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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 15:08:33 GMTServer: NCSA/1.4.2Content-type: text/htmlLast-modified: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:19:32 GMTContent-length: 19313<html><head><title>The Impact of a Research University</title></head><body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000070"><!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><a href="http://www.washington.edu"><!WA1><!WA1><!WA1><!WA1><!WA1><!WA1><!WA1><!WA1><!WA1><!WA1><!WA1><!WA1><!WA1><!WA1><img align="right" border=0 src="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/impact/uwlogo.gif"></a><h2>The Impact of a Research University:An Information TechnologyPerspective</h2><h3><!WA2><!WA2><!WA2><!WA2><!WA2><!WA2><!WA2><!WA2><!WA2><!WA2><!WA2><!WA2><!WA2><!WA2><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/lazowska.html">EdLazowska</a><br><!WA3><!WA3><!WA3><!WA3><!WA3><!WA3><!WA3><!WA3><!WA3><!WA3><!WA3><!WA3><!WA3><!WA3><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/">Department ofComputer Science & Engineering</a><br><!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><a href="http://www.washington.edu/">University of Washington</a></h3><p><b>The University of Washington is one of the nation's premierresearch universities</b>. For more than twenty years, UW hasranked among the top five institutions in annual Federalresearch obligations. (Currently UW is second to JohnsHopkins, with MIT and Stanford in third and fourthpositions. Currently UW ranks fifth in industrial researchsupport.) The UW faculty includes ninety members of theNational Academies, seven MacArthur Foundation award winners,and four Nobel prize winners in the past decade. Fifty sevenjunior faculty have won NSF/Presidential Young InvestigatorAwards. A number of programs are ranked among the top dozenin the nation in their fields, including Atmospheric Sciences,Bioengineering, Biostatistics, Cell & Developmental Biology,Computer Science & Engineering, Dentistry, Geography,Neurosciences, Nursing, Oceanography, Pharmacology, Physiology,Psychology, Public Health & Community Medicine, Sociology,Statistics, and Zoology.<p><b>What does this mean to the State of Washington and itscitizens</b> -- students, parents, and taxpayers?In some cases the answer is well known: UW'spreeminence in the medical sciences, for example,has given us Medic One, kidney dialysis, some ofthe finest health care in the nation, and flourishingbioengineering and biotechnology industries featuringcompanies such as Immunex, Ostex, PhysioControl, andZymogenetics.This document tells the story from the perspectiveof another field: information technology, focusingon the Department of Computer Science & Engineeringand touching on related programs in themathematical sciences and in engineering.<p><hr size=4 width=400 noshade><p><h3>A Half Century of Exponential Progress in InformationTechnology: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How?</h3><p><b>There has been mind-boggling progress in information technology</b>,which pervades most aspects of our lives and most aspects ofour economy.The nation that leads in information technology enjoys enormouscompetitive advantages.America owns this leadership today, thanks to a complex interplaybetween government, academia, and industry.<p><b>Industry can afford to look ahead only a few years</b>.The high risk of fundamental research, workforce mobility,difficulty in capitalizing on internal innovations, andshareholder behavior are among the reasons.<p><b>As a nation, though, we <i>can</i> and <i>must</i> investfor the long term</b>. America's future depends upon ourbroad-based leadership in certain key sectors, not on theindividual success or failure of specific companies.<p><b>By-and-large, this work takes place in universities</b>,with government support.The historical track record is clear: overthe course of many decades, federally-supported universityresearch has played a critical role in essentiallyevery aspect of information technology: timesharing,computer networking, workstations, computer graphics,database technology, Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI)circuit design, Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC)architectures, I/O subsystems basedupon Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks(RAID), parallel computing, and others.<p><b>Universities transfer technology in two ways</b>. Theytransfer ideas, by licensing and by placing conceptsin the public domain.And they transfer people: students and faculty leaveto join or form companies.Close industry/university interactions facilitate thistechnology transfer, as well as facilitating the exchangeof insights about long-term strategic directions.It's this pattern of innovation and technology transfer -- thefluid interaction between academia andindustry -- that has made America the world leader in informationtechnology, and that will help us maintain this critical lead.