1. Stanford University (Stanford University)
CS of Stanford University is a big CS, with more than 40 faculty members, including Edward A. Feigenbaum (john mccarthy), a well-known Turing Prize winner, and big names in various disciplines, such as Donald E. Knuth, an authority on theory; Jeffrey D. Ullman (who also wrote the famous compilation principle, from Princeton); And john hennessy, one of the leading figures in RISC technology. I believe that CS students are no strangers to this. The department graduates more than 30 doctoral students and more master students every year. The way out for students is naturally like a duck to water. Stanford students are favored by both academia and industry. Almost all the top 10 c have Stanford graduates as professors.
Of course, there are three other giant cows: UC. Berkeley, MIT and CMU. Jim clark used to be a professor of computer science at Stanford University. Later, it was this man who founded SGI, a giant in the field of high-performance computer and scientific computing visualization. The origin of the name of Sun Company is: Stanford University Network. By the way, Yang Zhiyuan, a China native who founded Yahoo, studied for a doctorate at EE in Stanford, and later dropped out of school to run Yahoo.
In CS research, Stanford is a top player, with strong strength in theory, database, software, hardware, AI and other fields. Stanford's RISC technology later became the core technology of SGI/MIPS Rx000 series microprocessors; DASH and FLASH projects are the frontiers of multiprocessor parallel computer research. SUIF parallel compiler has become a key project funded by the state, and mentioning SUIF compiler in international academic papers seems to add some beauty to some mediocre papers.
Stanford University is located in Silicon Valley, the center of the information world. California's pleasant climate and beautiful scenery make Stanford a paradise for CS. 33. The campus area of1square kilometer is even enough for students to cross the river to win the battle. It is difficult to apply for Stanford, but it is not impossible. Going to a cattle school like Stanford, luck is very important, and the recommendation of cattle people is also very important.
2.UC。 Berkeley (University of California, Berkeley)
The University of California at Berkeley is also located on the San Francisco Bay in Silicon Valley, only about 50 kilometers away from Stanford University. Berkeley is one of the most radical schools in America. The poet allen ginsberg is the spokesman of Berkeley. In today's high-tech field, C. Berkeley is creating new myths, ranking among the top 3. 16 Nobel Prize winners in more than 20 major disciplines such as literature, mathematics, chemistry and journalism. Academicians of the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering with a total of nearly 200 people, together with many Berkeley people who became billionaires in the commercial war in Silicon Valley, held high the banner of gathering talents in the world. AndrewGrove, president of Intel, graduated from UC. Berkeley. The BSD version of UNIX influenced the whole OS world, and Berkeley's RISC technology later became the core technology of Sun's microprocessor. David Patterson, a tycoon, took over a $600 million project to research and develop new computer architectures, especially IRAM.
UC。 Berkeley has more than 30,000 students and more than 8,500 graduate students. The application fee is the same as other campuses of the University of California, 40 dollars. According to a recent survey, Berkeley has become the most desirable graduate school for American college students, ranking first, and its application difficulty can be imagined.
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
It seems that MIT enrollment does not look at GRE scores. However, CS of MIT is a giant cow. In the latest ranking of 1999, it tied for the first place with Stanford with a perfect score of 5.0. CS of MIT has made indelible contributions to the development of CS, the idea of data stream computing, and many great achievements in data stream computers and artificial intelligence. It is also an X-window that has influenced the whole UNIX world ... MIT, like Stanford, CMU and the University of California. Berkeley is almost a giant school in the CS field. Media arts and sciences at MIT are not well-known under the Computer Department. Mainly multimedia technology, information processing, artificial intelligence ... and a large number of famous professors, such as Marvin Minsky.
4.CMU (Carnegie Mellon University)
CMU is a small school in Pittsburgh with more than 7,000 students. The campus seems very small. But this school is a top school in engineering and other fields.
The CS of CMU is not just a department, but a college, and its scale may only be comparable to that of Stanford and UIUC. The situation of teachers and students is similar to the previous three, so I won't go into details here. Mach operating system, PVM, C.mmp, etc. Have great contributions from CMU. It is very difficult to apply for CMU, because although CMU has many CSFacilities, it only recruits less than 30 graduate students every year.
