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Synchronized lides and audio of the keynote talk by Kevin Kennedy, and Panel Discussion
| 9:00 | Registration and breakfast |
| 9:30 | Opening Address Francis Lawrence, President, Rutgers University |
| 9:50 | Keynote Speaker Kevin Kennedy, Senior Vice-President, Cisco Systems "Navigating Disruption: An Industry Perspective" |
| 11:00 | CS Department Tomasz Imielinski, Chairman, Computer Science, Rutgers University |
| 11:30 | CS Department History and 30th Anniversary Saul Amarel, Alan M. Turing Professor of Computer Science, Rutgers |
| 12:00 | Lunch and Demos from DCS and CAIP |
| 2:00 | Panel Discussion "The Future of Undergraduate Computer Science Education - will industry certificates replace the undergraduate computer science degree?" Industry certificates such as Cisco, Microsoft and Sun have quickly established themselves as desirable and sought after items on aspiring software engineers resumes. In fact many employees today may more likely hire someone who has passed such certificate exams (and taken related courses) than someone fresh out of college with undegraduate computer science degree. What does it all say about the direction where college education in computer science should be going? Should universities teach more skills and platforms rather then concepts? Should students be required to take standarized hands-on programming tests before completing their degrees? Cisco team, Miles Murdocca (Director of II) and faculty from DCS |
| 3:30 | Break |
| 3:45 | Computer Science Faculty Talks "Digital Sprinklers: What You Want, When & Where You Want It" B.R. Badrinath, Richard Martin, Brett Vickers
"A Digital Library of Popular Music" |
| 5:00 | Reception |
One of the key ojectives of the Open House is to present Computer Science at Rutgers, New Brunswick, to those outside the University, as well as to colleagues inside the University. We have organized a rich program which is a combination of presentations by our distinguished faculty, and invited talks by some of the most famous computer scientists in the world.
Our department is one of the top Computer Science Departments in the country, recently ranked in the top 11 among State Universities in the United States and in the top 25 overall. We typically graduate 250 Computer Science majors, some 35 MS degrees and 10-15 PhDs per year in response to the growing industrial demand. Our faculty is involved in over 40 research projects funded by DARPA, NSF, and industry, bringing to the University several million dollars annually in external research funding.
The Department Faculty consists of 39 full-time members. Faculty research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms and Computational Complexity, Combinatorial Optimization and Mathematical Programming, Programming Languages and Software Engineering, Distributed-Mobile and Parallel Computing, Computer Networks, Scientific Computing, Human Computer Interaction, and Database, Knowledgebases, Digital Libraries.
Tomasz Imielinski
Department Chair