<p><b>The unique genius of America's university system is that itcombines research and education -- ideas and people</b>.And it's not just graduate education.The single most important factor in shaping my owncareer was my "adoption" as an undergraduate at BrownUniversity by Professor Andries van Dam.I took his course; I became his teaching assistant;I became his research assistant; I became his protegeand friend.And I am not alone.Three other faculty members in my department wereAndy's undergraduate students.The computer science department chairs at MIT,Maryland, Princeton, and Waterloo, in addition to UW,were Andy's undergraduate students.The person who wrote much of the early software forthe Macintosh at Apple, and the person who oversaw thex86 architecture family at Intel, and the person who ranthe Windows 95 project at Microsoft and now headsInternet activities there, were Andy's undergraduatestudents.<p><b>That's the kind of program we run at theUniversity of Washington</b>: forefront research,and seamless integration of research with education -- avery special kind of education that takes bright studentsand brings them to the very forefront.<p><b>It's critical not to take a one-dimensional view</b>.Don't try to measure "impact" by a single measure, be itcompanies created, or technologies licensed, or dollarsraised, or programs out-ranked, or students graduated.And don't try to view Washington's higher education systemmonolithically, for it <i>is</i> a system, with differentinstitutions serving different purposes for differentstudents and different employers.You can't get your arms around this with a spreadsheet.<p><b>For further information</b>, see the Computing ResearchAssociation's web-based monograph<!WA5><!WA5><!WA5><!WA5><!WA5><!WA5><!WA5><!WA5><!WA5><!WA5><!WA5><!WA5><!WA5><!WA5><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/cra/">"ComputingResearch: Driving Information Technology and the Information IndustryForward"</a>(http://cra.org/research.impact/), andEd Lazowska's 1996 University of Washington Annual Faculty Lecture,<!WA6><!WA6><!WA6><!WA6><!WA6><!WA6><!WA6><!WA6><!WA6><!WA6><!WA6><!WA6><!WA6><!WA6><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/faculty.lecture/">"AHalf Century of ExponentialProgress in Information Technology: Who, What, When, Where,Why, and How"</a>(http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/faculty.lecture/),plus their associated links.<p><hr width=400 noshade><p><h3>The University of Washington's Role</h3><p><b>The University of Washington is a very specialinstitution</b>. There is nothing else like it inan entire quadrant of the nation -- north ofCalifornia and west of Illinois.<p><b>UW's research is a major industry</b>: it brings in farmore money each year than the state budget of theinstitution -- $482 million during fiscal 1996, comparedto a state appropriation of less than $300 million.<p><b>Strong programs attract top-flight people to theNorthwest</b>, both as students and as faculty.<p><b>These programs provide a first-rate education toWashington residents</b>.The University of Washington Department of Computer Science& Engineering is ranked among the top ten programs inthe nation, both for the quality of its graduate/researchprograms and for the quality of its undergraduate programs.UW CSE faculty member<!WA7><!WA7><!WA7><!WA7><!WA7><!WA7><!WA7><!WA7><!WA7><!WA7><!WA7><!WA7><!WA7><!WA7><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/salesin/">DavidSalesin</a> teaches<!WA8><!WA8><!WA8><!WA8><!WA8><!WA8><!WA8><!WA8><!WA8><!WA8><!WA8><!WA8><!WA8><!WA8><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/457/">computergraphics</a> to undergraduates in a<!WA9><!WA9><!WA9><!WA9><!WA9><!WA9><!WA9><!WA9><!WA9><!WA9><!WA9><!WA9><!WA9><!WA9><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/457/info/indylab/">state-of-the-artinstructional laboratory</a> equipped with $350,000 ofequipment donated by Silicon Graphics, Inc., inresponse to Salesin's research contributions andcurricular innovations.Undergraduates who excel in this course becomeSalesin's teaching assistants and researchassistants -- of Salesin's 9 most recent researchpublications (as of Spring 1996), 5 were co-authoredwith undergraduates.Salesin has just finished teaching a course in<!WA10><!WA10><!WA10><!WA10><!WA10><!WA10><!WA10><!WA10><!WA10><!WA10><!WA10><!WA10><!WA10><!WA10><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/490ani/">computeranimation</a> to multi-disciplinary teams of undergraduatesdrawn from Art, Music, and Computer Science & Engineeringin a<!WA11><!WA11><!WA11><!WA11><!WA11><!WA11><!WA11><!WA11><!WA11><!WA11><!WA11><!WA11><!WA11><!WA11><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/490ani/info/la2.html">secondstate-of-the-art instructional laboratory</a>equipped with $450,000 of equipment donated bySilicon Graphics, Inc., in response to a proposalfrom Salesin, Art Professor Shawn Brixey, andMusic Professor Richard Karpen.Professional animators Ronen Barzel from Pixar andAnnabella Serra from Rainsound co-taught thecourse, augmented by 7 guest lecturers from theanimation industry.This is the kind of education that the University ofWashington strives to provide.<p><b>At the University of Washington, research and educationare inextricably linked</b>:<!WA12><!WA12><!WA12><!WA12><!WA12><!WA12><!WA12><!WA12><!WA12><!WA12><!WA12><!WA12><!WA12><!WA12><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/intel/">researchrelationshipsequip instructional laboratories</a>; research infuses thecurriculum; research creates (and funds) opportunities forindependent study at the cutting edge; research buildsties to leadership companies that provide co-op andinternship (and ultimately permanent employment)⌨️ 快捷键说明
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