original integrated they all bear the stamp of federal circuit developed in 1958 at Texas support for research.” Instruments and Fairchild and the In opening the briefings, von modern ARM processor that powers Ahn laid out the themes each the iPad. “The chip in the iPad has Luis von Ahn (left), Associate speaker would reiterate: that federal the same computing power as a Cray2 Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, investment supports long-term supercomputer from 1985—a computer explains the research roots of an research that often does not pay for that was as big as an industrial iPad to House Judiciary Chairman 5, 10, 15 years or more—but when it refrigerator, cost $40 million, and Lamar Smith (R-TX) as part of a does, those payoffs are spectacular; series of briefings sponsored by that fundamental research often CRA Helps Deconstruct an iPad- CRA 1828 L Street, NW Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 CRA. pays off in unexpected ways; that Continued on Page 4 Computing Research News May 2012

Expanding the Pipeline

Computing Research The National Girls Collaborative Project: Building the Capacity Association of STEM Practitioners to Develop a Diverse Workforce Board Officers By Karen Peterson Eric Grimson Chair Massachusetts Institute of Throughout the United States, Why it Works with other programs and encouraging Technology many initiatives are underway to NGCP helps organizations increase collaboration rather than competition. Laura Haas engage youth in science, technology, As a result of NGCP, 62 percent of Vice Chair their effectiveness in informing and IBM Almaden Research Center engineering, and mathematics encouraging girls to pursue STEM respondents in a 2010 annual survey of (STEM). There are also a large number programs registered in the NGCP program Martha E. Pollack careers by using a distinctive model Secretary of organizations seeking to increase that creates a large-scale impact by directory agreed or strongly agreed that they University of Michigan diversity and gender equity in STEM. combining: were more likely to share resources with Ronald Brachman The National Girls Collaborative another program, and 59 percent agreed Treasurer • Championship by industry leaders Yahoo! Labs Project (NGCP) occupies a unique • Collaboration at the grassroots or strongly agreed they were more likely to role among these activities in that level consider collaborating with another program Board Members it facilitates collaboration with all • Events and professional or organization because of NGCP. In Sarita Adve stakeholders focused on increasing development opportunities addition, 37 percent of respondents University of Illinois, diversity and engagement in STEM, • Mini-grant funding indicated that participating in the Urbana-Champaign connects them to girl-serving STEM • Research and dissemination of NGCP had a moderate or high Annie I. Antón programs, and provides access to impact on their level of collaboration North Carolina State University exemplary practices information and resources that with other programs. Seventy-seven William Aspray • Program information about University of Texas at Austin enhance the impact and effectiveness organizations engaged in percent of those attending a NGCP Carla Brodley of these initiatives. promoting STEM event followed up with somebody they Tufts University The NGCP collaborative model met at the event, most commonly to Alva Couch includes in-person and online Champions Board discuss ideas for collaboration or share Tufts University collaboration opportunities, mini- resources. Attendees specified that the NGCP is ‘championed’ by a Mary Czerwinski grants as an incentive for collaborative most valuable aspects of these events Microsoft Research prestigious group of professionals projects, and dissemination of were networking and meeting others Susan B. Davidson invested in closing the gender gap in research-based practices via an in their area who were involved in University of Pennsylvania STEM at all levels. These professionals, interactive Web site, Program similar work. The 2010 annual survey Mary Fernández who are NGCP’s Champions AT&T Labs Research Directory, live and archived results indicated that those who attended Board, represent companies and Limor Fix webcasts, and in-person professional at least one in-person NGCP event were organizations such as Microsoft, Intel development events. Via key partners, significantly more likely to have higher Society of Women Engineers, Google, Edward Fox NGCP disseminates high-quality mean levels of collaboration with other Virginia Tech National Center for Women & content and resources to its extensive STEM-related groups, rate the impact of Jean-Luc Gaudiot Information Technology, National network. Project activities are designed NGCP on their collaboration more highly, University of California, Irvine Alliance for Partnerships in Equity, to bring organizations together, and have more knowledge and likelihood of Brent T. Hailpern Afterschool Alliance, and Association IBM Almaden Research Center facilitate connections, encourage and collaborating with others. for Women in Science. Champions Mary Jean Harrold support collaborative projects, provide Board members connect NGCP on Georgia Institute of Technology targeted professional development, Events and Professional a national level to opportunities that H.V. Jagadish and disseminate exemplary practices. Development Opportunities University of Michigan benefit the project, spread the word NGCP has developed Norman Jouppi about NGCP activities in their realms, Each Collaborative hosts in-person Collaboratives in 36 states with the Hewlett Packard and support the project within their events, providing networking help of local convening organizations. Rangachar Kasturi own organizations. and professional development University of South Florida These local Collaboratives vary in opportunities for participants invested James Kurose focus areas and populations served, in providing K-12 STEM programming University of Massachusetts Collaboration but all have extensive networks of for girls. NGCP Collaboratives have Margaret Martonosi Numerous programs and initiatives organizations and individuals engaged hosted more than 100 events across Princeton University have focused on increasing gender in pursuing the common goal of the United States serving more than J Strother Moore equity in STEM fields; however, many University of Texas at Austin gender equity in STEM. Partially 5,500 participants. Recently, new of these programs and their staff are Peter Norvig funded by the National Science Collaboratives have been hosting isolated from others doing similar Google Foundation, NGCP works to: information meetings to announce work and do not benefit from the David Notkin • Maximize access to shared implementation. Since November University of Washington sharing of resources or exemplary resources within projects and 2011, community meetings have M. Tamer Özsu practices necessary to have a large- with both public and private been held in Arizona, Colorado, University of Waterloo scale impact. Additionally, programs organizations and institutions Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, New Fred B. Schneider often compete for resources and do Cornell University interested in expanding girls’ Jersey, New Mexico, and North not realize how collaboration can Robert Schreiber participation in STEM. Carolina. Participants who attend increase program impact. When Hewlett Packard • Strengthen capacity of existing NGCP professional development and competition is the norm, learning Valerie Taylor and evolving projects by sharing collaboration events report following Texas A&M University how to collaborate can be especially research-based exemplary practices up with people they meet, applying Jonathan Turner challenging. NGCP addresses these and program models, outcomes what they learned to their work, and Washington University in St. Louis issues by bringing together girl- and products. increasing their awareness of and level Jeannette M. Wing serving STEM organizations, K-12 Carnegie Mellon University • Use the leverage of a network or of collaboration with other programs. and higher education, professional Ellen W. Zegura collaboration of individual girl- “My participation in Florida Girls organizations and industry in a Georgia Institute of Technology serving STEM programs to create Collaborative Project events has specific collaborative framework to the tipping point for gender equity been tremendously beneficial. The Executive Director provide more effective opportunities in STEM. information I’ve received is relevant and Andrew Bernat for girls in STEM. NGCP strategies pertinent to my work goals related to enable programs to share resources, CRN Editor STEM programming. Before working providing opportunities to interact Jean Smith with the FGCP it was time-consuming and exhausting to navigate the glut of information out there regarding STEM Affiliate Societies Project Impact and girls. Because STEM is only a • 18,456,465 visits to the NGCP Web site in 5 years portion of what I do in my job, I place • 2480 programs in the online NGCP Program Directory great value and get a huge return on • 19,710 participants served in 205 mini-grants the time I invest attending Florida completing activities Girls Collaborative Project events.” —Cari Holland, • 10,790 practitioners served through events and webinars Girl Leadership Specialist, • 5,313,811 girls are served indirectly by NGCP by having their Girl Scouts-Gateway Council leaders trained in the philosophy, knowledge, and methods of NGCP Expanding the Pipeline - CACS/AIC Continued on Page 6 Page 2 May 2012 Computing Research News

CRA Election Results and Board Changes

CRA recently elected five new in Engineering Service, an academic theory. Fortnow was awarded a PhD in member of the ACM SIGPLAN members to its Board of Directors. program that pairs multidisciplinary Applied Mathematics from MIT. Executive Committee (2007-10), and They will begin three-year terms on teams of students with non-profits to Kathryn served on DARPA ISAT (2006-09). July 1, 2012. solve their technical problems. Created McKinley is Currently Morrisett is Editor of JACM, Corinna Cortes in 2004, the program now has nearly a Principal CACM Research Highlights, Information is the founder and 500 student enrollments per year. Her Researcher at Processor Letters, and previously was head of Google research interests include transforming Microsoft and an Editor of J. Functional Programming. Research, NY. computer programs to make better Endowed Professor Awards received include the Allen She has spoken use of parallelism and memory; and of Computer Newell Medal of Research Excellence at numerous increasing understanding of how Science at the (2001); Presidential Early Career Award events organized academic careers unfold over time in University of Texas, Austin. A Fellow for Scientists & Engineers (2000); by Women in CS, ways that may affect career outcomes for of both IEEE and ACM, she received National Science Foundation Career Women in Machine Learning, and under-represented faculty in science and the ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Award (1999); Alfred P. Sloan Fellow IEEE Women in Engineering (since engineering disciplines. Ferrante is a Service Award 2011. Currently a (1998); and 10-Year Best Papers for both 2003). She twice hosted a STEM PhD graduate of MIT in Mathematics. co-chair of CRA-W, she served on its PLDI (1996) and POPL (1998). His program at Google, NY, Technovation Lance Fortnow board since 2009 and has played an research interests include programming challenge involving 50 high school girls is Professor active role as a member. McKinley languages, compilers, type systems over 10 evenings learning to program of Electrical was a session panelist at the 2008 and type theory, formal methods, and Android apps and competing against Engineering and Conference at Snowbird. She was a software security. Morrisett received other teams from across the country Computer Science member of the National Academies’ a PhD in computer science from (2011 and 2012). She was an NSF Panel at Northwestern Study on Sustaining Growth in Carnegie Mellon University. Member in Information Technology University. As Computer Performance (2007-10); an Four current board members, and Datamining (2003-05). Cortes of July 1, he Intellectual Leader for Programming Eric Grimson (MIT), H.V. Jagadish holds a PhD in Computer Science will become Chair of the School of Languages and Compilers, NSF CSR (University of Michigan), Margaret from the University of Rochester, Computer Science at Georgia Tech. Future Directions Study (2010); and a Martonosi (Princeton) and Sarita NY. Her research work is well known He is an ACM Fellow (2007); NSF committee member of DARPA’s study Adve (University of Illinois, Urbana- in particular for the algorithms for Presidential Faculty Fellow (1992-98); on Reliability in Extreme Scale Systems Champaign) were re-elected to three- support vector machines (SVMs) and was a Fulbright Scholar in the (2008-09). Her research interests year terms. for which she, jointly with Vladimir Netherlands in 1996-97. Fortnow include: compilers; virtual machines; The terms of four board members Vapnik, received the 2008 Paris is a member of the Computing memory management; security; will end June 30, 2012. Bill Aspray Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award. Community Consortium Council reliability; architecture; measurement (University of Texas in Austin) will Jeanne (2010-present); co-chaired the Selection and benchmarking. McKinley rotate off the board after serving Ferrante is Committee for CI Fellows in 2011; and graduated from Rice University with a the maximum three terms. Aspray Professor of currently chairs the CCC Visioning PhD in computer science. previously was CRA’s Executive Computer Science Committee. He chairs ACM SIGACT Greg Morrisett Director from 1996 to 2002. and Engineering, (2009-12) and the Local Academic is a Professor in Completing two terms on the board Associate Dean Advisory Committee of Toyota the School of is Annie Anton (currently North of Engineering Technological Institute-Chicago Engineering & Carolina State University; as of July and Associate (2003-present). He was Founding Applied Sciences at 1, Chair of the School of Interactive Vice Chancellor of Faculty Equity Editor in Chief, ACM Transactions Harvard University Computing at Georgia Tech). Two at the Jacobs School of Engineering on Computation Theory (2007-10), and where he served industry/lab members, Limor Fix at UC San Diego. She is a Fellow served on the Executive Committee as Associate Dean (Intel) and Peter Norvig (Google) of IEEE (2005) and ACM (1996). of DIMACS (2000-03). His research for Computer Science & Electrical were appointed to serve one-year terms Since 2003 she has been involved in interests include: theoretical computer Engineering from 2007-10. He is a in slots vacated when two members a number of CRA-W activities. At science; and computational complexity member of the NSF CISE Advisory resigned. We acknowledge with thanks UCSD Ferrante co-founded Teams with applications to micro-economic Committee (2008-present), was a the contributions of all to CRA. ❚

NSF Leads Federal Big Data Initiative from Page 1

progress of scientific discovery and innovation through advances in THE BIG DATA R&D INITIATIVE deriving knowledge from data; develop the next generation of big data In addition to the $25 million joint NSF-NIH solicitation and CISE’s $10 million Expeditions in Computing award, participating agencies announced several new investments as part of the Big Data R&D Initiative. scientists, engineers, and educators; facilitate scalable data infrastructure; The Department of Defense said that it is “placing a big bet on big data,” unveiling a $60 million “Data to Decisions” and promote economic growth and effort in support of new research projects across the full spectrum of data to decisions, autonomy, and human systems. improved health and quality of life. The goal is to harness and utilize big data in new and unconventional ways, together with sensing, perception, and We invite you to participate in this decision support, to make truly autonomous systems that “go well beyond tethered joysticks.” In addition to a funding exciting new opportunity for the CISE opportunity announcement, the DoD plans to run several prize competitions in the coming months. community! ❚ DARPA announced the XDATA program, providing $25 million for projects that develop computational techniques and tools for analyzing large volumes of structured as well as unstructured data. Central challenges to be addressed through XDATA projects include “scalable algorithms for processing imperfect data in distributed data stores and Farnam Jahanian is Assistant Director effective human-computer interaction tools that are rapidly customizable to facilitate visual reasoning for diverse for Computer and Information Science and missions.” The program envisions open source software toolkits for flexible software development and, ultimately, Engineering (CISE) at NSF. Suzi Iacono processing of large volumes of data for use in targeted defense applications. is Senior Science Advisor for CISE. Additionally: • NIH made available through Amazon Web Services (AWS) 200 terabytes of data from the 1000 Genomes Project, Notes: constituting “the world’s largest set of data on human genetic variation.” 1 See Designing a Digital Future: Federally Funded Research and • The Department of Energy Office of Science launched a $25 million Scalable Data Management, Analysis, and Development in Networking and Visualization Institute, spanning six national laboratories and seven universities, as part of its Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) Program. The institute’s objective is to develop new and improved tools to Information Technology, Executive Office help scientists manage and visualize data. of the President, December 2010: http://www.nitrd.gov/pcast-2010/ • And the U.S. Geological Survey unveiled the latest awardees of its John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and report/nitrd-program/pcast-nitrd- Synthesis. A total of eight projects are being funded with a focus on improving our understanding of earth system report-2010.pdf. science through big data, including “species response to climate change, earthquake recurrence rates, and the next generation of ecological indicators.” 2 See the Computing Community Consortium White Papers website: To learn more, visit http://tinyurl.com/bigdatainitiative. http://www.cra.org/ccc/whitepapers. —Erwin P. Gianchandani php. Page 3 Computing Research News May 2012

