Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering

The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering (or Allen School) houses the faculty of computer science at the University of Washington. It was founded in 1975 and is widely regarded as one of the leading schools in computer science.

Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering

Type	Public
Established	1975
Parent institution	University of Washington
Director	Magdalena Bałazińska
Academic staff	80
Location	Seattle , Washington , U.S.
Website	cs.washington.edu

History

The school began as an inter-college graduate program in 1967. In 1975, an undergraduate program in Computer Science was added, resulting in its elevation to a department. The department moved to the College of Engineering in 1989 with the addition of a second undergraduate program in Computer Engineering. In 1996, a Professional Master's Program was established, and in 2008, a combined Bachelors/Masters program was established. In 2017, the department was elevated to a school and named after Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, renowned investor, philanthropist and computing pioneer.

Buildings

Allen School has 80 full-time faculty, 100 technical and administrative staff members, 450 graduate students, and 1,500 undergraduate students. It is housed in two buildings:

Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering

The Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering, or "Allen Center," was built in 2003 as the Computer Science and Engineering Department's first independent building. This 85,000 square foot building is named after Paul G. Allen, who donated $14 million of its total cost of $72 million.

Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering

The Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering, or "Gates Center" was built in 2019 to add additional space to the existing facility. This 135,000 square foot building is named after Bill Gates and Melinda Gates, who donated $15 million of its total cost of $110 million.

People

Alumni

• A.J. Bernheim Brush (M.S. 1998, Ph.D. 2002) – leading computer scientist in human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing and computer supported collaborative work (CSCW).
• Anne Condon, FRSC (Ph.D. 1987) – professor, and former head of the Computer Science Department of the University of British Columbia.
• Jeff Dean (computer scientist) (Ph.D. 1996) – Google AI Lead and Senior Fellow; computer scientist and software engineer.
• Anne Dinning (B.S. 1984) - Managing Director of D.E. Shaw & Co.
• Ed Felten (M.S. 1991, Ph.D. 1993) – leading computer scientist in the field of security and authentication.
• Albert Greenberg (Ph.D. 1983) – CVP Microsoft and director of development at Microsoft Azure.
• Gail Murphy, FRSC (Ph.D. 1996) – professor at the University of British Columbia, known for work in software engineering.
• Tim Paterson (B.S. 1978) – original author of the MS-DOS operating system.
• Stefan Savage (Ph.D. 2002) – professor at the University of California, San Diego, known for work in computer security.
• Bob Wallace (B.S. 1974, M.S. 1978)– inventor of the term "shareware;" creator of the word processing program PC-Write; founder of the software company Quicksoft.

Faculty

• Tom Anderson - professor
• Magdalena Bałazińska - professor and director
• Gaetano Borriello (1958–2015) - former faculty, developed the Open Data Kit and was founding director of Intel Research Seattle
• Yejin Choi - professor
• Pedro Domingos - professor emeritus, known for Markov logic network enabling uncertain inference.
• Oren Etzioni - professor emeritus, entrepreneur, and CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
• Dieter Fox - professor, co-author of Probabilistic Robotics along with Wolfram Burgard and Sebastian Thrun.
• Jeff Heer - professor, entrepreneur, pioneer in information visualization and interactive data analysis.
• Sham Kakade - professor
• Anna Karlin - professor in theoretical computer science
• Arvind Krishnamurthy, professor
• Richard E. Ladner – professor emeritus; known for his numerous significant contributions to theoretical computer science
• Ed Lazowska - professor
• Hank Levy - professor
• Jennifer Mankoff - professor
• Jerre D. Noe (1923-2005) - first chair of Computer Science Group (now School of Computer Science and Engineering); directed the Eden Project, the first award in the National Science Foundation's Coordinated Experimental Research Program
• David Notkin (1955-2013) - former faculty
• Shwetak Patel - professor, 2011 MacArthur Fellow, 2018 ACM Prize in Computing
• Ben Taskar (1977-2013) - former faculty, pioneer in statistical relational learning
• Dan Weld - professor, entrepreneur
• Linda Shapiro - professor
• Dan Suciu - professor, co-author of Data on the Web: From Relations to Semistructured Data and XML with Serge Abiteboul and Peter Buneman.

Former Faculty

• Alon Halevy, former faculty, director at Facebook AI.

References

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