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University of Minnesota
Computer Science & Engineering
An Overview for
Smarter Planet Joint IBM/University Day
Nov. 20, 2009
Vipin Kumar
William Norris Professor and Head
Department Highlights
• Outstanding faculty
– One of the larger Computer Science dept with 38 tenure track faculty who provide critical
mass and leadership in nearly all areas of computer science
• Ranked third in the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index.
– (Chronicles of Higher Education, Jan. 2007)
• Ranked 9th for Citation Impact of Published Research Papers among the top
100 federally funded universities.
– (Science Watch, Jan. 2007)
• The only CSE department in the nation with three recipients of the Presidential
Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
• Extensive undergraduate and graduate program
– Graduates about 125/yr with BS & BA in CS and BS in CE degrees, about 100/yr with
MS(CS&SE) and about 18-20/yr with PhD degrees
– Our graduates are highly sought after by local, national, and international industry and
academia
Books Authored & CoAuthored by CSE Faculty
IBM
Smarter Planet
Focus Areas
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Energy
Environment
– Food, water
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Government
– Cities, Public safety, Traffic
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Healthcare
Infrastructure
– Buildings
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Technology
– Intelligence, Cloud Computing
UMN - CSE Strengths
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Biomedical Informatics
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High Performance Computing /
Distributed Systems
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Human Computer Interaction
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Robotics
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Spatial and Temporal Data Mining
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Web 2.0 / Community driven content
creation
Spatio-temporal analytics: Vipin Kumar
Planetary Information System for
assessment of ecosystem disturbances
and their relation to global climate
variability and human activity.
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Forest fires
Droughts
Floods
Logging/deforestation
Conversion to agriculture
Smarter Planet Topics:
Food, Water, Energy
Robotic Sensor Networks: Volkan Isler
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Networks of Robots can observe
dynamic phenomena taking place across
large environments, over long periods of
time
Such systems can self-configure (e.g.
autonomous redeployment) and self
maintain (e.g. recharge and harvest
energy)
Actuation capabilities can drastically
improve the system performance (e.g.
the robots can relocate for better
communication or sensing quality)
Challenges:
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algorithms that simultaneously address
communication, sensing, and mobility limitations
The robots must be inexpensive, lightweight, lowpower, yet capable of operating robustly for long
periods of time in the presence of disturbances
such as drift, and energy limitations
Autonomous
light-weight
robots
for data
collection
A robotic raft for monitoring
carp in Minnesota Lakes
Spatial and Spatio-temporal Databases:
Mohamed Mokbel
Database support for Ubiquitous Location-based Services
• Scalability
• Privacy
• Personalization
Most Notable Systems
• PLACE: Pervasive Location-Aware Computing Environment
• Cited 184 times in 5 years
• Casper: Privacy-Preserving Location-based Services
• Cited 204 times in 3 years
• CareDB: Context- and Preference-aware Database System
Smarter Planet Topics:
Transportation, Cities, Systems
Spatial Databases and Data Mining:
Shashi Shekar
Spatial Datbases: Evacuation Route Planning
Spatial Data Mining: Teleconnections
only in old plan
Only in new plan
In both plans
Smarter Planet Topics:
Transportation, Cities, Food, Water
GroupLens Research: John Riedl,
Joe Konstan, Loren Terveen
Analysis of key social computing techniques
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Wikis
Tags
Q&A
Invention of novel interaction techniques
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Recommender Systems
Geographic Wikis
Intelligent Task Routing
Smarter Planet Topics:
Transportation, Cities, Health