CRA Announces Awards for Service

The CRA Board essential to all aspects of our lives. and sustain NCWIT, a national labs, is dedicated to recruiting and of Directors has As a member of a Working Group resource dedicated to encouraging advancing technical women in selected Susan L. of the President’s Council of Advisors greater participation of women in the corporate R&D. As one professor Graham, Pehong on Science and Technology (PCAST) development of computing technology. commented, “In a short time, Lucy, Chen Distinguished to assess the Federal Networking and Each of these individuals has played Bobby, and Telle raised the visibility Professor Emerita Information Technology Research and an essential role in NCWIT’s creation of computing’s gender imbalance and at UC Berkeley, Development Program, Susan was and success. distributed effective tools and practices for the Computing instrumental in creating the outline In 2003, Lucy, Bobby, and Telle had for amplifying and quickening progress Research Association Distinguished of the report, assigning the sections, a vision of creating a national center on this important issue.” Service Award 2012. Graham editing the member contributions that would bring together institutions, was selected in recognition of the into a coherent whole, writing the organizations, and individuals Awards for Service to CRA extraordinary contributions that crucial Executive Summary, dealing committed to the goal of increasing Eric Grimson, CRA Board she has made over more than three with the politics of comments and the participation of women and Chair, has selected Phil Bernstein, decades of dedicated and selfless revisions, and marketing the report girls in information technology. The Microsoft Research, and Carla service and leadership. in Washington. While many others stakeholders of this center would span Romero, Administrative Director at Graham has served on countless made important contributions, the academia, industry, K-12 educators, the McCune Charitable Foundation departmental review committees, co-chair of the working group stated, and entrepreneurs. The center would in Santa Fe, as recipients of Service editorial committees, award selection “I can say with utter certainty that facilitate sharing of promising practices to CRA Awards. The Service to CRA committees, advisory committees, there would have been no PCAST report among its members, incorporate social Award recognizes outstanding service program committees, and search without Susan.” science research about the impact of to CRA as an organization. ❚ committees for both the NSF Assistant gender in computing careers and the Directorship for CISE and the A. Nico Habermann Award effectiveness of intervention strategies, Harvard Presidency. She served on the Winners 2012 and create a community of change Phil Bernstein is President’s Information Technology The CRA agents challenging each other to recognized for his work Advisory Committee (PITAC) from Board of Directors amplify their efforts toward this goal. as CRA’s Treasurer; 1997-2003; on the Working Group of has selected Lucy It would provide a forum for greater he was instrumental the President’s Council of Advisors Sanders, CEO, cooperation and communication in putting CRA on on Science and Technology to National Center among various organizations working a sound fiscal basis assess the Federal Networking and for Women & in this space (e.g., ABI, CRA-W, including working to Information Technology Research and Information MentorNet, ACM, and the Girl Scouts install sound financial Development Program in 2010; and Technology; are all current NCWIT members). controls. has been Vice Chair of the Computing Robert Schnabel, NCWIT’s impact on the Carla Romero is Community Consortium from Dean, School computing research community is recognized for her 2006-present. of Informatics, especially evident in the activities many years of superb service as CRA’s As a member of PITAC, in addition Indiana University; of its Academic Alliance and Director of Programs, to providing important guidance and Telle Whitney, Workforce Alliance. The Academic working primarily on the “mainstream” work of the CEO and President Alliance, comprised of nearly 200 with CRA-W and CDC to create, committee, Susan served as Co-Chair of the Anita colleges and universities, has focused of the Subcommittee on Open Source on recruitment and retention of implement and evaluate their programs. Borg Institute All of the awards will be presented Software for High-End Computing, for Women and undergraduate and graduate women and as Co-Chair of the Subcommittee students, as well as making the overall on July 23 at the 2012 CRA Technology to Conference at Snowbird. on Learning and Education. These receive the 2012 A. climate within their CISE departments activities helped to establish the Nico Habermann more supportive of women students foundation for today’s view of Award. and women faculty. The Workforce computer science as an expansive The award is Alliance, whose members include discipline whose advancements are given for their joint efforts to establish corporations with the premier research

CRA Helps Deconstruct an iPad for Congress from Page 1

ranked among the world’s fastest until super-accurate atomic clocks. The revolutionary in its ease of use. He also took pains to point out to the early 1990s,” he said. Izzard noted development of atomic clocks Bederson noted that early research the standing-room-only crowds on that the path from that original IC accurate to one-billionth of a second on touch-screens can be traced back both the House and Senate sides to the ARM chip—those exponential enabled GPS, a network of clocks at least as far as the late ‘60s and of the Hill that the iPad is not a increases in complexity and decreases in space that constantly beam their early ‘70s in work funded by the culmination of technology—it is in size—was only possible because position and time. According to Defense Department, and then again just a mile-marker on a continuum of an amazingly vibrant university Phillips, any GPS receiver on the in the ‘80s and ‘90s in work funded of innovation that is improving and industry research ecosystem ground that can see four satellites can by the National Science Foundation. our quality of life, a continuum of that pushed the technology forward. determine its position to the nearest In fact, Bederson pointed out the innovation made possible by federal He added that even the original foot, a level of accuracy that enables clear transition of work performed research. “The federally supported semiconductor work in the late 1950s not only turn-by-turn directions, but at the University of Delaware and research of today,” he said, “will drive the owed a huge debt to early-stage physics accurate missile targeting, precision supported by NSF on multi-touch innovations that will change our lives in research supported by the federal farming, and a whole suite of touchscreen technology (originally the years and decades ahead.” government, often by the Department applications that can use knowledge conceived to alleviate the risk of Von Ahn and the other speakers of Defense, in prior decades. of your current location to tailor repetitive stress injuries), to a spin- briefed nearly 70 congressional Detailing some of that physics content to your needs. off company called FingerWorks, to staffers in September 2011, along work at the briefings was William More exciting for Phillips is where Apple’s purchase of the company with a few key Members of Congress. Phillips, a Nobel Laureate for his the technology is headed. Current and its use of the technology in the He then spoke again in March to a work on atomic clocks and a scientist work in his lab may help enable iPhone and iPad devices. standing-room-only crowd of Senate at the National Institute of Standards quantum computing—a paradigm Von Ahn wrapped up each staffers, as well as a small briefing and Technology. Phillips told the shift in computing “as different from briefing by pointing out that the with current Chair of the House story of the global positioning system the iPad as the iPad is different from story of the iPad is just one example Judiciary Committee (and likely (GPS) that allows the iPad to know an abacus.” of how federal support for early stage next Chair of the House Science, where it is in the world to within In the fall briefings, the panelists research is truly an investment with Space and Technology Committee), a few feet. The innovations that were joined by Ben Bederson, a a history of extraordinary payoff—in Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX). The enabled GPS had their roots in early Professor of Computer Science at the explosion of new technologies March briefing was videotaped and research on magnetic resonance— the University of Maryland, who that have touched nearly every aspect will be available for viewing on work that led to both magnetic detailed the story of the development of our lives, and in economic terms the website of the Task Force on resonance imaging for health uses of the touchscreen and multi-touch in the creation of new industries American Innovation at: http:// (MRI) and the development of interface that makes the iPad so and literally millions of new jobs. innovationtaskforce.org. ❚

Page 4 CRA CONFERENCE AT SNOWBIRD 2012 u JULY 22 – 24 May 2012 CLIFF LODGE, SNOWBIRD RESORT, UTAH Computing Research News The invitation-only flagship conference for chairs of Ph.D.-granting departments of CS, CE, and IT, and leaders from U.S. industrial and government computing research laboratories and centers interested in computing research issues. Preliminary Program Sunday, July 22 Break 10:00AM - 10:30AM CRA Board of Directors Meeting (begins Saturday 5pm) 8:30AM - 2:45PM Parallel Sessions I 10:30AM - Noon

Conference Registration NOON - 7:30PM Humanitarian Computing (C Level – Top of the Escalator) Chair: Ellen Zegura (Georgia Institute of Technology) Speakers: Michael Best (Georgia Institute of Technology) Workshop for New Department Chairs 3:00PM - 5:45PM Gaetano Borriello (University of Washington) Co-Chairs: Mike Gennert (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Colin Maclay (Berkman Institute, Harvard University) Darrell Whitley (Colorado State University) Ralph Morelli (Trinity College) Speakers: Peter Bloniarz (University at Albany) Leysia Palen (University of Colorado) John Paxton (Montana State University) Others: TBD Institutional Data: Revised Taulbee Groupings, New Data and Services, Data Buddies, and More This workshop will give new CS Department Chairs some of the skills to lead Co-Chairs: Jim Kurose (UMass) and Carla Brodley (Tufts) their organizations and work with Deans, Provosts, and Advisory Boards—the Speakers: Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines) stuff they never told you in graduate school. Michael Goldweber (Xavier University) Stu Zweben (Ohio State University, Emeritus) Agenda: • Panels: Nuts & Bolts of Managing a Department A New Future for K-12 CS Education: Why You Should Care Dealing with Different Stakeholders Chair: Bobby Schnabel (Indiana University) Strategic Thinking Speakers: Chris Stephenson (CSTA) • Active, engaging, group-based, problem-solving exercises—putting theory Lucy Sanders (NCWIT) into practice Jan Cuny (NSF) • Group reports & discussion Cameron Wilson (ACM)

Whether you’ve been department chair for one week or one year, there is more Publication Models in Computing Research: Is a Change Needed? Are We Ready to the job than you think. Come join your fellow new chairs in this workshop! for a Change? Welcome Reception 6:00PM - 7:00PM Chair: Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice University) Speakers: Carlo Ghezzi (Politecnico di Milano) Dinner 7:00PM - 9:00PM Jonathan Grudin (Microsoft Research) M. Tamer Özsu (University of Waterloo) Welcome Eric Grimson, MIT (Academic Co-Chair) Fred B. Schneider (Cornell University) Dick Waters, MERL (Labs/Centers Co-Chair) Luncheon Noon - 1:30PM Speaker: John L. Hennessy (President, Stanford University) Chair: Eric Grimson (Chair, CRA Board of Directors) Parallel Sessions II 1:30PM - 3:00PM Title: The Coming Tsunami in Educational Technology The Breadth of Interdisciplinary Computing Research Chair: Jeff MacKie-Mason, School of Information, University of Michigan Panelists: Kelly Dobson, Department of Digital + Media, Rhode Island Monday, July 23 School of Design Chris Johnson, School of Computing, University of Utah Breakfast Buffet 7:00AM - 8:30AM Chris Raphael, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Registration 7:30AM - 6:00PM Paul Resnick, School of Information, University of Michigan

Conference Co-Chairs Announcements 8:30AM -10:00AM Industry/University Interactions: Working Out the Kinks Chair: Ron Brachman (Yahoo! Labs) PLENARY SESSION I 8:40AM -10:00AM Speakers: TBD

Pillars of Societal Innovation: The Growing Imperative of Research and Education Computer Science Curriculum 2013 (CS2013): Getting Feedback on CS Curricular in Computing Guidelines for the Next Decade Speaker: Dr. Farnham Jahanian (Assistant Director of NSF for CISE) Chair: Mehran Sahami (Stanford) Chair: Andrew Bernat (Executive Director, CRA) Speakers: Steve Roach (University of Texas, El Paso) Dan Grossman (University of Washington) Break 10:00AM -10:30AM Rich LeBlanc (Seattle University) Remzi Seker (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) PLENARY SESSION II 10:30AM - Noon Break 3:00PM - 3:30PM Reflections on Teaching Massive Online Open Courses Chair: David Patterson (UC Berkeley) PLENARY SESSION V 3:30PM - 5:00PM Speakers: Sal Khan (Founder of the Khan Academy)—Online Talk Peter Norvig (Google)—Live Talk Politics 2012 and What it Might Mean for Computing Research [Each speaker followed by Q&A] Chair: Fred Schneider (Cornell University) Speaker: Peter Harsha (Director of Government Affairs, CRA) Luncheon Noon -1:30PM Managing Up—Partnering with your Dean 5:00PM - 6:30PM PLENARY SESSION III 1:30PM - 3:00PM Chair: Randy Bryant (Carnegie Mellon University) Speakers: Richard B. Brown (Dean, University of Utah) The Convergence of Social and Technological Networks Zvi Galil (Dean, Georgia Tech) Chair: Eric Grimson (CRA Board Chair) Ronald L. Larsen (Dean, University of Pittsburgh) Speaker: Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University) Robert B. Schnabel (Dean, Indiana University) Jeffrey S. Vitter (Provost, Kansas University) Break 3:00PM - 3:30PM Others: TBD Networking Events 3:30PM - 5:00PM Dinner 6:30PM - 7:30PM Dinner 6:30PM - 9:00PM CRA Government Affairs Committee Award Presentations: Dinner 6:30PM - 7:30PM CRA’s Distinguished Service, A. Nico Habermann, and Service to CRA awards Meeting 7:30PM - 9:30PM Research Futures Panel Chair: Ed Lazowska, CCC Chair Panelists: TBD CRA Education Committee Tuesday Dinner 6:30PM - 7:30PM Tuesday, July 24 Wednesday Meeting 9:00AM - Noon Breakfast Buffet 7:00AM - 8:30AM CRA-Deans Meeting 5:00PM - 6:30PM PLENARY SESSION IV 8:30AM - 10:00AM Dinner 6:30PM - 7:30PM

Evolution and Future Directions of Large-Scale Systems at Google Meeting Continues 7:30PM - 9:00PM Speaker: Jeffrey Dean (Google, Inc.) Wednesday, July 25 8:30AM - Noon Chair: Alfred Spector (Google, Inc.)

Program with Session Descriptions at: http://cra.org/events/snowbird-2012/

CRA Conference at Snowbird 2012 Sponsors • Association for Computing Machinery • CA Labs • Facebook • Google • IBM Research • IEEE-Computer Society • Microsoft Research • Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs • NSA • USENIX Association

Snowbird Organizing Committee 2012 British Columbia); Jim Kurose (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Peter Co-Chairs: Eric Grimson (MIT) Academic Co-Chair; Dick Waters (MERL) Lee (Microsoft Research); Ran Libeskind-Hadas (Harvey Mudd College); Labs/Centers Co-Chair Takis Metaxas (Wellesley College); Dave Patterson (UC Berkeley); Guri Sohi (University of Wisconsin, Madison); Alfred Spector (Google, Inc.); and Ellen Members: Annie Antón (North Carolina State University); Ron Brachman Zegura (Georgia Institute of Technology). (Yahoo! Labs); Carla Brodley (Tufts University); Anne Condon (University of Page 5 Computing Research News May 2012

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2012, more than 100 practitioners million girls. Practitioners who access common goal of building critical mass in a Sharing Exemplary Practices attended a webinar entitled “Effective the Program Directory find partners national network that hopes to create NGCP partners with a variety of Tools You Can Use to Change the Image of and network with other programs “the tipping point” for gender equity organizations that provide expertise in Computing among Girls.” This webinar through it and benefit from the in STEM. It is a culture of informal specific content areas to disseminate is archived and available on the NGCP opportunity to publicize their program. STEM practitioners trying to leverage exemplary practices through website for 24/7 viewing. resources to achieve their goals. Collaborative events, webinars, and the Mini-Grants By creating partnerships with NGCP website. Partner organizations Program Directory NGCP Collaboratives provide mini- others that serve girls and women in include the Assessing Women and A critical online collaboration tool, grants to organizations collaborating STEM, organizations can generate Men in Engineering (AWE) Project, developed in 2002, is the Program on a STEM project for girls in their and carry out creative solutions the Education Development Center, Directory. It has been significantly region. The grants are $1,000 (or less) and strategies that maximize the Techbridge, Girl Scouts of the USA, improved over the past eight years and serve as the catalyst for two or benefit beyond what one project or SciGirls, and Engineer Your Life. based on user feedback and ongoing more organizations to work together organization could accomplish alone, NGCP aims to make exemplary analysis of functionality. Projects and on a project. To date, 205 mini-grants reducing duplication of effort and practices accessible, building the organizations enter basic program serving more than 19,000 participants organizational isolation while at the capacity of girl-serving organizations data into the directory, providing have been awarded by NGCP same time, increasing efficiencies and to provide high-quality STEM brief descriptions of organizational Collaboratives. Mini-grant recipients promoting sustainability of recruitment opportunities to all girls. goals, population served, geographic rate their collaborations as effective, and retention efforts. NGCP webinars are one venue for location and contact information. with 92 percent of respondents NGCP has developed and tested making current research accessible NGCP Program Directory entries indicating the highest ratings of a comprehensive program of change to a national audience. All webinars also include needs and resources as a success. In 68 percent of the projects that uses collaboration to expand and are free and open to the public catalyst for collaboration. Users search Partner organizations indicate they will strengthen STEM-related opportunities and are archived on the NGCP by these variables finding potential continue the effort, and 72 percent of for girls and women. The NGCP website. Presentations have included partners to meet their needs and utilize partners indicate that collaboration model accomplishes this by creating a a workshop on assessing outreach their resources, resulting in a more with their partner has extended to network of professionals, researchers, activities, incorporating role models, effective use of resources among STEM other activities. and practitioners, facilitating best practices in collaboration, and projects. There are currently more than “It was an amazing experience for all collaboration within this network, and current research on effective strategies 2,300 programs listed in the Program girls and women. I wished that such a delivering high-quality research-based for serving girls in STEM. In March Directory, representing more than 5 forum had existed for me, when I was professional development. 10 years old. The presenters provided • Project Website: such vast insights into the world of www.ngcproject.org

NGCP Aerospace. But the most important • Facebook: message for our girls was clearly stated www.facebook.com/ngcproject as—persevere, follow your dreams, and • Twitter: @ngcproject always, move forward towards your joy.” • Linked In: —Tracey Masterson, Girl Scout Leader, www.linkedin.com/groups/ and Mini-grant participant National-Girls-Collaborative- A very clear culture and philosophy Project-4344096 has developed within NGCP. There • Online Program Directory: is common interest to maximize access www.ngcproject.org/directory to scarce shared resources across any kind of organization, and share resources in order to provide STEM Karen A. Peterson (kpeterson@ programming to girls in informal edlabgroup.org) is Chief Executive Officer, settings. There is an emphasis on EdLab Group & Principal Investigator, sharing experience and building knowledge National Girls Collaborative Project (www. of promising practices research and edlabgroup.org) the basics of assessment. There is a NGCP Institute Attendees Celebrating Collaboration Computer Science at the World Economic Forum By Stephanie Forrest Discipline-Specific