5. Cornell University (Cornell)
As a member of the Ivy League and a private school, Cornell has its unique advantages. In the United States, private schools are generally more difficult to enter than public schools, and their students are admitted only after strict selection. CS students in Cornell can enjoy FELLOW treatment after entering school, and their personal economic conditions are not as good as those in public schools. The promotion of aristocratic alumni makes the way out of private schools very attractive.
Cornell has always been a top expert in theoretical computers, but it is not always in the top 10 in other CS fields. Cornell has18,000 students and more than 5,000 graduate students. CS enrolls about 25 doctoral students every year.
6. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
UIUC's Academy of Engineering is the highest-ranking giant cow in the United States, and its CS, ECE and EE have made many achievements in history. In CS, from the early supercomputers Illiac I, II, III and IV to the later CEDAR, it is an important event in the history of CS development, especially in the history of parallel computers. David cook was a pioneer in parallel processing. Supercomputer R&D Center: CSRD, National Supercomputing and Application Center: NCSA and many other institutions make UIUC CS often become the leader in R&D. You may remember that one of the original developers of Netscape Navigator was mark anderson. This young man from Wisconsin studied undergraduate in UIUC and participated in the compilation of mosaics in NCSA in his senior year. Later, he went to Silicon Valley, where he met Daniel jim clark, the former founder of SGI. They hit it off and jointly founded the famous Netscape, which once dominated the Wulin browser market. With the departure of the supreme masters from generation to generation, the faculty of UIUC is inconspicuous. But I have to remind you that UIUC CS has always been known for its hard work. I am looking forward to their next amazing move.
UIUC is a university with more than 35,000 students and nearly10,000 graduate schools. UIUC has a large number of CS, and more than 40 facilities provide comprehensive CS education and research programs. It seems that only Stanford can match the number of more than 30 PhDs graduated every year. UIUC's Polaris parallel compiler is a fist product that directly challenges Stanford's SUIF in this field. Tsinghua chose this system when developing a parallel programming environment. It's just that Polaris's huge code and slow operation make Tsinghua a little dull. ...
UIUC is a giant in computer hardware, software, artificial intelligence, database and other fields. Especially the hardware, ILLIAC, CEDAR mentioned earlier ... In fact, UIUC is not inferior to any of the four kings of CS in the research and development of supercomputing system, or even worse. The fact that NCSA is based in the Union of Islamic Courts is evidence in itself.
7. University of Washington (University of Washington, Seattle)
UW in Seattle is blessed-Microsoft, the giant of computer science, is in Seattle, and Bill Gates is also from there. The Harvard dropout gave Harvard a lot of money, but compared with the money given to UW, it was only a drop in the ocean.
The unit in Washington is located on the beautiful lakeside of Washington, and the climate is like spring all the year round. Among the more than 33,000 students, 8,000 are graduate students. Perhaps the most disgusting thing about Seattle is that there are 160 days of precipitation a year.
UW has a large CS, with more than 30 faculty members, nearly 20 high-quality doctoral graduates and a large number of master's degrees every year. It is estimated that the number of students enrolled each year should not be low. UW's CS is relatively balanced in all aspects, with the strongest software ranking fifth, and other fields generally ranking first 10, as if there is no obvious weakness. Dick Karp, a Turing Prize winner, was re-employed by CS of UW after he retired from Berkeley. The CS requirements in Washington and the United States are very high. The average GPA of students enrolled in PhD schools is as high as 3.86, GRE2 160+, and the deadline is early, so it is quite difficult to apply for UW.
8. Princeton University (Princeton University)
Princeton University is a fascinating place. Princeton school is small, but it used to be the world science center. CS in Princeton is not large, with 18 members and a small number of students. Except for the fifth theory in scientific research, I don't seem to notice other highlights. I hope the insider can add it. But Princeton has undoubtedly trained a large number of outstanding people in the computer field. Geoffrey D. ullman, john mccarthy and other giants are all from the famous Princeton University. The education received at Princeton is the best education.