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Computer Science at Cornell The Environment for PhD Students Charlie Van Loan Professor & Chair

Computer Science at Cornell The Environment for PhD Students Charlie Van Loan Professor & Chair. The Lay of the Land. As a PhD student, your well-being will depend on two things: 1. What life is like in the Department. 2. What life is like at Cornell. Programming Languages.

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Computer Science at Cornell The Environment for PhD Students Charlie Van Loan Professor & Chair

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  1. Computer Science at CornellThe Environment for PhD StudentsCharlie Van LoanProfessor & Chair

  2. The Lay of the Land As a PhD student, your well-being will depend on two things: 1. What life is like in the Department. 2. What life is like at Cornell.

  3. Programming Languages Systems & Networks Theory & Algorithms AI & Machine Learning Comp Biology Faculty Research Areas Computer Vision & Graphics Databases & Information Science Scientific Computing

  4. The Cornell Environment The campus is alive with opportunities for graduate students and their research.

  5. Nearby Graduate Fields Electrical and Computer Engineering Computational Science and Engineering Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Computational Biology Science and Technology Studies Cognitive Studies (Psych, Linguistics, NeuroBio) Information Science Mathematics

  6. Nearby Institutes & Centers IAI IISI NSDL CTC LoL Sources for thesis topics. Vehicles for multiplying impact.

  7. Information Assurance Institute

  8. Intelligent Information Systems Institute Research in compute intensive and data intensive methods for intelligent decision making systems.

  9. The National Science Digital Library A center of innovation in digital libraries. A community center for groups focused on digital-library-enabled science education. Funded by the National Science Foundation.

  10. The Library of Life

  11. The Cornell Theory Center Parallel Computing on very large clusters Data-Centric Applications from the physical and biological sciences Advanced Visualization e

  12. InformationTechnology Management Computational Biology Medical Imaging Information Science CIS ComputationalScience & Eng Digital Arts & Graphics ComputerScience Faculty of Computing and Information Science

  13. Programming Languages Systems & Networks Theory & Algorithms AI & Machine Learning Comp Biology Faculty Research Areas Computer Vision & Graphics Databases & Information Science Scientific Computing

  14. Hopcroft Kleinberg Kleinberg Kozen Shmoys Tardos Constable Myers Pingali Rugina Teitelbaum Birman Francis Myers Schneider Sirer Cardie Caruana Gomes Halpern Joachims Lee Selman The Faculty Elber Keich Bala Greenberg Huttenlocher Marschner Zabih Arms Gehrke Jai Van Loan Vavasis

  15. Programming Languages Systems & Networks Theory & Algorithms AI & Machine Learning Comp Biology Network Science/ Eigenvalue Problems (Google) Computer Vision & Graphics Databases & Information Science Scientific Computing

  16. Programming Languages Systems & Networks Theory & Algorithms AI & Machine Learning Comp Biology Optimizing Compilers/ Scientific Codes Computer Vision & Graphics Databases & Information Science Scientific Computing

  17. Programming Languages Systems & Networks Theory & Algorithms AI & Machine Learning Comp Biology Language-Based Security Computer Vision & Graphics Databases & Information Science Scientific Computing

  18. Programming Languages Systems & Networks Theory & Algorithms AI & Machine Learning Comp Biology On-line Databases Computer Vision & Graphics Databases & Information Science Scientific Computing

  19. Programming Languages Systems & Networks Theory & Algorithms AI & Machine Learning Comp Biology Classification and Search in Genomics Computer Vision & Graphics Databases & Information Science Scientific Computing

  20. Programming Languages Systems & Networks Theory & Algorithms AI & Machine Learning Comp Biology Making Sense of a Terabyte Database Computer Vision & Graphics Databases & Information Science Scientific Computing

  21. Programming Languages Systems & Networks Theory & Algorithms AI & Machine Learning Comp Biology Looking for Anomalies in an MRI Scan Computer Vision & Graphics Databases & Information Science Scientific Computing

  22. Programming Languages Systems & Networks Theory & Algorithms AI & Machine Learning Comp Biology Figuring Out How Proteins Fold Computer Vision & Graphics Databases & Information Science Scientific Computing

  23. Programming Languages Systems & Networks Theory & Algorithms AI & Machine Learning Comp Biology Semantics Computer Vision & Graphics Databases & Information Science Scientific Computing

  24. Programming Languages Systems & Networks Theory & Algorithms AI & Machine Learning Comp Biology Reflectance Models from Petabyte Data Computer Vision & Graphics Databases & Information Science Scientific Computing

  25. Hopcroft Kleinberg Kleinberg Kozen Shmoys Tardos Constable Myers Pingali Rugina Teitelbaum Birman Francis Myers Schneider Sirer The Well-Connected Faculty Cardie Caruana Gomes Halpern Joachims Lee Selman Elber Keich Bala Greenberg Huttenlocher Marschner Zabih Arms Gehrke Jai Van Loan Vavasis

  26. Hopcroft Kleinberg Kleinberg Kozen Shmoys Tardos Constable Myers Pingali Rugina Teitelbaum Birman Francis Myers Schneider Sirer Cardie Caruana Gomes Halpern Joachims Lee Selman Elber Keich Bala Greenberg Huttenlocher Marschner Zabih Arms Gehrke Jai Van Loan Vavasis

  27. The Faculty Turing Awards Hartmanis Hopcroft National Academy of Engineering Hartmanis Hopcroft Greenberg American Academy of Arts and Sciences Hartmanis Hopcroft Tardos

  28. The Faculty ACM Fellows Birman, Constable, Gries, Halpern, Hartmanis, Hopcroft, Kozen, Schneider, Tardos AAAS Fellows Greenberg, Hartmanis, Hopcroft, Schneider, Halpern, Selman AAAI Fellows Halpern, Selman

  29. The Faculty Gödel Prize Halpern Fulkerson Prize Tardos Williamson Packard Tardos Kleinberg Sloan Lee, Kleinberg, Selman, Gehrke, Myers, Marschner

  30. The Faculty Academy Award (for technical achievement) Steve Marschner

  31. Highly-Cited CS Texts: 3 in top 6 11547 Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness Garey & Johnson 11049 Matrix Computations Golub & Van Loan 4980 Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools Aho, Sethi, & Ullman 4539 Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation Hopcroft & Ullman 3866 Computer architecture (2nd ed.): a quantitative approach Hennessy and Paterson 3684 The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms Aho, Hopcroft, & Ullman * Citations counts from Google Scholar

  32. So Take Into Consideration… The Department Faculty, students, research, connectivity, etc. The Campus Nearby research, related programs, etc.

  33. So Take Into Consideration… The Department Faculty, students, research, connectivity, etc. The Campus Nearby research, related programs, etc.

  34. So Take Into Consideration… The Department Faculty, students, research, connectivity, etc. The Campus Nearby research, related programs, etc.

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