U.S. computer science and pictures only, slides automatically international relations, the rise of Mentoring engineering was well represented at change every 20 seconds — a major Internet censorship, etc. Workshops January’s World Economic Forum challenge for those of us accustomed Attending the Forum was a in Davos, Switzerland (http://www. to giving 50 minute talks with refreshing change from academic Call for Proposals weforum.org/). Several academic graphs, proofs, and pseudo-code. In computer science, and we all have computer scientists were invited to addition to the Idea Labs, many of entertaining stories of chance due June 15, 2012 participate in sessions known as Idea the scientists spoke in specialized encounters with famous people we Labs, each of which was organized sessions and panels on related topics. had never heard of, and some we CRA-W and CDC are around a single theme and institution. For example, Poggio was one of two had. A recent article in The New jointly soliciting proposals Tomaso Poggio and Alex Pentland speakers in a session devoted to “The Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/ for discipline-specific participated in a session titled “Worms, Mind and the Machine”; and I was reporting/2012/03/05/120305fa_fact_ mentoring workshops within Machines and Brains with MIT”; a panelist in a session on “Risks in paumgarten?currentPage=1c)aptures computing sub-fields. The Justine Cassell, Pradeep Khosla, a Hyperconnected World” focusing the tone of the meeting nicely. Yes, the goal of these workshops Tom Mitchell and Manuela Veloso on cybersecurity. My remarks on parties were awesome! is to increase the comprised a session on “Leveraging ”biological models for software participation of members Human-Machine Collaboration with security” elicited questions from an Stephanie Forrest is a professor of of underrepresented Carnegie-Mellon University”; and immunologist, the Chief of Europol computer science at the University of New groups within a specific the author spoke in the session titled (the European Police Office), a Mexico and, until recently, a member of research area by providing “Managing Complexity with the Santa Vice President of the European the CCC Council. Stephanie attended career-mentoring advice Fe Institute.” Each 75-minute session Commission, and the CEO of a large the World Economic Forum’s 2012 and discipline-specific consisted of a short introduction, multi-national corporation. The Annual Meeting earlier this year and she usually by the university’s president, participants in these sessions were well writes about her experiences here. This overviews of past followed by (very) short talks from each acquainted with the economic and contribution originally appeared on the accomplishments and presenter, and then breakout sessions legal issues surrounding cybersecurity CCC Blog on March 18, 2012 (http:// future research directions. following up on the talks. and cyberattacks, but there was little www.cccblog.org/2012/03/18/computer- Each talk was in the visual “Pecha discussion of the increasing role science-at-the-world-economic-forum/) www.cra-w.org/discipline Kucha” format — five minutes, played by cybersecurity issues in Page 6 May 2012 Computing Research News

2010-2011 Taulbee Survey Continued Increase in Undergraduate CS Degree Production; Slight Rise in Doctoral Production By Stuart Zweben and Betsy Bizot

The CRA Taulbee Survey1 is track faculty size of the reporting and approved by the CRA Board Doctoral Degree conducted annually by the Computing department. The faculty size strata of Directors, following extensive Production, Enrollments and Research Association to document deliberately overlap, so that data from discussion of various options. We no Employment (Tables D1-D8; trends in student enrollment, most departments affect multiple longer stratify the data according to Figures D1-D6) any ranking of academic departments. degree production, employment of strata. This may be especially useful Overall, total Ph.D. production In addition to tabular presentations graduates, and faculty salaries in to departments near the boundary in computing programs (Table D1, of data, we will use “box and whisker” academic units in the United States of one stratum. Salary data also are Figure D1) held steady in 2010-11, with diagrams to show medians, quartiles, and Canada that grant the Ph.D. in stratified according to the population 1,782 degrees granted compared with and the range between the 10th and computer science (CS), computer of the locale in which the institution 1,772 last year with more departments 2 3 90th percentile data points. The engineering (CE) or information (I) . is located . This will allow our readers reporting last year. Among departments March 2012 CRN illustrated the use of Most of these academic units are to see multiple views of important reporting both this year and last year, these diagrams. departments, but some are colleges or data, and hopefully gain new insights the number of total doctoral degrees We thank all respondents to this schools of information or computing. from them. These stratification increased 5.2 percent. year’s questionnaire. Departments that In this report, we will use the term dimensions were recommended Next year, the departments predict 4 participated are listed at the end of “department” to refer to the unit by the CRA Surveys Committee an increase of nearly 9 percent in offering the program. This article this article. and the accompanying figures and tables present the results from the 41st Figure 1. Number of Respondents to the Taulbee Survey annual CRA Taulbee Survey. Information is gathered during the Year US CS Depts. US CE Depts. Canadian US Information Total fall. Responses received by January 1995 110/133 (83%) 9/13 (69%) 11/16 (69%) 130/162 (80%) 23, 2012 are included in the analysis. 1996 98/131 (75%) 8/13 (62%) 9/16 (56%) 115/160 (72%) The period covered by the data varies from table to table. Degree production 1997 111/133 (83%) 6/13 (46%) 13/17 (76%) 130/163 (80%) and enrollment (Ph.D., Master’s, 1998 122/145 (84%) 7/19 (37%) 12/18 (67%) 141/182 (77%) and Bachelor’s) refer to the previous 1999 132/156 (85%) 5/24 (21%) 19/23 (83%) 156/203 (77%) academic year (2010-11). Data for new students in all categories refer to 2000 148/163 (91%) 6/28 (21%) 19/23 (83%) 173/214 (81%) the current academic year (2011-12). 2001 142/164 (87%) 8/28 (29%) 23/23 (100%) 173/215 (80%) Projected student production and 2002 150/170 (88%) 10/28 (36%) 22/27 (82%) 182/225 (80%) information on faculty salaries are 2003 148/170 (87%) 6/28 (21%) 19/27 (70%) 173/225 (77%) those effective January 1, 2012. We surveyed a total of 267 Ph.D.- 2004 158/172 (92%) 10/30 (33%) 21/27 (78%) 189/229 (83%) granting departments; 184 returned 2005 156/174 (90%) 10/31 (32%) 22/27 (81%) 188/232 (81%) their survey forms, for a response 2006 156/175 (89%) 12/33 (36%) 20/28 (71%) 188/235 (80%) rate of 69 percent. This is lower than last year’s 74 percent, due to lower 2007 155/176 (88%) 10/30 (33%) 21/28 (75%) 186/234 (79%) response rates from the CS and 2008 151/181 (83%) 12/32 (38%) 20/30 (67%) 9/19 (47%) 192/264 (73%) Canadian departments (77 and 43 2009 147/184 (80%) 13/31 (42%) 16/30 (53.3%) 12/20 (60%) 188/265 (71%) percent, respectively). The response rate from CE departments was 42 2010 150/184 (82%) 12/30 (40%) 18/29 (62%) 15/22 (68%) 195/265 (74%) percent, and that from I departments 2011 142/185 (77%) 13/31 (42%) 13/30 (43%) 16/21 (76%) 184/267 (69%) was 76 percent, both slightly higher than last year. Figure 1 shows the history of response rates to the survey. Figure D1. PhD Production Response rates are inexact because CRA Taulbee Survey 2011 some departments provide only partial data, and some institutions provide a single joint response for multiple departments. Thus, in some tables the number of departments shown as reporting will not equal the overall total number of respondents for that category of department. To account for the changes in response rate, we will comment not only on aggregate totals but also on averages per department reporting or data from those departments that responded to both this year’s and last year’s surveys. This will be a more accurate indication of the one-year changes affecting the data. Departments that responded to Table D1. PhD Production and Pipeline by Department Type the survey were sent preliminary Passed Thesis PhDs Awarded PhDs Next Year Passed Qualifier results about faculty salaries in Department # (if dept has) January 2012; these results included Type Depts Avg/ Avg/ Avg/ # Avg/ additional distributional information # Dept # Dept # Dept # Dept Dept not contained in this report. The CRA Board views this as a benefit of US CS Public 104 1,062 10.2 1,260 12.1 1,367 13.1 899 87 10.3 participating in the survey. US CS Private 36 395 11.0 426 11.8 360 10.0 278 26 10.7 This year, we modified the manner US CS Total 140 1,457 10.4 1,686 12.0 1,727 12.3 1,177 113 10.4 in which we report data for U.S. CS US CE 12 80 6.7 55 4.6 89 7.4 58 9 6.4 departments. Degree, enrollment and faculty salary data are stratified US Info 13 80 6.2 86 6.6 95 7.3 55 10 5.5 according to a) whether the institution Canadian 13 165 12.7 110 8.5 173 13.3 171 12 14.3 is public or private, and b) the tenure- Grand Total 178 1,782 10.0 1,937 10.9 2,084 11.7 1,461 144 10.1

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Table D2. PhDs Awarded by Gender CS CE I Total Male 1,154 81.6% 159 77.9% 81 67.5% 1,394 80.2% Female 261 18.4% 45 22.1% 39 32.5% 345 19.8%

Total Known Gender 1,415 204 120 1,739 Gender Unknown 41 1 1 43 Grand Total 1,456 205 121 1,782

Table D3. PhDs Awarded by Ethnicity CS CE I Total Nonresident Alien 634 48.1% 130 67.4% 44 37.0% 808 49.6% Amer Indian or Alaska Native 2 0.2% 0 0.0% 2 1.7% 4 0.2% Asian 171 13.0% 16 8.3% 14 11.8% 201 12.3% Black or African-American 16 1.2% 1 0.5% 6 5.0% 23 1.4% Native Hawaiian/Pac Islander 4 0.3% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 4 0.2% White 465 35.3% 42 21.8% 52 43.7% 559 34.3% Multiracial, not Hispanic 3 0.2% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 3 0.2% Hispanic, any race 22 1.7% 4 2.1% 1 0.8% 27 1.7% Total Residency & Ethnicity Known 1,317 193 119 1,629 Resident, ethnicity unknown 43 4 2 49 Residency unknown 96 8 0 104 Grand Total 1,456 205 121 1,782

Table D4. Employment of New PhD Recipients By Specialty Artificial Intelligence Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Databases /Information Retrieval Graphics/Visualization Hardware/Architecture Human-Computer Interaction High-Performance Computing Informatics: Biomedica/ Other Science Assurance/ Information Security Information Science Information Systems Networks Operating Systems Programming Languages/Compilers Robotics/Vision Scientific/ Numerical Computing Social Computing/ Social Informatics Software Engineering Algorithms Theory and Other Total North American PhD Granting Depts. Tenure-track 14 1 5 6 2 10 1 2 5 9 2 6 2 3 3 1 4 7 6 13 102 7.1% Researcher 6 1 4 6 1 1 0 6 2 0 2 7 2 2 2 3 1 3 7 17 73 5.1% Postdoc 38 1 12 17 4 12 0 20 7 5 2 12 7 7 14 6 3 10 30 34 241 16.8% Teaching Faculty 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 3 4 4 4 28 2.0% North American, Other Academic Other CS/CE/I Dept. 3 0 4 1 1 1 4 2 2 0 5 6 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 18 52 3.6% Non-CS/CE/I Dept. North American, Non-Academic Industry 64 2 49 46 41 24 20 17 40 5 6 67 29 22 25 6 12 86 32 83 676 47.2% Government 7 0 5 2 6 2 5 3 8 1 2 1 0 0 2 4 1 4 2 5 60 4.2% Self-Employed 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 2 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 13 0.9% Unemployed 2 0 2 1 2 2 1 0 2 0 1 3 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 3 23 1.6% Other 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 7 0.5% Total Inside North America 138 6 83 80 57 54 32 53 67 22 23 106 44 35 48 20 26 118 85 178 1,275 89.0% Outside North America Ten-Track in PhD 5 0 5 1 1 0 0 0 3 2 1 6 1 0 0 0 1 4 3 2 35 2.4% Researcher in PhD 1 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 11 0.8% Postdoc in PhD 8 0 2 1 2 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 4 0 0 3 6 3 35 2.4% Teaching in PhD 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 9 0.6% Other Academic 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 8 0.6% Industry 0 0 4 5 1 0 1 2 1 1 0 13 1 1 1 0 1 4 2 7 45 3.1% Government 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 7 0.5% Other 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 0.5% Total Outside NA 16 0 14 9 7 2 3 8 8 3 5 20 3 2 5 2 3 14 12 21 157 11.0% Total with Employment Data, Inside North America plus Outside North America 154 6 97 89 64 56 35 61 75 25 28 126 47 37 53 22 29 132 97 199 1,432 Employment Type & Location Unknown 39 0 9 22 6 13 2 7 7 5 11 14 8 11 7 5 2 15 22 145 350 Grand Total 193 6 106 111 70 69 37 68 82 30 39 140 55 48 60 27 31 147 119 344 1,782

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2010-2011 Taulbee Survey doctoral degree production, but they all, departments have such exams) comparable to that of last year. The doctoral programs (Table D6) is notoriously over-predict the number increased this year. This suggests number of new students in CE and I comparable to that of last year, after of Ph.D. graduates. A more realistic that the number of doctoral degrees programs also are similar to last year’s accounting for the decreased number forecast for next year’s production is produced will increase in the near term. figures. There was a slight decline of departments reporting this year. one comparable to that for this year. The number of new Ph.D. students in the proportion of new doctoral However, total enrollment by Non- The number of new students overall (Table D5) is somewhat students from outside North America resident Aliens is higher in all three per department passing qualifier less than last year (2,812 this year (Table D5a), from 56.8 percent last computing areas, and the overall level and thesis candidacy exams in U.S. vs. 2,962 last year). However, on a year to 56.3 percent this year. Total is now at 57.3 percent vs. 51.0 percent CS departments (most, but not per department basis, this total is enrollment in computer science last year (Table D8 and Figure D2).

Table D5. New PhD Students by Department Type CS CE I Total Department Type Avg. Avg. Avg. Avg. New MS to Total per New MS to Total per New MS to Total per Total per Admit PhD Dept. Admit PhD Dept. Admit PhD Dept. Dept US CS Public 1,508 167 1,675 16.1 84 18 102 1.0 77 4 81 0.8 1,858 17.9 US CS Private 526 53 579 16.1 20 0 20 0.6 7 1 8 0.2 607 16.9 US CS Total 2,034 220 2,254 16.1 104 18 122 0.9 84 5 89 0.6 2,465 17.6 US CE 0 0 0 0.0 57 13 70 5.8 0 0 0 0.0 70 5.8 US Information 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0.0 103 9 112 8.6 112 8.6 Canadian 126 21 147 11.3 18 0 18 1.4 0 0 0 0.0 165 12.7 Grand Total 2,160 241 2,401 13.5 179 31 210 1.2 187 14 201 1.1 2,812 15.8

Table D5a. New PhD Students from Outside North America Total % outside Department CS CE I New Total North Type Outside New America US CS Public 1,041 58 30 1,129 1,858 60.8% US CS Private 267 7 6 280 607 46.1% Total US CS 1,308 65 36 1,409 2,465 57.2% US CE 0 41 0 41 70 58.6% US Info 0 0 47 47 112 42.0% Canadian 73 5 9 87 165 52.7% Grand Total 1,381 111 92 1,584 2,812 56.3%

Table D6. PhD Enrollment by Department Type Department # Type Depts CS CE I Total US CS Public 104 8,358 70.0% 680 39.1% 378 38.0% 9,416 64.2% US CS Private 36 2,514 21.1% 174 10.0% 10 1.0% 2,698 18.4% Total US CS 140 10,872 91.1% 854 49.1% 388 39.0% 12,114 82.6% US CE 12 0 0.0% 789 45.3% 0 0.0% 789 5.4% US Info 13 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 606 61.0% 606 4.1% Canadian 13 1,065 8.9% 97 5.6% 0 0.0% 1,162 7.9% Grand Total 178 11,937 1,740 994 14,671

Table D7. PhD Enrollment by Gender CS CE I Total Male 9,745 81.6% 1483 85.2% 604 60.8% 11,832 80.7% Female 2,191 18.4% 257 14.8% 389 39.2% 2,837 19.3% Total Known Gender 11,936 1,740 993 14,669 Gender Unknown 1 0 1 2 Grand Total 11,937 1,740 994 14,671

Table D8. PhD Enrollment by Ethnicity CS CE I Total Nonresident Alien 5,978 56.1% 1152 74.0% 402 42.9% 7,532 57.3% Amer Indian or Alaska Native 50 0.5% 0 0.0% 2 0.2% 52 0.4% Asian 897 8.4% 79 5.1% 85 9.1% 1,061 8.1% Black or African-American 172 1.6% 27 1.7% 49 5.2% 248 1.9% Native Hawaiian/Pac Islander 11 0.1% 0 0.0% 16 1.7% 27 0.2% White 3367 31.6% 278 17.9% 357 38.1% 4,002 30.4% Multiracial, not Hispanic 31 0.3% 4 0.3% 2 0.2% 37 0.3% Hispanic, any race 149 1.4% 16 1.0% 25 2.7% 190 1.4% Total Known 10,655 1,556 938 13,149 Resident, ethnicity unknown 474 112 43 629 Residency unknown 808 72 13 893 Grand Total 11,937 1,740 994 14,671

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2010-2011 Taulbee Survey Approximately 73 percent of faculty and more degrees are given offsets the graduation data by five real overall percentages for certain the doctoral degrees at U.S. CS per tenure-track faculty member in years from the data for new students. employment categories. departments are granted by public larger departments, while at private These data have been useful in Table D4 also indicates the areas universities, though the average per universities there is less variability as estimating the timing of changes in of specialty of new Ph.D.s. Artificial department is similar at public and department size increases (Figures D3 production rates. intelligence, software engineering, private universities. A similar fraction and D4. Figure D6 shows the employment and networking continue to be the of new students (74 percent) are at Figure D5 shows a graphical view trend of new Ph.D.s in academia and most popular areas of specialization public universities, while a larger of the Ph.D. pipeline for computer industry, those taking employment for doctoral graduates, though this fraction of new students from outside science programs. The data in this outside of North America, and year software engineering replaced North America (approximately 80 graph are normalized by the number those going to academia who took networking as the number two area percent) are at the public universities. of departments reporting. The graph positions in departments other than behind AI. Theory and algorithms, At public universities, there are offsets the qualifier data by one year Ph.D.-granting CS/CE departments. databases, and graphics/visualization more students per tenure-track from the data for new students, and Table D4 shows a more detailed remained the next three most breakdown of the employment data popular areas. for new Ph.D.s. There was an increase A similar fraction of this year’s in the fraction of new Ph.D.s who computer science graduates were Figure D2. Nonresident Aliens as Fraction of PhD Enrollments CRA Taulbee Survey 2011 took positions in industry (to 47.2 women (18.4 percent vs. 18.8 percent 60 percent vs. 44.7 percent in 2009-10). in 2009-10), a smaller fraction of this The 2010-11 level is about the same as year’s I graduates were women (32.5 that in 2008-09. A smaller fraction of percent vs. 40.2 percent in 2009-10) 55 graduates took academic jobs in 2010- and a larger fraction of this year’s 11 as compared with 2009-10. The CE graduates were women (22.1 fraction taking tenure-track positions percent vs. 15.4 percent in 2009- 50 in doctoral-granting institutions 10). A smaller fraction of this year’s dropped from 8.2 percent in 2009-10 graduates were White (34.3 percent

45 to 7.1 percent in 2010-11; however, vs. 36.7 percent in 2009-10). This the fraction taking positions in non- change was largest in I departments, Ph.D.-granting departments increased where there was a 7 percent smaller 40 to 3.6 percent from 2.4 percent. The fraction of Whites and a 7 percent fraction taking postdoctoral positions larger fraction of Non-resident Aliens, also declined, to 16.8 percent from a reverse of what was experienced last 35 19.5 percent, but the fraction taking year, but this may reflect differences researcher positions at doctoral- in the specific departments reporting 5 30 granting institutions increased from this year. 3.4 percent to 5.1 percent. The unemployment rate for new Master’s and Bachelor’s Ph.D.s rose somewhat this year, to Degree Production and 1.6 percent from 1.1 percent last year. Enrollments The proportion of Ph.D. graduates This section reports data about Figure D3. PhD Degrees Granted by Tenure-Track Size who were reported taking positions enrollment and degree production CRA Taulbee Survey 2011 outside of North America, among for Master’s and Bachelor’s those whose employment is known, programs in the doctoral-granting declined slightly to 11.0 percent from departments. Although the absolute 11.8 percent in 2009-10. number of degrees and students This year, there was a larger enrolled reported herein only reflect fraction of new Ph.D.s whose departments that offer the doctoral employment status was unknown degree, the trends observed in the (19.6 percent vs. 15.1 percent last master’s and bachelor’s data from year). It is possible that this skews the

Figure D5. CS Pipeline corrected for year of entry

Figure D4. PhD Enrollment Normalized by Tenure-Track Size CRA Taulbee Survey 2011

Figure D6. Employment of New PhD’s in US and Canada

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2010-2011 Taulbee Survey these departments tend to strongly sharply in CE and I departments, recipients were Black, Hispanic or I programs. A larger proportion of new reflect trends in the larger population resulting in an overall increase in Asian this year compared with last master’s students are from outside of of programs that offer such degrees. production of 5 percent even with year, while there was a somewhat North America this year compared fewer departments reporting overall. smaller proportion of Whites and with last year (56.2 percent vs. 51.2 Master’s (Tables M1-M6; The proportion of female Non-resident Aliens receiving master’s percent last year). Figures M1-M2) graduates among master’s recipients degrees this year. Despite the neutral to increasing Master’s degree production increased from 27.2 percent in 2009- The number of new master’s data for new master’s students, in CS was flat in 2010-11 after 10 to 29.5 percent in 2010-11. In students in CS programs this year is the number of master’s degrees accounting for the decreased number computer science, the increase was similar to last year on a per-department expected next year is less in all three of departments reporting. However, from 21.0 percent to 24.6 percent. basis, though there is an increase in computing areas (CS, CE and I). Total master’s degree production increased A higher fraction of the master’s new master’s students among CE and enrollment in master’s programs is

Table M1. Master’s Degrees Awarded by Department Type Department Type # Depts CS CE I Total US CS Public 109 4,030 61.0% 526 44.5% 521 23.6% 5,077 50.8% US CS Private 40 2,054 31.1% 137 11.6% 414 18.8% 2,605 26.1% Total US CS 150 6,084 92.0% 663 56.0% 935 42.4% 7,682 76.8% US CE 12 0 0.0% 428 36.2% 0 0.0% 428 4.3% US Info 13 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1271 57.6% 1,271 12.7% Canadian 18 527 8.0% 92 7.8% 0 0.0% 619 6.2% Grand Total 192 6,611 1,183 2,206 10,000

Table M2. Master’s Degrees Awarded by Gender CS CE I Total Male 4,968 75.4% 920 77.8% 1150 52.2% 7,038 70.5% Female 1,623 24.6% 262 22.2% 1054 47.8% 2,939 29.5% Total Known Gender 6,591 1,182 2,204 9,977 Gender Unknown 20 1 2 23 Grand Total 6,611 1,183 2,206 10,000

Table M3. Master’s Degrees Awarded by Ethnicity CS CE I Total Nonresident Alien 3,332 56.7% 776 72.6% 389 19.6% 4,497 50.4% Amer Indian or Alaska Native 12 0.2% 0 0.0% 12 0.6% 24 0.3% Asian 753 12.8% 108 10.1% 245 12.3% 1,106 12.4% Black or African-American 96 1.6% 13 1.2% 123 6.2% 232 2.6% Native Hawaiian/Pac Island 19 0.3% 0 0.0% 6 0.3% 25 0.3% White 1533 26.1% 142 13.3% 1113 56.1% 2,788 31.2% Multiracial, not Hispanic 8 0.1% 4 0.4% 4 0.2% 16 0.2% Hispanic, any race 119 2.0% 26 2.4% 92 4.6% 237 2.7% Total Residency & Ethnicity Known 5,872 1,069 1,984 8,925 Resident, ethnicity unknown 320 88 205 613 Residency unknown 419 26 17 462 Grand Total 6,611 1,183 2,206 10,000

Table M4. Master’s Degrees Expected Next Year by Department Type Department Type # Depts CS CE I Total US CS Public 104 3,491 60.8% 365 37.6% 423 20.6% 4,279 48.8% US CS Private 37 1,918 33.4% 120 12.4% 327 15.9% 2,365 27.0% Total US CS 141 5,409 94.3% 485 49.9% 750 36.5% 6,644 75.8% US CE 12 0 0.0% 484 49.8% 0 0.0% 484 5.5% US Info 13 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1303 63.5% 1,303 14.9% Canadian 13 329 5.7% 2 0.2% 0 0.0% 331 3.8% Grand Total 179 5,738 971 2,053 8,762

Table M5. New Master’s Students by Department Type Outside North CS CE I Total America Department Type # Avg / # Avg / # Avg / # Avg / Total Depts Dept Total Depts Dept Total Dept Dept Total Dept Dept Total % US CS Public 3,028 99 30.6 246 22 11.2 299 10 29.9 3,573 99 36.1 2319 64.9% US CS Private 2,229 35 63.7 110 6 18.3 284 4 71.0 2,623 35 74.9 1469 56.0% Total US CS 5,257 134 39.2 356 28 12.7 583 14 41.6 6,196 134 46.2 3,788 61.1% US CE 0 0 313 9 34.8 0 0 313 9 34.8 268 85.6% US Info 0 0 0 0 1141 12 95.1 1,141 12 95.1 241 21.1% Canadian 353 12 29.4 26 2 13.0 0 0 379 12 31.6 212 55.9% Grand Total 5,610 146 38.4 695 39 17.8 1,724 26 66.3 8,029 167 48.1 4,509 56.2%

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2010-2011 Taulbee Survey down compared with last year, so the enrollment or degree production per The number of new computing degrees, but this may be affected by the expectation for fewer degrees in the tenure-track faculty member (Figures majors among U.S. CS departments categorization of several institutions coming year is consistent with the total M1 and M2). rose 6.7 percent (7.4 percent among whose computer science departments enrollment trend. those departments reporting both this and schools of information report About two-thirds of the total Bachelor’s (Tables B1-B6; year and last year). This is the fourth jointly. New student enrollment master’s graduates from U.S. CS Figures B1-B4) straight year of increased enrollment increased in aggregate among departments came from public For the second straight year, there in computing majors by new students. departments offering I programs but institutions. A slightly smaller was a double-digit percentage increase Total enrollment in computing majors decreased among those offering CE proportion of total master’s in bachelor’s degree production. among U.S. CS departments increased programs (though it increased among students (63 percent) attend Among all departments reporting, 5.9 percent in aggregate (9.6 percent CE departments that reported both public universities, and an even the increase was 10.4 percent, but if among departments reporting both years). Total enrollment in both CE smaller proportion of new master’s only those departments that reported this year and last year). and I programs increased in aggregate, students (about 58 percent) attend both years are counted, the increase The number of CE degrees also though total enrollment decreased in universities. These fractions are was 12.9 percent. Similar increases increased significantly this year, among I departments that reported both smaller than their doctoral level hold in U.S. CS departments (10.5 U.S. CE departments and among U.S. years. These data suggest increased counterparts. There appears to be no percent overall and 12.9 percent CS departments who also give CE interest in undergraduate computing strong correlation among U.S. CS among those departments who degrees. Degrees in the information degrees of all types within the U.S. departments, either public or private, reported both years). area also increased significantly among It should be noted that the numbers between department size and master’s U.S. departments offering information for CE and I departments are more

Table M6. Total Master’s Enrollment by Department Type CS CE I Total Department Type Total # Avg / Total # Avg / Total # Dept Avg / Total # Dept Avg / Depts Dept Depts Dept Dept Dept US CS Public 8,048 98 82.1 895 22 40.7 1088 11 98.9 10,031 98 102.4 US CS Private 4,726 34 139.0 185 6 30.8 1495 4 373.8 6,406 34 188.4 Total US CS 12,774 132 96.8 1080 28 38.6 2583 15 172.2 16,437 132 124.5 US CE 0 0 950 9 105.6 0 0 950 9 105.6 US Info 0 0 0 0 2916 12 243.0 2,916 12 243.0 Canadian 1,114 12 92.8 98 2 49.0 0 0 1,212 12 101.0 Grand Total 13,888 144 96.4 2,128 39 54.6 5,499 27 203.7 21,515 165 130.4

Figure M1. Master’s Degrees Granted by Tenure-Track Size Figure M2. Master’s Enrollment Normalized by Tenure-Track Size CRA Taulbee Survey 2011 CRA Taulbee Survey 2011

Table B1. Bachelor’s Degrees Awarded by Department Type Department Type # Depts CS CE I Total US CS Public 99 6,358 68.5% 1301 61.8% 993 41.1% 8,652 62.7% US CS Private 34 1,792 19.3% 180 8.6% 322 13.3% 2,294 16.6% Total US CS 133 8,150 87.8% 1481 70.4% 1315 54.4% 10,946 79.3% US CE 10 0 0.0% 561 26.7% 0 0.0% 561 4.1% US Info 9 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1095 45.3% 1,095 7.9% Canadian 13 1,136 12.2% 62 2.9% 6 0.2% 1,204 8.7% Grand Total 165 9,286 2,104 2,416 13,806

Table B2. Bachelor’s Degrees Awarded by Gender CS CE I Total Male 7,983 88.3% 1,856 88.2% 1,993 82.5% 11,832 87.3% Female 1,057 11.7% 248 11.8% 422 17.5% 1,727 12.7% Total Known Gender 9,040 2,104 2,415 13,559 Gender Unknown 246 0 1 247 Grand Total 9,286 2,104 2,416 13,806

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2010-2011 Taulbee Survey volatile due to the small number The fraction of women among increased fractions of Asians and Larger U.S. CS departments tend to reporting in each of these areas. bachelor’s graduates decreased in CS Hispanics. Overall, across the three grant more bachelor’s degrees per Canadian statistics also are this year, from 13.8 percent in 2009- degree areas, about 65 percent of the tenure-track faculty member, and volatile due to the small number of 10 to 11.7 percent in 2010-11. In CE graduates were White, 15 percent public universities tend to grant departments reporting. In aggregate, and I, the fraction of female graduates Asian, 7 percent Non-resident Aliens, more bachelor’s degrees per tenure- they show slightly decreased degree increased, to 11.8 percent in CE and and 13 percent all other ethnicity track faculty member than do private production, but Canadian response to to 17.5 percent in I. This year there was categories combined. universities. While private universities the survey was unusually low this year a smaller percentage of Whites and Among U.S. CS departments, also have higher enrollments per and among Canadian departments greater percentages of Non-resident between 78 and 80 percent of the total tenure-track faculty member in larger reporting both years, there was an 11 Alien, Black and Hispanic graduates bachelor’s degrees, new bachelor’s departments, public universities percent increase in bachelor’s degree in CE programs. CS programs, on the students and total bachelor’s students exhibit a less clear trend in enrollment production. New student enrollment other hand, showed a slight increase in are from public universities. These per tenure-track faculty as department among Canadian departments that the proportion of Whites and a slight levels are higher than their master’s size increases (Figures B3 and B4). reported both years increased by 3.6 decrease in the proportion of Non- and doctoral level counterparts in all percent, but total enrollment in these resident Alien graduates. I programs cases except new bachelor’s students, departments was down a little less had a smaller fraction of Whites, where they are approximately the than one percent. Blacks and Non-resident Aliens, and same as for new doctoral students.

Table B3. Bachelor’s Degrees Awarded by Ethnicity CS CE I Total Nonresident Alien 524 7.0% 179 10.0% 78 3.6% 781 6.8% Amer Indian or Alaska Native 39 0.5% 8 0.4% 16 0.7% 63 0.5% Asian 1,115 14.8% 337 18.8% 302 13.9% 1,754 15.3% Black or African-American 274 3.6% 106 5.9% 151 6.9% 531 4.6% Native Hawaiian/Pac Islander 22 0.3% 7 0.4% 8 0.4% 37 0.3% White 5026 66.9% 981 54.7% 1432 65.8% 7,439 64.8% Multiracial, not Hispanic 104 1.4% 28 1.6% 3 0.1% 135 1.2% Hispanic, any race 409 5.4% 146 8.1% 187 8.6% 742 6.5% Total Residency & Ethnicity Known 7,513 1,792 2,177 11,482 Resident, ethnicity unknown 741 200 99 1,040 Residency unknown 1032 112 140 1,284 Grand Total 9,286 2,104 2,416 13,806

Table B4. Bachelor’s Degrees Expected Next Year by Department Type Department Type # Depts CS CE I Total US CS Public 99 6,497 63.5% 1238 65.3% 780 33.6% 8,515 59.0% US CS Private 34 2,104 20.6% 250 13.2% 387 16.7% 2,741 19.0% Total US CS 133 8,601 84.1% 1488 78.5% 1167 50.3% 11,256 77.9% US CE 10 0 0.0% 287 15.1% 0 0.0% 287 2.0% US Info 9 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1126 48.6% 1,126 7.8% Canadian 13 1,628 15.9% 121 6.4% 26 1.1% 1,775 12.3% Grand Total 165 10,229 1,896 2,319 14,444

Table B5. New Bachelor’s Students by Department Type CS CE I Total Avg. Avg. Avg. Avg. Pre- Major Pre- Major Pre- Major Total Major Department Type Major # Dept Major # Dept Major # Dept major per major per major per Major per Dept. Dept. Dept. Dept. US CS Public 8,237 3080 98 84.1 1583 391 33 48.0 931 117 22 42.3 10,751 109.7 US CS Private 2073 303 34 61.0 219 5 9 24.3 357 6 5 71.4 2,649 77.9 US CS Total 10,310 3383 132 78.1 1802 396 42 42.9 1288 123 27 47.7 13,400 101.5 US CE 0 0 0 0.0 262 181 9 29.1 0 0 0 0.0 262 29.1 US Information 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0.0 533 348 8 66.6 533 66.6 Canadian 2010 474 13 154.6 74 0 3 24.7 0 0 0 0.0 2,084 160.3 Grand Total 12,320 3,857 145 85.0 2,138 577 54 39.6 1,821 471 35 52.0 16,279 100.5

Table B6. Total Bachelor’s Enrollment by Department Type CS CE I Total Avg. Avg. Avg. Avg. Department Pre- # Major Pre- Major Pre- Major Major Type Major major Depts per Major major Total per Major major Total per Major per Dept. Dept. Dept. Dept. US CS Public 29,163 5747 98 297.6 5398 987 33 163.6 3875 299 22 176.1 38,436 388.2 US CS Private 7852 248 34 230.9 725 9 9 80.6 248 0 5 49.6 8,825 259.6 US CS Total 37,015 5995 132 280.4 6123 996 42 145.8 5814 299 27 215.3 48,952 368.1 US CE 0 0 0 0.0 1603 235 9 178.1 0 0 0 0.0 1,603 160.3 US Information 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0.0 3063 838 8 382.9 3,063 340.3 Canadian 6744 340 13 518.8 274 0 3 91.3 0 0 0 0.0 7,018 539.8 Grand Total 43,759 6,335 145 301.8 8,000 1,231 54 148.1 8,877 1,137 35 253.6 60,636 367.5

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Figure B1. BS Production (CS & CE) Figure B3. Bachelor’s Degrees Granted by Tenure-Track Size CRA Taulbee Survey 2011

Figure B2. Newly Declared CS/CE Undergraduate Majors Figure B4. Bachelor’s Enrollment Normalized by Tenure-Track Size CRA Taulbee Survey 2011

CRA-W Graduate Cohort Meeting Bellevue, Washington

April 13–14, 2012 POSTER SESSIONS

Top left: Pictured at the recent Grad Cohort meeting (l to r) are Piyali Dey (North Carolina State University), Grad Cohort Co-Chair Lori Clarke (UMass), and Bushra Anjum (North Carolina State University).

Top right: Wen Wang, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, discusses her poster with a Cohort attendee.

Bottom left: Karla Saur (left), University of Maryland-College Park, talks with conference speaker Kathryn McKinley from Microsoft Research during the poster session.

Bottom right: Rasna Walia, Iowa State University, in conversation with another Cohort attendee about her poster.

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2010-2011 Taulbee Survey Faculty Demographics separate EE from CE faculty. U.S. only computing-related faculty, so departments are smaller than their (Tables F1-F7)6 I departments showed an overall departments with Library Science or U.S. CS departments in all categories. Table F1 shows the current increase in faculty numbers, consistent EE programs may report only part of Table F2 summarizes faculty hiring and anticipated sizes, in FTE, for with their increased number of their faculty. this past year. There were 245 tenure- tenure-track, teaching and research departments reporting. Total counts Private universities also tend track vacancies reported in 2010-11 vs. faculty, and postdocs. In U.S. CS of teaching and research faculty and to have more research faculty and 211 in 2009-10 with more departments departments, the total tenure-track of postdocs are similar to those for last postdocs than do public universities reporting in 2009-10. Of these faculty count of 3,455 is about 6 year despite the decreased number of on average, though the teaching faculty vacant positions, 37.6 percent were percent lower than that of last year, departments reporting. per department is similar in public reported unfilled, higher than the but this is consistent with the decrease Among U.S. CS departments, the and private universities. Canadian 29.9 percent in 2009-10. Public and in the number of departments average tenure-track faculty size is departments have more teaching private universities had similar success reporting this year. Canadian slightly larger at private universities faculty than do U.S. departments, rates, but the overall U.S. CS success departments also showed a significant than at public universities. Canadian and have roughly the same number rate was only around 60 percent, decrease in faculty numbers due to universities, on average, have more of postdocs per department as do while U.S. CE, U.S. I, and Canadian the decreased number of departments tenure-track faculty members per private U.S. CS departments. U.S. departments did much better. For the reporting. U.S. CE departments department than do U.S. universities, I departments have slightly more first time, we report in Table F2a the showed a decrease in total tenure- while on average U.S. I departments teaching faculty as compared with U.S. reasons why positions went unfilled. track faculty count despite a slight are smaller than U.S. CS departments CS departments, but have research We will examine trends on this in increase in the number of departments and U.S. CE departments are smaller faculty and postdoc averages more subsequent survey reports. reporting, but this reflects a correction still. These last two may reflect the in line with U.S. CS departments The fraction of women hired into in some ECE departments to better fact that we ask departments to report at public universities. U.S. CE tenure-track positions (Table F3) fell

Table F1. Actual and Anticipated Faculty Size by Position and Department Type Actual Projected Expected 2-Yr 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 Growth US CS Public Total Average Total Average Total Average # % TenureTrack 2,485 24.9 2,530 25.3 2,608 26.1 123 4.9% Teaching 375 3.8 349 3.5 361 3.6 -14 -3.7% Research 249 2.5 279 2.8 299 3.0 50 20.1% Postdoc 284 2.8 325 3.3 348 3.5 64 22.5% Total 3,393 33.9 3,483 34.8 3,616 36.2 223 6.6% US CS Private TenureTrack 970 26.9 1,012 28.1 1,043 29.0 73 7.5% Teaching 146 4.1 151 4.2 154 4.3 8 5.5% Research 138 3.8 141 3.9 145 4.0 7 5.1% Postdoc 238 6.6 267 7.4 282 7.8 44 18.5% Total 1,492 41.4 1,571 43.6 1,624 45.1 132 8.8% All US CS TenureTrack 3,455 25.4 3,542 26.0 3,651 26.8 196 5.7% Teaching 521 3.8 500 3.7 515 3.8 -6 -1.2% Research 387 2.8 420 3.1 444 3.3 57 14.7% Postdoc 522 3.8 592 4.4 630 4.6 108 20.7% Total 4,885 35.9 5,054 37.2 5,240 38.5 355 7.3% US CE TenureTrack 157 14.3 162 14.7 165 15.0 8 5.1% Teaching 16 1.5 17 1.5 19 1.7 3 18.8% Research 13 1.2 15 1.4 17 1.5 4 30.8% Postdoc 19 1.7 19 1.7 22 2.0 3 15.8% Total 205 18.6 213 19.4 223 20.3 18 8.8% US I TenureTrack 267 20.5 288 22.2 301 23.2 34 12.7% Teaching 60 4.6 63 4.8 64 4.9 4 6.7% Research 33 2.5 36 2.8 39 3.0 6 18.2% Postdoc 31 2.4 37 2.8 37 2.8 6 19.4% Total 391 30.1 424 32.6 441 33.9 50 12.8% Canadian TenureTrack 487 37.5 497 38.2 502 38.6 15 3.1% Teaching 72 5.5 73 5.6 73 5.6 1 1.4% Research 14 1.1 14 1.1 14 1.1 0 0.0% Postdoc 84 6.5 78 6.0 78 6.0 -6 -7.1% Total 657 50.5 662 50.9 667 51.3 10 1.5% Grand Total TenureTrack 4,366 25.2 4,489 25.9 4,619 26.7 253 5.8% Teaching 669 3.9 653 3.8 671 3.9 2 0.3% Research 447 2.6 485 2.8 514 3.0 67 15.0% Postdoc 656 3.8 726 4.2 767 4.4 111 16.9% Total 6,138 35.5 6,353 36.7 6,571 38.0 433 7.1%

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Table F2. Vacant Positions 2010-2011 by Position and sharply in 2010-11, to 21.3 percent associate professor rank (Table F6), Department Type from 26.5 percent in 2009-10. The to 17.9 percent from 15.9 percent last 2010-11 level is similar to that of 2007- year. The overall fraction of female Tried to Filled Unfilled % 08. However, this year’s fraction of assistant professors dropped slightly, fill Unfilled new female hires still outpaces the from 25.8 percent to 25.3 percent, and US CS Public 18.4 percent of new female Ph.D.s the overall fraction of full professors produced this past year. The fraction held steady (12.7 percent). The overall TenureTrack 120 70 50 41.7% of women among new teaching fraction of women among teaching Teaching 81 72 9 11.1% faculty also fell this year compared faculty is slightly lower this year Research 92 83 9 9.8% with 2009-10. However, the fraction (27.0 percent vs. 27.8 percent), while Postdoc 123 107 16 13.0% of women among new postdocs rose the fraction of women among both Total 416 332 84 20.2% again this year, from 19.5 percent to research faculty and postdocs is quite 23.6 percent. This year there was a a bit higher this year (24.2 percent US CS Private large increase in the percentage of new vs. 19.0 percent for research faculty TenureTrack 84 52 32 38.1% faculty members whose race/ethnicity and 21.1 percent vs. 15.8 percent for Teaching 34 33 1 2.9% is unknown (to 25.2 percent from 5.6 postdocs). For the second year in a Research 29 28 1 3.4% percent). This makes race/ethnicity row, there is a larger fraction of Whites comparisons with last year less reliable and a smaller fraction of Asians and Postdoc 75 74 1 1.3% (Table F4). Non-resident Aliens among current Total 222 187 35 15.8% There was a slight increase in the assistant professors this year compared All US CS overall number of faculty losses this with last year (Table F7). TenureTrack 204 122 82 40.2% year, due to an increased number of For next year, reporting persons taking positions elsewhere departments forecast a 2.8 percent Teaching 115 105 10 8.7% (either academic or nonacademic). No growth in tenure-track faculty, similar Research 121 111 10 8.3% significant change in retirements is yet to what was forecast last year. The Postdoc 198 181 17 8.6% evident (Table F5). largest forecast growth is in U.S. I Total 638 519 119 18.7% This year there was an increase in departments. Departments overall also US CE the overall fraction of women at the forecast a large increase in postdocs TenureTrack 17 12 5 29.4% Teaching 11 11 0 0.0% Table F2a. Reasons Positions Left Unfilled Research 10 10 0 0.0% # % of Postdoc 4 4 0 0.0% Reason Reported Reasons Total 42 37 5 11.9% Didn’t find a good fit 30 36.6% US I TenureTrack 16 12 4 25.0% Offers turned down 28 34.1% Teaching 5 5 0 0.0% Technically vacant, not filled for admin reasons 14 17.1% Research 27 26 1 3.7% Hiring in progress 8 9.8% Postdoc 20 17 3 15.0% Other 2 2.4% Total 68 60 8 11.8% Total Reasons Provided 82 Canadian TenureTrack 8 7 1 12.5% Teaching 1 0 1 100.0% Research 0 0 0 0.0% Table F5. Faculty Losses Postdoc 16 16 0 0.0% Died 8 Total 25 23 2 8.0% Retired 67 Grand Total Took Academic Position Elsewhere 52 TenureTrack 245 153 92 37.6% Took Nonacademic Position 34 Teaching 132 121 11 8.3% Remained, but Changed to Part Time 12 Research 158 147 11 7.0% Other 36 Postdoc 238 218 20 8.4% Unknown 4 Total 773 639 134 17.3% Total 213

Table F3. Gender of Newly Hired Faculty Tenure-Track Teaching Research Postdoc Total Male 203 78.7% 61 75.3% 51 85.0% 110 76.4% 425 78.3% Female 55 21.3% 20 24.7% 9 15.0% 34 23.6% 118 21.7% Unknown 0 0 0 0 0 Total 258 81 60 144 543

Table F4. Ethnicity of Newly Hired Faculty Tenure-Track Teaching Research Postdoc Total Nonresident Alien 34 13.6% 8 10.0% 11 18.3% 51 35.7% 104 19.5% American Indian / Alaska Native 2 0.8% 2 2.5% 1 1.7% 0 0.0% 5 0.9% Asian 40 16.0% 6 7.5% 8 13.3% 29 20.3% 83 15.6% Black or African-American 6 2.4% 2 2.5% 1 1.7% 2 1.4% 11 2.1% Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islander 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% White 98 39.2% 58 72.5% 31 51.7% 41 28.7% 228 42.8% Multiracial, not Hispanic 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% Hispanic, any race 7 2.8% 1 1.3% 2 3.3% 8 5.6% 18 3.4% Resident, race/ethnic unknown 63 25.2% 3 3.8% 6 10.0% 12 8.4% 84 15.8% Total known residency 250 100.0% 80 100.0% 60 100.0% 143 100.0% 533 100.0% Residency Unknown 8 1 0 1 10 Total 258 81 60 144 543

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2010-2011 Taulbee Survey (more than 10 percent), and a healthy project budgets) from external sources levels are shown in Canadian the range at U.S. public universities is 8.5 percent increase in research faculty of support. Figures R1 and R2 show dollars. The U.S. CS data for public much greater than that at U.S. private for next year. the per capita expenditure, where institutions indicate that the larger universities, there is no difference capitation is computed two ways. the department, the more external in the median research expenditures Research Expenditures The first (Figure R1) is relative to funding is received by the department overall among U.S. public and U.S. (Table R1; Figures R1-R2) the number of tenure-track faculty (both in total and per capita). Average private universities. Table R1 shows the department’s members. The second (Figure R2) is research expenditures at private total expenditure (including indirect relative to researchers and postdocs as institutions are much less affected by costs or “overhead” as stated on well as tenure-track faculty. Canadian the size of the department. Though

Table F6. Gender of Current Faculty Full Associate Assistant Teaching Research Postdoc Total Male 1,837 87.3% 1,331 82.1% 602 74.7% 513 73.0% 373 75.8% 508 78.9% 5,164 81.0% Female 268 12.7% 291 17.9% 204 25.3% 190 27.0% 119 24.2% 136 21.1% 1,208 19.0% Unknown 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 Total 2,105 1,622 806 703 493 645 6,374

Table F7. Ethnicity of Current Faculty Full Associate Assistant Teaching Research Postdoc Total Nonresident Alien 12 0.6% 37 2.5% 97 12.7% 14 2.1% 86 19.1% 205 35.8% 451 7.6% American Indian / 2 0.1% 4 0.3% 3 0.4% 7 1.1% 0 0.0% 3 0.5% 19 0.3% Alaska Native Asian 415 21.0% 415 27.8% 196 25.7% 50 7.6% 57 12.7% 111 19.4% 1,244 21.0% Black or African- 12 0.6% 21 1.4% 23 3.0% 22 3.3% 3 0.7% 2 0.3% 83 1.4% American Native Hawaiian/ 1 0.1% 3 0.2% 1 0.1% 0 0.0% 1 0.2% 0 0.0% 6 0.1% Pacific Islander White 1,446 73.2% 924 61.8% 393 51.5% 536 81.5% 262 58.2% 200 35.0% 3,761 63.6% Multiracial, not 3 0.2% 3 0.2% 0 0.0% 1 0.2% 1 0.2% 0 0.0% 8 0.1% Hispanic Hispanic, any race 33 1.7% 35 2.3% 25 3.3% 16 2.4% 13 2.9% 15 2.6% 137 2.3% Resident, race/ 51 2.6% 52 3.5% 25 3.3% 12 1.8% 27 6.0% 36 6.3% 203 3.4% ethnic unknown Total known 1,975 100% 1,494 100% 763 100% 658 100% 450 100% 572 100% 5,912 100% residency Residency Unknown 130 128 43 45 43 73 462 Total 2,105 1,622 806 703 493 645 6,374

Table R1. Total Expenditure from External Sources for Computing Research Percentile of Department Averages # Department 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th Type Depts US CS Public 89 $353,575 $1,589,069 $3,985,530 $8,742,962 $14,174,188 US CS Private 34 $679,354 $2,207,404 $3,961,312 $6,794,415 $13,652,591 US CE 6 $2,254,241 US Information 13 $672,550 $1,038,805 $3,418,272 $4,611,649 $10,886,456 Canadian 9 $1,268,200

Figure R1. Research Expenditures Normalized by Figure R2. Research Expenditures Normalized by Tenure-Track Size Tenure-Track + Research Faculty + Postdoctorates CRA Taulbee Survey 2011 CRA Taulbee Survey 2011

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2010-2011 Taulbee Survey Graduate Student Support year, but this is a lower rate than the year. Canadian numbers are down departments tend to offer higher (Tables G1-G2; Figures decrease in number of departments as befits the decrease in number of stipends, though for full-support G1-G3) reporting. A similar situation exists in departments reporting this year. fellows this difference doesn’t become Table G1 shows the number of total RA support; this is coupled with Table G2 shows the distribution very visible until the department size graduate students supported as full- a significant increase in the fraction of stipends for TAs, RAs, and full- is above 20. Departments located in time students as of fall 2011, further of RAs supported on external funds. support fellows. U.S. CS data are larger population centers also tend to categorized as teaching assistants The number of full-support fellows further broken down in this table by pay higher stipends to TAs and RAs, (TAs), research assistants (RAs), and rose with respect to both institutional public and private institution, and the as would be expected. The data for full-support fellows, and also shows the fund and external fund support. U.S. higher stipends at private institutions full-support fellows exhibit no clear split between those on institutional CE and U.S. I programs each show are evident. Figures G1-G3 further trend relative to locale. vs. external funds. The number of significant drops in the number of break down the U.S. CS data by the TAs on institutional funds in CS supported RAs, despite an increased size of department and the geographic departments decreased 3 percent this number of departments reporting this location of the university. Larger

Table G1. Graduate Students Supported as Full-Time Students by Department Type On Institutional Funds On External Funds Total Department # Teaching Research Full-Support Teaching Research Full-Support Type Dept Assistants Assistants Fellows Assistants Assistants Fellows US CS Public 100 2,246 31.1% 753 10.4% 288 4.0% 7 0.1% 3,616 50.0% 319 4.4% 7,229 US CS Private 36 729 24.7% 286 9.7% 207 7.0% 17 0.6% 1,489 50.5% 223 7.6% 2,951 US CS Total 136 2,975 29.2% 1,039 10.2% 495 4.9% 24 0.2% 5,105 50.1% 542 5.3% 10,180 US CE 11 75 29.2% 12 4.7% 7 2.7% 0 0.0% 157 61.1% 6 2.3% 257 US I 13 82 28.1% 93 31.8% 16 5.5% 0 0.0% 76 26.0% 25 8.6% 292 Canadian 13 311 31.5% 210 21.3% 154 15.6% 0 0.0% 217 22.0% 95 9.6% 987 Grand Total 173 3,443 29.4% 1,354 11.6% 672 5.7% 24 0.2% 5,555 47.4% 668 5.7% 11,716

Table G2. Fall 2011 Academic-Year Graduate Stipends by Department Type and Support Type Teaching Assistantships Percentiles of Department Averages # Department Type 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th Depts US CS Public 93 $10,528 $13,473 $15,751 $17,350 $20,026 US CS Private 28 $9,953 $17,426 $20,223 $24,255 $28,210 US CE 9 $16,015 US Information 9 $18,500 Canadian 9 $17,000 Research Assistantships Percentiles of Department Averages # Department Type 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th Depts US CS Public 92 $12,000 $14,813 $16,401 $18,816 $21,313 US CS Private 33 $17,046 $18,133 $21,100 $25,095 $28,400 US CE 8 $16,737 US Information 10 $10,241 $16,379 $18,834 $21,850 $22,450 Canadian 9 $17,000 Full-Support Fellows Percentiles of Department Averages # Department Type 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th Depts US CS Public 56 $13,974 $17,025 $20,251 $25,000 $30,000 US CS Private 24 $17,550 $20,355 $22,752 $28,396 $30,000 US CE 4 $25,000 US Information 8 $23,300 Canadian 3 $21,505

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2010-2011 Taulbee Survey Faculty Salaries (Tables S1- Figure G1. Teaching Assistantship Stipends CRA Taulbee Survey 2011 S4; Figures S1-S9) Each department was asked to report individual (but anonymous) faculty salaries if possible; otherwise, the department was requested to provide the minimum, median, mean, and maximum salaries for each rank (full, associate, and assistant professors and non-tenure- track teaching faculty including post-doctorates) and the number of persons at each rank. The salaries are those in effect on January 1, 2012. For U.S. departments, nine-month salaries are reported in U.S. dollars. For Canadian departments, twelve- month salaries are reported in Canadian dollars. Respondents were asked to include salary supplements such as salary monies from endowed positions. U.S. CS data are reported via the box and whiskers diagrams. Data for CE, I, Canadian and new Ph.D.s Figure G2. Research Assistantship Stipends are reported via tables. Additional CRA Taulbee Survey 2011 salary tables (S5 to S15) for the U.S. CS departments are provided on pp. 22-24. The tables and diagrams contain distributional data (first decile, quartiles, and ninth decile) computed from the department averages only. Thus, for example, a table row labeled “50” or the median line in a diagram is the median of the averages for the departments that reported within the stratum (the number of such departments reporting is shown in the “depts” row). It therefore is not a true median of all of the salaries. Those departments reporting individual salaries were provided more comprehensive distributional information based on individual salaries in January 2012. This year, 88 percent of those reporting salary data provided salaries at the individual level. Figure G3. Full Support Fellows Stipends We also report salary data based CRA Taulbee Survey 2011 on time in rank, for meaningful comparison of individual or departmental faculty salaries with national averages. We report associate professor salaries for time in rank of 7 years or less, and of more than 7 years. For full professors, we report time in rank of 7 years or less, 8 to 15 years, and more than 15 years. Overall, the median of the reported U.S. CS average salaries increased between 1.3 and 6.6 percent, depending on tenure-track rank, and 3.3 percent for non-tenure-track teaching faculty. Full professor salaries had the widest variance, with 1.3 percent for full professors in rank 8-15 years and 6.6 percent for full professors in rank more than 15 years. Assistant professor salaries increased 2 percent and associate professor salary increases ranged from 2.4 to 3.3 percent. The median of average salaries in I departments increased 2 percent for assistant professors, 0 to 1 percent for associate professors, and 2 to 5 percent for full professors, depending on years in rank. For CE departments, assistant professor increases were 3.7 percent, associate professors in the 0 to 3 percent range, and full professors in the minus-2 to plus-2 percent range. Canadian salary

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2010-2011 Taulbee Survey changes were 3.7 percent for assistant Associate Professors in rank more than Concluding Observations is sufficiently qualified to meet the professors, 1 to 9 percent for associate 8 years the trend is less clear at both Computing enrollments at all collective needs of the community, but professors, and 4 to 11 percent for public and private institutions. For degree levels remain strong, and these hiring data will bear watching. full professors. The median of average full professors at private institutions, undergraduate enrollments continue salaries for new Ph.D.s in tenure- the trend is less clear, and for postdocs to exhibit healthy increases. Within Participating Departments track positions at U.S. departments there is little difference in either this context, the continued decline U.S. CS Public (105 (CS, CE and I combined) increased public or private institutions as a in the fraction of doctoral graduates departments): Arizona State, 4 percent. Because of the small function of size. who took tenure-track positions Auburn, City University of New York, number of departments reporting, Public universities in larger cities available at North American Ph.D.- Graduate Center, Clemson, College comparative salary comments for CE, I tend to have higher salaries for granting departments, coupled of William & Mary, Colorado School and Canadian departments should be tenure-track faculty than do their with a significant increase in the of Mines, Colorado State, Florida viewed with caution. counterparts in smaller locales, except fraction of such positions that went International, George Mason, Georgia In all faculty categories, salaries for full professors in rank more than unfilled in U.S. CS departments, is Tech, Georgia State, Indiana, Iowa in U.S. CS departments at private 15 years. It is difficult to make any worrisome. The somewhat improved State, Kansas State, Kent State, LSU, institutions tend to be higher statements about private universities U.S. economy appears to have made Michigan State, Michigan Technological, than their counterparts at public relative to locale, since there are very more industry positions available, Mississippi State, Montana State, Naval institutions. Larger departments also few such departments not located in putting further pressure on the Postgraduate School, New Jersey Institute tend to have higher salaries than large cities that reported salary data. ability to attract the best candidates. of Technology, New Mexico State, North do smaller departments, though for Hopefully the overall candidate pool Carolina State, North Dakota State,

Table S1. Nine-month Salaries, 8 Responses of 31 US Computer Engineering Departments, Percentiles from Department Averages Full Professor Associate Assistant Non-Tenure Track In rank In rank In rank Years not In rank In rank Years not Teach Research Postdoc 16+ yrs 8-15 yrs 0-7 years given 8+ years 0-7 years given Depts 9 10 8 2 9 10 3 10 7 5 6 Indiv 42 30 16 9 30 36 8 34 23 20 14 10 $111,575 * $87,082 $82,225 25 $113,775 * $93,031 $82,353 50 $142,564 $132,902 $111,304 * $93,948 $97,426 $101,028 $88,945 $81,170 $71,230 $45,816 75 $142,781 * $108,090 $93,664 90 $167,598 * $121,024 $99,746

Table S2. Nine-month Salaries, 13 Responses of 23 US Information Departments, Percentiles from Department Averages Full Professor Associate Assistant Non-Tenure Track In rank In rank In rank Years not In rank In rank Years not Teach Research Postdoc 16+ yrs 8-15 yrs 0-7 years given 8+ years 0-7 years given Depts 10 13 12 0 11 14 0 14 12 10 10 Indiv 23 46 50 0 42 76 0 86 82 43 36 10 $95,794 $106,740 $112,364 $76,498 $69,843 $72,241 $41,723 $35,974 $6,752 25 $117,330 $113,949 $122,944 $82,498 $85,078 $76,563 $60,639 $68,999 $40,749 50 $138,381 $141,355 $136,441 $101,355 $102,685 $89,279 $71,180 $86,463 $48,125 75 $180,858 $160,901 $142,724 $106,473 $107,445 $96,317 $85,065 $110,046 $55,083 90 $250,168 $166,344 $161,356 $126,364 $110,610 $99,562 $98,762 $126,344 $59,533

Table S3. Nine-month Salaries, 11 Responses of 30 Canadian Departments, Percentiles from Department Averages Full Professor Associate Assistant Non-Tenure Track In rank In rank In rank Years not In rank In rank Years not Teach Research Postdoc 16+ yrs 8-15 yrs 0-7 years given 8+ years 0-7 years given Depts 11 10 10 1 11 11 1 10 9 3 7 Indiv 57 53 60 2 61 133 1 52 36 5 64 10 $132,106 $130,776 $114,076 * $111,197 $101,224 * $84,993 25 $148,464 $146,148 $136,334 * $115,734 $109,625 * $90,513 50 $166,042 $153,362 $153,530 * $127,752 $126,331 * $101,217 $84,089 $50,439 $47,325 75 $191,274 $164,121 $165,715 * $135,084 $133,559 * $110,763 90 $205,397 $178,105 $172,932 * $149,046 $139,857 * $114,313

Table S4. Nine-month Salaries for New PhDs US (CS, CE, and Info Combined) Canadian See pp. 22-24 for additional salary tables Tenure- Non-ten Non-ten Tenure- Non-ten Non-ten Postdoc Postdoc Track Teaching Research Track Teaching Research (S5 - S15) covering U.S. CS departments. Depts 43 12 10 40 2 0 0 4 Indiv 70 16 14 124 2 0 0 23 10 $80,274 $14,643 $4,000 $36,174 * 25 $86,000 $51,250 $56,988 $42,215 * 50 $90,000 $65,296 $68,050 $49,699 * $48,905 75 $95,000 $71,500 $76,925 $59,427 * 90 $97,960 $91,140 $94,625 $68,641 *

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2010-2011 Taulbee Survey Ohio State, Ohio, Old Dominion, U.S. CS Private (37 (Chapel Hill), Pittsburgh, Texas (Austin), years are invited to contact survey@ Oregon State, Penn State, Portland departments): Boston University, Brown and Washington. cra.org for inclusion. State, Purdue, Rutgers, Southern Illinois University, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western Canadian (13 departments): 3Classification of the population of Carbondale, Stony Brook (SUNY), Texas Reserve, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Concordia, McGill, Memorial University an institution’s locale is in accordance A&M, Texas Tech, the Universities DePaul, Drexel, Duke, Florida Institute of Newfoundland, Simon Fraser; with the Carnegie Classification at Albany and Buffalo (SUNY); of Technology, Harvard, Illinois Institute Universities of British Columbia, database. Large cities are those with Universities of Alabama (Birmingham of Technology, Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, Calgary, Manitoba, Ottawa, population >= 250,000. Mid-size cities and Tuscaloosa), Arizona, Arkansas at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Saskatchewan, Toronto, Waterloo, and have population between 100,000 and Little Rock, California (Berkeley, Davis, New York, Northeastern, Northwestern, Western Ontario; York. 250,000. Town/rural populations are Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Pace, Polytechnic, Princeton, Rensselaer, less than 100,000. Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz), Rice, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1The title of the survey honors the 4Carla Brodley, Susanne Central Florida, Cincinnati, Colorado Stanford, Stevens Institute of Technology, late Orrin E. Taulbee of the University Hambrusch, Jim Kurose, CRA (Boulder), Connecticut, Delaware, Toyota Technological Institute, Tufts; the of Pittsburgh, who conducted these Executive Director Andy Bernat Florida, Georgia, Houston, Idaho, Illinois Universities of Chicago, Notre Dame, surveys for the Computer Science and the authors comprised the (Chicago and Urbana-Champaign), Pennsylvania, Rochester, and Tulsa; Board until 1984, with retrospective Surveys Committee that made Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana Washington University in St. Louis, annual data going back to 1970. the recommendations for the new at Lafayette, Maryland, Maryland Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Yale. 2Information (I) programs included stratifications. Baltimore County, Massachusetts U.S. Computer Engineering here are Information Science, 5All ethnicity tables: Ethnic (Amherst, Boston), Michigan, Minnesota, (13 departments): Boston University, Information Systems, Information breakdowns are drawn from guidelines Mississippi, Missouri (Columbia), Florida Institute of Technology, Mississippi Technology, Informatics, and related set forth by the U.S. Department of Nebraska (Omaha, Lincoln), Nevada State, North Carolina State, Northeastern, disciplines with a strong computing Education. (Las Vegas, Reno), New Hampshire, New Ohio State, Santa Clara; Universities of component. In fall 2008, the first 6All faculty tables: The survey Mexico, North Carolina (Chapel Hill, California (Santa Cruz), Illinois (Urbana year these programs were surveyed makes no distinction between faculty Charlotte), North Texas, Oklahoma, Champaign), Iowa, New Mexico, and as part of Taulbee, surveys were sent specializing in CS vs. CE programs. Oregon, Pittsburgh, Rhode Island, South Southern California; Virginia Tech. to CRA members, the CRA Deans Every effort is made to minimize Carolina, South Florida, Tennessee U.S. Information Programs group members, and participants in the inclusion of faculty in electrical (Knoxville), Texas (Arlington, Austin, (16 departments): Cornell, Drexel, the iSchools Caucus (www.ischools. engineering who are not computer Dallas), Utah, Virginia, Washington, Indiana, Penn State, Syracuse, University org) that met the criteria of granting engineers. Wisconsin (Madison), and Wyoming; at Albany (SUNY); Universities of Ph.D.s and being located in North Virginia Commonwealth, Virginia Tech, California (Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, America. Other I-programs who Washington State, Wayne State, Western Santa Cruz), Maryland Baltimore meet these criteria and would like Michigan, and Wright State. County, Michigan, North Carolina to participate in the survey in future

Figure S1. US CS Department Average Salary, Figure S3. US CS Department Average Salary, Full Professor in Rank 16+ years Full Professor in Rank 0-7 years CRA Taulbee Survey 2011 CRA Taulbee Survey 2011

Figure S2. US CS Department Average Salary, Figure S4. US CS Department Average Salary, Full Professor in Rank 8-15 years Full Professor in Rank 0-7 years CRA Taulbee Survey 2011 CRA Taulbee Survey 2011

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Figure S5. US CS Department Average Salary, Figure S8. US CS Department Average Salary, Associate Professor in Rank 0-7 years Non-Tenure Track Research Facility CRA Taulbee Survey 2011 CRA Taulbee Survey 2011

Figure S6. US CS Department Average Salary, Associate Professor Figure S9. US CS Department Average Salary, Postdoctorates CRA Taulbee Survey 2011 CRA Taulbee Survey 2011

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Table S5. Nine-month Salaries, 137 Responses of 184 US CS Departments, Percentiles from Department Averages Full Professor Associate Assistant Non-Tenure Track In rank In rank In rank Years not In rank In rank Years not 16+ yrs 8-15 yrs 0-7 years given 8+ years 0-7 years given Teach Research Postdoc Depts 106 114 112 8 98 123 10 126 113 67 71 Indiv 505 517 548 58 305 828 79 626 473 379 460 10 117,072 115,636 102,415 87,097 91,945 94,557 81,956 51,596 47,766 39,981 25 129,385 126,338 114,356 93,915 97,391 97,994 87,131 58,337 68,019 45,050 50 149,576 140,096 131,337 142,907 100,241 104,999 104,289 91,793 68,713 86,865 49,975 75 166,752 161,762 146,736 111,284 111,082 119,662 95,709 81,053 102,315 57,475 90 183,279 177,714 160,674 118,262 119,551 159,143 101,029 96,895 118,755 61,651

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Table S6. Nine-month Salaries, 102 Responses of 133 US CS Public (All Public), Percentiles from Department Averages Full Professor Associate Assistant Non-Tenure Track In rank In rank In rank Years not In rank In rank Years not Teach Research Postdoc 16+ yrs 8-15 yrs 0-7 years given 8+ years 0-7 years given Depts 80 89 84 7 79 93 8 94 84 46 53 Indiv 349 376 403 54 234 578 69 465 334 255 260 10 $117,553 $115,471 $100,254 $87,143 $90,212 $81,113 $51,361 $41,974 $38,635 25 $128,294 $124,853 $111,525 $92,422 $95,494 $85,937 $56,439 $61,274 $44,625 50 $146,267 $138,124 $127,642 $145,650 $98,134 $102,280 $104,289 $89,978 $64,624 $80,666 $49,041 75 $158,543 $149,308 $140,699 $109,023 $108,981 $93,306 $79,050 $100,264 $54,504 90 $173,997 $170,364 $153,424 . $116,907 $115,137 . $99,658 $96,405 $116,820 $60,546

Table S7. Nine-month Salaries, 35 Responses of 51 US CS Private (All Private), Percentiles from Department Averages Full Professor Associate Assistant Non-Tenure Track In rank In rank In rank Years not In rank In rank Years not 16+ yrs 8-15 yrs 0-7 years given 8+ years 0-7 years given Teach Research Postdoc Depts 26 25 28 1 19 30 2 32 29 21 18 Indiv 156 141 145 4 71 250 10 161 139 124 200 10 $114,467 $115,132 $110,692 * $86,689 $96,825 * $88,498 $55,050 $70,234 $41,772 25 $139,295 $130,466 $131,611 * $95,665 $103,565 * $91,768 $66,857 $79,500 $47,439 50 $163,611 $165,674 $146,564 * $111,078 $110,461 * $95,694 $77,425 $94,225 $55,455 75 $188,736 $181,824 $158,555 * $118,796 $120,997 * $100,838 $90,533 $111,620 $61,194 90 $200,218 $194,790 $173,036 * $125,900 $138,759 * $103,306 $105,850 $129,802 $66,374

Table S8. Nine-month Salaries, 28 Responses of US CS Public With <=15 Tenure-Track Faculty, Percentiles from Department Averages Full Professor Associate Assistant Non-Tenure Track In rank In rank In rank Years not In rank In rank Years not 16+ yrs 8-15 yrs 0-7 years given 8+ years 0-7 years given Teach Research Postdoc Depts 17 20 18 1 21 22 3 21 19 4 5 Indiv 38 39 32 4 55 67 13 66 51 7 7 10 $101,293 $103,480 $91,358 * $89,514 $83,196 $74,100 $43,000 25 $117,949 $116,815 $99,570 * $93,711 $92,139 $81,214 $52,653 50 $134,991 $126,961 $108,827 * $98,134 $98,702 $112,329 $87,024 $61,256 $87,650 $49,500 75 $149,732 $145,534 $126,650 * $113,329 $105,506 $90,633 $68,713 90 $173,706 $184,026 $143,480 * $117,777 $117,178 $97,029 $75,867

Table S9. Nine-month Salaries, 36 Responses of US CS Public With 10 < Tenure-Track Faculty <=20, Percentiles from Department Averages Full Professor Associate Assistant Non-Tenure Track In rank In rank In rank Years not In rank In rank Years not 16+ yrs 8-15 yrs 0-7 years given 8+ years 0-7 years given Teach Research Postdoc Depts 29 32 27 1 30 33 3 33 27 9 10 Indiv 76 69 64 5 78 135 17 113 75 16 22 10 $115,531 $108,313 $99,495 * $89,103 $89,599 $81,458 $44,550 $27,525 25 $124,230 $117,469 $101,801 * $93,915 $94,643 $86,024 $51,739 $35,805 50 $135,811 $125,925 $114,000 * $98,017 $98,897 $97,169 $88,000 $59,442 $80,301 $48,838 75 $149,732 $145,055 $129,506 * $108,277 $105,191 $91,917 $68,713 $53,138 90 $174,038 $170,387 $147,472 * $116,631 $110,641 $93,465 $76,174 $85,338

Table S10. Nine-month Salaries, 34 Responses of US CS Public With 15 < Tenure-Track Faculty <=25, Percentiles from Department Averages Full Professor Associate Assistant Non-Tenure Track In rank In rank In rank Years not In rank In rank Years not 16+ yrs 8-15 yrs 0-7 years given 8+ years 0-7 years given Teach Research Postdoc Depts 29 32 31 2 27 32 2 33 29 15 17 Indiv 88 96 100 16 74 168 18 126 101 72 47 10 $115,993 $111,343 $102,549 * $85,879 $89,845 * $81,654 $51,500 $43,459 $29,450 25 $125,934 $122,618 $110,649 * $89,623 $94,033 * $84,925 $54,260 $60,378 $40,382 50 $138,117 $134,838 $126,536 * $94,948 $99,518 * $88,722 $60,000 $65,700 $49,041 75 $158,446 $146,317 $135,039 * $102,700 $105,919 * $92,047 $71,492 $100,000 $57,455 90 $182,907 $150,491 $153,935 * $106,941 $110,512 * $96,562 $82,431 $117,667 $67,114

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Table S11. Nine-month Salaries, 31 Responses of US CS Public With 20 < Tenure-Track Faculty <=35, Percentiles from Department Averages Full Professor Associate Assistant Non-Tenure Track In rank In rank In rank Years not In rank In rank Years not 16+ yrs 8-15 yrs 0-7 years given 8+ years 0-7 years given Teach Research Postdoc Depts 27 29 27 2 26 30 1 31 27 18 22 Indiv 121 124 135 15 86 186 9 148 119 102 93 10 $121,302 $122,306 $103,004 * $84,456 $91,899 * $80,095 $52,544 $38,849 $38,668 25 $130,418 $128,574 $111,838 * $91,533 $93,928 * $83,389 $56,617 $47,708 $43,573 50 $150,563 $137,425 $129,014 * $98,612 $102,796 * $90,123 $71,015 $65,895 $49,211 75 $158,731 $150,511 $152,572 * $109,178 $110,837 * $93,211 $90,590 $99,586 $57,951 90 $177,200 $171,633 $165,933 * $113,951 $115,916 * $101,476 $102,471 $116,909 $60,147

Table S12. Nine-month Salaries, 29 Responses of US CS Public With Tenure-Track Faculty >30, Percentiles from Department Averages Full Professor Associate Assistant Non-Tenure Track In rank In rank In rank Years not In rank In rank Years not 16+ yrs 8-15 yrs 0-7 years given 8+ years 0-7 years given Teach Research Postdoc Depts 25 27 27 4 22 28 3 29 27 21 23 Indiv 182 196 210 34 75 266 38 215 146 150 174 10 $140,956 $125,626 $120,011 $85,124 $97,424 $87,388 $57,791 $44,377 $41,286 25 $149,092 $135,300 $126,521 $96,967 $99,450 $90,740 $63,664 $70,412 $46,000 50 $154,632 $141,355 $134,655 $142,907 $105,224 $107,913 $103,636 $93,056 $74,043 $82,874 $49,381 75 $166,757 $163,325 $143,948 $112,237 $111,619 $97,570 $89,256 $101,160 $57,116 90 $174,658 $171,530 $153,637 $118,826 $118,960 $100,788 $98,481 $127,447 $64,657

Table S13. Nine-month Salaries, 19 Responses of US CS Private With <=20 Tenure-Track Faculty, Percentiles from Department Averages Full Professor Associate Assistant Non-Tenure Track In rank In rank In rank Years not In rank In rank Years not 16+ yrs 8-15 yrs 0-7 years given 8+ years 0-7 years given Teach Research Postdoc Depts 11 11 13 1 9 16 2 18 15 10 9 Indiv 37 57 38 4 16 70 10 62 53 60 34 10 $111,619 $104,567 $106,653 * $95,598 * $88,080 $44,019 $71,575 25 $115,276 $131,040 $127,602 * $103,448 * $91,771 $62,668 $79,750 50 $161,272 $165,667 $149,250 * $112,747 $108,409 * $95,594 $74,000 $94,203 $55,243 75 $182,250 $189,771 $158,364 * $119,103 * $100,850 $82,046 $113,250 90 $190,791 $191,201 $169,862 * $142,775 * $108,143 $98,395 $140,779

Table S14. Nine-month Salaries, 17 Responses of US CS Private With 15 < Tenure-Track Faculty <=30, Percentiles from Department Averages Full Professor Associate Assistant Non-Tenure Track In rank In rank In rank Years not In rank In rank Years not 16+ yrs 8-15 yrs 0-7 years given 8+ years 0-7 years given Teach Research Postdoc Depts 13 13 13 0 7 15 0 16 14 11 13 Indiv 65 70 53 0 15 80 0 65 47 59 91 10 $140,623 $130,320 $136,547 * $100,749 $90,142 $44,643 $80,774 $44,571 25 $155,070 $165,670 $140,235 * $105,604 $92,222 $66,643 $92,184 $51,625 50 $182,250 $171,255 $148,769 $114,357 $111,542 $98,025 $78,695 $103,635 $57,475 75 $194,014 $190,288 $163,250 * $121,096 $100,575 $92,947 $118,649 $62,781 90 $225,408 $196,535 $173,073 * $143,450 $102,318 $106,528 $140,716 $69,500

Table S15. Nine-month Salaries, 15 Responses of US CS Private With Tenure-Track Faculty >20, Percentiles from Department Averages Full Professor Associate Assistant Non-Tenure Track In rank In rank In rank Years not In rank In rank Years not 16+ yrs 8-15 yrs 0-7 years given 8+ years 0-7 years given Teach Research Postdoc Depts 15 14 15 0 10 14 0 14 14 11 9 Indiv 119 84 107 0 55 180 0 99 86 64 166 10 $127,910 $114,711 $113,132 $92,533 $92,246 $86,449 $65,866 $63,088 25 $140,381 $129,879 $133,496 $95,351 $105,098 $91,495 $74,561 $78,800 50 $164,583 $165,789 $146,482 $109,318 $114,761 $98,723 $85,635 $103,635 $57,475 75 $193,512 $180,519 $161,500 $124,111 $124,766 $101,288 $94,785 $111,789 90 $220,622 $220,013 $183,570 $131,961 $137,265 $103,166 $106,038 $129,802

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Nestled in the Research Institute for Homeland Security, Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania, the college a secure, state-of-the-art research Center, is 70 miles north of Philadelphia and 70 designed to support private-public miles west of New York City. Lafayette multidisciplinary research teams in the College is committed to creating a diverse technical, legal, ethical, and policy-related community: one that is inclusive and issues associated with cybersecurity, responsive, and is supportive of each and resilience of critical systems and all of its faculty, students, and staff. infrastructure, and community resilience. All members of the College community Northeastern is also one of the partner share a responsibility for creating, institutions for the International Secure maintaining, and developing a learning Systems Laboratory. The university is environment in which difference is valued, a National Security Agency Center of equity is sought, and inclusiveness is Excellence in Information Assurance practiced. Lafayette College is an equal Research and Education. It hosts a opportunity employer and encourages Department of Homeland Security Center applications from women and minorities. of Excellence for the Awareness and Location of Explosives Related Threats LogicBlox, Inc. (ALERT), and has been awarded a multi- Computer Scientist million dollar research grant (VOTERS) To conduct research & development. for developing critical infrastructure To extend company’s high-performance sensing technology. deductive (Datalog) database systems Northeastern University is a nationally- to take advantage of parallel resources. ranked research university with a strong Perform foundational research into urban mission, a global perspective, and an methods supporting effective & emphasis on interdisciplinary scholarship. efficient dynamic scale-out in the cloud- Its signature Cooperative Education context using declarative programming Program, study-abroad opportunities and techniques. Design & develop distributed its “Dialogues of Civilization” program software using: provide experiential learning opportunities • Datalog; for its 20,000 undergraduate and graduate • C++ & scripting languages including students. Perl/Python; and How to Apply. Submission is online via • UNIX Shell programming http://www.northeastern.edu/hrm/ (select Requirement: Ph.D. degree in Comp “Careers at Northeastern”). Screening Science; Must have demonstrated ability of applications will continue until the to perform stated duties gained through position is filled. Illinois Wesleyan University IMT Institute for Advanced academic coursework/previous work experience. Job opportunity may be Department of Mathematics and Studies Lucca Rice University Computer Science Tenured Faculty Position performed remotely from any location Multi-Robot Systems Lab Visiting Faculty Member, Computer Science IMT Institute for Advanced Studies within the U.S. Competitive salary. Postdoctoral Researcher Pending final administrative approval, Lucca (www.imtlucca.it) has opened Apply by resume to: The Multi-Robot Systems Lab at the Department of Mathematics and an international scouting procedure to HR, LogicBlox, Inc. Rice University (http://mrsl.rice.edu) is Computer Science at Illinois Wesleyan recruit for a tenured faculty position in the 1349 W. Peachtree St NW, Ste 1880 looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher to University invites applications for a following fields: Atlanta, GA 30309 enhance their research efforts in robotics. one-year faculty positions in Computer Computer Science and Engineering, Attn: Job DZ Any strong candidate is welcome to apply, Science. Employment will begin in Large Scale Data Mining, Graph Theory, but there are two profiles that would mesh August 2012, and the teaching load will Mathematical Statistics, Machine Learning Northeastern University well with our current projects: College of Computer and Information be six courses per year. A graduate degree We will consider highly qualified 1. A candidate who is strong in in Computer Science or Computer Science & College of Social Sciences and candidates with a strong theoretical Humanities algorithmic robotics; ideally with a Engineering is required; a PhD is background in computer science, Assistant, Associate and/or Full Professors background in distributed algorithms, preferred. Candidates must be able to physics, statistics, information science, Northeastern University seeks graph algorithms, and computational teach in the core CS curriculum, including engineering, or mathematics, with an outstanding faculty members for geometry. This person would still need a course in software development, which orientation towards research on processing interdisciplinary positions in fields related to be interested in grounded robotic is one of two writing courses in the major. huge amounts of complex data in the to broad issues of critical importance to problems, and be able to write software in Preference may be given to candidates who analysis of technical, socio economic cybersecurity and cybercrime. In addition addition to proofs. are able to teach informatics or human/ or biological systems. Candidates must to individual applications, we welcome 2. A candidate who is strong in computer interaction. have an excellent record of high-impact inquiries from candidates interested in experimental robotics, perhaps with an Illinois Wesleyan University is a international publications. They should proposing an interdisciplinary cluster interest in manipulation. This person highly selective undergraduate university have demonstrated remarkable ability hire in response to this opportunity. would be primarily responsible for of approximately 2,050 students located in leading research groups, as well as Applications are invited from any developing algorithms and infrastructure in Bloomington, Illinois, a community experience in conducting/coordinating discipline that contributes to an for managing large-scale exploration of about 120,000. The Department of international projects. understanding of the causes and impacts experiments with at least 100 robots. Mathematics and Computer Science is Preference will be given to candidates of cybercrime, particularly its social, This will require proficiency in high-level located in the Center for Natural Science performing research at the intersection economic, or political consequences. distributed algorithm design and analysis, Learning and Research, a $25,000,000 between algorithms, theory and Faculty members appointed in this low-level programming in C/C++, and facility opened in 1995. applications, and who are active in one or area will be eligible for tenure in either even the occasional use of a soldering iron. Candidates for the position should more of the following fields: analysis and the College of Computer and Information Either type of candidate will have a submit a letter of application, curriculum modeling of massive data structures; graph Science or the College of Social Sciences Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related vitae, teaching statement, and have theory and random structures; analysis and Humanities, depending on the field and a strong enthusiasm for robotics three letters of recommendation sent and modeling of complex networks; candidate’s specific field and background. work. We require excellent analytical skills, separately to: [email protected]. Review of machine learning; data mining; parallel The new colleagues are expected to work software engineering experience, and applications will begin on March 20, 2012 and distributed computation. with faculty members across different excellent writing skills. and will continue until the position is Submit your confidential expression colleges, in order to develop and enhance The Multi-Robot Systems Lab is filled. Questions can be directed to Joerg of interest at: http://www.imtlucca. scholarship and interdisciplinary funding directed by Prof. James McLurkin Tiede, Program Coordinator, htiede@ it/faculty/positions/professors_ opportunities at the intersection of and provides a stimulating working iwu.edu.IWU is an Equal Opportunity positions/2012/application.php traditional disciplines. environment. Rice University is Employer Committed to a Diverse Work Deadline is May 15th 2012 Qualifications consistently rated as one of the best places Force.Please find further information at Visit the Institute on YouTube (http:// Candidates must have a PhD or to work in academia. The duration of the http://www.iwu.edu/iwujobs/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4gE-_2RrB8). equivalent terminal degree at the beginning position is one year and can be renewed of the appointment and a record of for a second year.

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Professional Opportunities Compensation is competitive and lead the industry. Samsung’s Computer • Research and develop ideas around • Experience developing on ARM commensurate with experience. Science Laboratory (CSL), located in the the single-system image concept. processors and programming with To apply, send a resume to James heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA, is • Research and develop new ideas in ARM assembly. McLurkin ([email protected]). currently recruiting world-class researchers OS-level and language-level support Samsung Information Systems America who share our “Innovation through for heterogeneous processor platforms. is an Equal Opportunity Employer Samsung R&D, Computer Passion” philosophy and thrive in a fast- • Develop ideas around the support of Email: [email protected] Science Lab pace, results-driven environment. Get the fine-grained resource management Operating System Internship best of both worlds - at Samsung’s CSL and QoS monitoring, policing and Tufts University Samsung R&D, Computer Science you will have the freedom and creative adaptation in the context of real-time Computer Science Department Lab located in San Jose, CA, is currently environment of corporate research support, cyber-physical applications. Full-Time Lecturer recruiting summer interns in the area of coupled with the potential to see your • Build proof-of-concept prototypes. The Department of Computer Science parallel/scalable operating systems and inventions and technology translate to real • Write research papers and technical seeks applications for a full-time Lecturer to runtimes. products and real business needs. articles publishing work and results in teach computer science courses beginning Position: Intern for the Computer Samsung R&D is recruiting full-time top-tier conferences and journals. in September 2012. Science Lab researchers in the area of Operating Systems Necessary Skills/Attributes: A Lecturer is a full-time, non-tenure Summary: (OS) for future cyber-physical systems. We • Ph.D. in Computer Science or track, member of the faculty who is The Computer Science Lab, within are looking for individuals with a passion related area with 0-5 years practical committed to teaching, advising, curriculum the Samsung R&D Computer Science for systems research, and the desire to follow experience. development and other departmental and Lab, is developing advanced software through from concept to pre-transition • A track record in OS research university service and administration. technologies for next generation many core prototype. pertaining to the above areas of A Research I university, Tufts has and multiprocessor environments. Our Position: Full-time Researcher for the interest with high-quality publications extensive and highly regarded liberal arts, current focus is on developing a highly Omni-OS Project in the field. sciences, and engineering programs that scalable operating system for future many Summary: • Hands-on experience with low-level draw outstanding students from around core (MIMD) platforms. Our approach The Systems Research Group is systems prototyping and development. the world with the highest academic is focused on leveraging state-of-the-art developing new OS designs that can meet • Proficiency with C/C++ and Linux- achievement and standing. secure microkernel technology to provide the needs of future computing platforms based development including multi- Tufts is widely respected for its excellent a platform for a secure, robust and scalable based on multicore, manycore and cloud threaded programming. teaching and student-centered approach. solution that can meet the needs of future technologies. We are currently developing • Excellent communication and The Lecturer position is a full-time partner Samsung products. a solution based on L4 microkernel team working skills are required in the Department of Computer Science’s This is an excellent opportunity for technology that will readily scale from with a willingness to work with an educational process. participation in state-of-the-art research and sensors-to-servers, whilst providing advanced international team to deliver an Candidates should hold a PhD and technology development with the world’s support for transparent distributed integrated solution. have an exceptional record of classroom largest consumer electronics company— processing, Quality-of-Service (QoS) • A willingness to learn new things and instruction and curricular innovation striving for technical excellence and thought guarantees for co-located real-time and take on new challenges. with regard to computer science courses. leadership. best-effort applications, and the “first- Desirable Skills/Attributes: Lecturers teach courses in the introductory Duties and Responsibilities: class” integration of parallel programming • Experience with L4 or other similar sequence and higher level courses in their As part of this internship we have a technologies. microkernel technology (e.g., QNX, area of expertise. The initial appointment number of work topics of interest. These We are looking for highly motivated Integrity) is for two years with possibility of longer include, but are not limited to research and and creative individuals to join the San • Experience with embedded systems contracts and the promotion to Senior development of the following technologies: Jose research team and to augment development. Lecturer over time. • Scalable NUMA-aware memory existing system research expertise. This • Experience building OS sub-systems We request that applications include the allocators for many core processors. is an excellent opportunity to join a new such as memory managers, and task following materials (a) letter of • Scalable file system and disk drivers. team advancing state-of-the-art software schedulers. intent (b) a curriculum vitae, (c) a • Parallel (multithreaded) GUI and technologies for Samsung’s current and • Experience with implementation of statement of teaching philosophy, (d) names windowing systems. future business. machine-learning algorithms (e.g., and affiliations of three potential references. • Scheduling algorithms for many Duties and Responsibilities: GA, simulated annealing, differential All these should be submitted online core that support partitioning and • Research and develop micro-kernel evolution) that drive system though academicjobsonline.org QoS for RT and non-RT tasks. based solutions for next generation optimizations. Review of applications will begin Implementation of scheduling in products. • Experience with distributed and February 1, 2012 and continue until the microkernel and runtime layers. • Research and develop innovative parallel computing. position is filled. • Parallel and scalable networking technologies to directly address • Experience developing on TILE For more information about the stacks. scalability limitations of existing processors and programming with department, the position please visit • Architecture specific optimizations for solutions. TILE assembly. http://www.cs.tufts.edu. AMD x86-based server platforms. • Porting of Fiasco.OC microkernel to TILERA TILEPro64 many core platform. • L4Linux virtualization and VMM design for proprietary Fiasco.OC user- land personality. Necessary Skills/Attributes: • Currently enrolled in a relevant M.Sc. or Ph.D. • Candidate should be conducting research in one or more of these areas: operating systems, parallelizing compilers and runtimes. • Hands-on experience with C/C++ and GNU/Linux-based development. • Hands-on experience with multithreading and multiprocessing software development. • A basic understanding of microkernels and monolithic OS designs. Desirable Skills/Attributes: • Experience with MIMD and many core (e.g., TILERA, Intel SCC) processors. • Experience with L4 microkernels and/or general kernel development and low-level systems engineering. Interested candidates should send their resumes and contact details to Dr. Daniel Waddington—[email protected]

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Professional Opportunities

INSPIRE THE NEXT GENERATION TO BUILD A BETTER WORLD.

Leslie Pack Kaelbling MIT’s Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Research Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) Coordinator of SUTD’s curriculum development for Information Systems Technology & Design Pillar

The Singapore University of Technology and Design FACULTY MEMBERS (INFORMATION (SUTD), established in collaboration with the SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is The qualifications for the faculty position include: an seeking exceptional faculty members in the area of earned doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems Technology and Design for this Engineering or Information Systems, a strong new university slated to matriculate its first intake of commitment to teaching at the undergraduate and students in April 2012. graduate levels, a demonstrated record of or potential for scholarly research, and excellent communication SUTD, the first university in the world with a focus skills. SUTD invites applicants for tenure-track or on design accomplished through an integrated tenured appointments in all areas of computer multi-disciplinary curriculum, has a mission to advance science, computer engineering, and information knowledge and nurture technically grounded leaders technology, with particular interest in candidates with and innovators to serve societal needs. SUTD is expertise in operating systems, databases, networking, characterised by a breadth of intellectual perspectives security, cryptography, information retrieval, embedded (the “university”), a focus on engineering foundations systems, and applied algorithms. Duties include (“technology”) and an emphasis on innovation and teaching of graduate and undergraduate students, creativity (“design”). The University’s programmes are research, supervision of student research, advising based on four pillars leading to separate degree undergraduate student projects, and service to SUTD programmes in Architecture and Sustainable Design, and the community. Faculty will be expected to Engineering Product Development, Engineering Systems develop and sustain a strong research programme. and Design, and Information Systems Technology and Attractive research grant opportunities are also Design. Design, as an academic discipline, cuts across available. Successful candidates can look forward the curriculum and will be the framework for novel to internationally competitive remuneration, and research and educational programmes. assistance for relocation to Singapore. MIT’s multi-faceted collaboration with SUTD includes If you want to be part of the founding faculty with the development of new courses and curricula, a focus on Information Systems Technology and assistance with the early deployment of courses in Design, please apply to SUTD at www.sutd.edu.sg Singapore, assistance with faculty and student recruiting, mentoring, and career development, and collaborating on a major joint research projects, through A BETTER WORLD BY DESIGN. a major new international design centre and student exchanges. Many of the newly hired SUTD faculty will spend up to year at MIT in a specially tailored programme for collaboration and professional development.

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Professional Opportunities To apply for the position go to: http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/ Minimum Qualifications: EEO Policy: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/ us_awards/Application.htm. A Ph.D. in computer science, The University of San Francisco jobs/1366 Potential candidates should contact mathematics, statistics, or operations is an equal opportunity institution of Ms. Judy Stavsky, Deputy Director, USIEF research, or a closely related discipline higher education. As a matter of policy, The United States-Israel ([email protected]; +972-3-517-2392) is required. The successful candidate the University does not discriminate in Educational Foundation for advice and assistance. will demonstrate a strong commitment employment, educational services and Fulbright Israel Post-Doctoral Fellowships to teaching, and show excellent academic programs on the basis of an for American Researchers in All Academic University of San Francisco communication skills. individual’s race, color, religion, religious Disciplines Department: Arts & Sciences Applicants must submit a cover creed, ancestry, national origin, age The United States-Israel Educational M.S. in Analytics - Full Time Term Position letter, curriculum vitae, and statement of (except minors), sex, gender identity, Foundation (USIEF), the Fulbright Job Type: Full-Time teaching philosophy to analyticsSearch@ sexual orientation, marital status, medical commission for Israel, offers 8 fellowships Job Summary: cs.usfca.edu. In the subject line, please condition (cancer-related and genetic- to American post-doctoral researchers The University of San Francisco invites use your name and the specific material related) and disability, and the other in support of work to be carried out at applications for a new full-time faculty enclosed: e.g. “Gregor Samsa:CV” or bases prohibited by law. The University Israeli universities during the course of the position in the MS in Analytics program to “Gregor Samsa:Application Materials.” reasonably accommodates qualified 2013/2014-2014/2015 academic years. begin in fall 2012. In addition, applicants should arrange individuals with disabilities under the law. The US Post-Doctoral Fellowship This is a new multidisciplinary program for three letters of recommendation to be Program is open to candidates in all offered jointly by the College of Arts and sent to the same email address. Review academic disciplines. Sciences and the School of Management. of applications will begin April 15 and Program grants total $40,000, $20,000 It focuses on the mathematical, statistical, continue until the position is filled. per academic year. economic and computational techniques Program fellows must be accepted needed to make the data driven decisions as post-doctoral researchers by Israeli that are central to effective business host institutions, which agree to provide strategies. The faculty member is them with a standard post-doctoral grant, expected to teach a variety of topics in which they will receive in addition to this program. The position is a one year their Fulbright Fellowship. Thus, the total term appointment, with the possibility of Grace Hopper Celebration of financial support received by Program extension or conversion to a tenure track Women in Computing Conference Fellows is likely to be in the range of at position starting in year two. least $35,000-$40,000 per year. Job Responsibilities: October 3-6, 2012 in Baltimore, MD. Applications for 2013/2014-2014/2015 The program covers techniques Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowships and approaches from statistics, applied Deadline for Scholarship Applications is May 15, 2012 must be submitted to the Council for mathematics, data mining and machine International Exchange of Scholars by learning, econometrics, risk analysis, and http://gracehopper.org/2012/participate/scholarships/ August 1, 2012. operations research. The ideal candidate Further details on the program and on has significant experience in statistics and Full and partial scholarships to this year’s conference are application procedures may be found at: machine learning, familiarity with one made possible by industry sponsors, grants, and individual http://www.fulbright.org.il/index. or more of the other areas, and has cross contributions. Full scholarships cover conference registration, php?id=1317; disciplinary interests in applying analytical lodging for four nights, and travel expense reimbursement. http://catalog.cies.org/viewAward. techniques to real-world problems. Partial scholarships are also available. While the largest portion aspx?n=3400; of scholarships are awarded to undergraduate and graduate students, junior faculty and members of non-governmental organizations and non-profits are also eligible to apply.

Applications are only being accepted online. A scholarship committee consisting of women and men from industry and academia perform reviews of the applications and scores each one. Scholarships are awarded to the candidates with the highest Computingscores from Research a diverse cross-sectionNews of schools and regions. Issue May Deadline 4-1-12 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 1/4 page INFORMATION SCIENCES INSTITUTE Viterbi School of Engineering The University of Southern California (USC) is seeking an Executive Director (ED) to head Computing Research News the Information Sciences Institute (ISI). This is an exceptional opportunity to lead a distinguished research institute to new levels of excellence and impact. Vol. 24/No. 3 ISI is a world leader in research and development of advanced information processing, communications, and electronic technologies. Known for innovative, translational research Computing Research News that spans basic research through to the prototype stage, the Institute serves a range of (ISSN 1069-384X) is published five times per year in January, March, May, federal agencies and industry partners and conducts research in such diverse areas as September, and November. Copyright 2012 by the Computing Research health informatics, cyber security, integrated satellite/text information, biomimetics, energy Association (CRA), 1828 L Street, NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20036; systems, quantum computing, and space systems. ISI is based in Marina del Rey, tel. 202-234-2111. All rights reserved. Material in CRN is not endorsed by California, with an East Coast campus in Arlington, Virginia, and employs over 300 engineers, research scientists, graduate students, and staff. CRA nor intended to reflect any official positions of CRA or its board. Being part of a rich academic environment in a university committed to excellence sets ISI Subscriptions: Call 202-234-2111, send e-mail to [email protected], or mail apart from many other similar organizations. USC has steadily enhanced its academic subscription inquiries to CRA, 1828 L Street, NW, Suite 800, Washington, excellence and reputation over the past two decades. The University ranks 23rd among DC 20036. A free subscription is available to qualified subscribers. One-year public and private universities in the nation, and its graduate program in engineering is paid subscriptions are $30 in the United States, $45 (U.S.) in Canada, and U.S. News & World Report ranked 12th according to the 2012 listings. $54 (U.S.) elsewhere. Reporting to the Dean of the Viterbi School, the ED is expected to be an exceptional leader from academia, industry, or government with a national presence in interdisciplinary Change of Address: Note that a change of address must include the old and research circles and demonstrated success in building excellence. The ED works with ISI’s new addresses with ZIP+4. Please include a street address or PO Box number. scientists and engineers to expand research funding and identifies research priorities and Postmaster: Send address changes to: CRA, 1828 L Street, NW, Suite opportunities. The ED serves as the chief scientific officer for ISI and recruits, develops, oversees, and inspires ISI’s talented cadre of world-class engineers and scientists. As the 800, Washington, DC 20036. Postage paid at Washington, DC. external representative of the Institute, the ED works with funding agencies, industry Computing Research Association Staff partners, University leaders, and other constituencies to guide ISI’s strategic direction, Andrew Bernat, Executive Director promote its accomplishments, and advance its mission. Betsy Bizot, Director of Statistics and Evaluation The University has retained Isaacson, Miller to assist in the search. Nominations and letters of application, including curriculum vitae should be sent to: Vivian Brocard, Vice President Sandra Corbett, Manager of Administrative Support Isaacson, Miller 263 Summer Street Boston, MA 02210 http://www.imsearch.com, Email: Erwin Gianchandani, Director of the Computing Community Consortium [email protected]. Electronic Submissions Preferred. Peter Harsha, Director of Government Affairs The University of Southern California is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer, Kenneth Hines, Research Analyst committed to the development of an inclusive and diverse community. Candidates of all background are encouraged. Sabrina Jacob, Office Administrator Delicia Mapp, Senior Statistician Melissa Norr, Policy Analyst Erik Russell, Director of Programs Jean Smith, Sr. Communications Associate and CRN Editor

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