In Our Department ...

• 40 faculty
• 233 graduate students
• 42 technical staff
• 23 administrative staff
• 296 undergraduate majors
  



• 10 Fellows of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM): W. Richards Adrion, Lori Clarke, W. Bruce Croft, Robert Graham, Neil Immerman, James Kurose, Eliot Moss, Leon Osterweil, Arnold Rosenberg, Donald Towsley
• 4 Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): Andrew Barto, James Kurose, Arnold Rosenberg, Donald Towsley
• 5 Fellows of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): Wendy Lehnert, Victor Lesser, Edward Riseman, Edwina Rissland, Beverly Woolf
• 2 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: W. Richards Adrion, Andrew Barto
• 10 Lilly Teaching Fellows: James Allan, David Mix Barrington, Emery Berger, Mark Corner, Brian Levine, James Kurose, Andrew McCallum, Eliot Moss, Prashant Shenoy, Ramesh Sitaraman
• 1 Guggenheim Fellow:Neil Immerman; 1 Fulbright Fellow: Arnold Rosenberg; 2 Lady Davis Fellows: Arnold Rosenberg, Shlomo Zilberstein
• 4 Professors in top 0.5 percent of cited papers (ISI): W. Bruce Croft, Neil Immerman, Arnold Rosenberg, Don Towsley
• 2 Professors in top 250 most cited (Citeseer): Jim Kurose, Don Towsley
• 4 Professors with "H Number" greater than 40: W. Bruce Croft, Jim Kurose, Victor Lesser, Don Towsley (5th highest CS department in nation)
  


• 5 Lifetime Research Achievement Awards: Andrew Barto, W. Bruce Croft, Neil Immerman, Lee Osterweil, Don Towsley
• 9 service awards from the IEEE and ACM among faculty
• Numerous best paper awards at a conference
• 12 outstanding teaching awards (including Jim Kurose's 2002 Taylor Booth Award by the IEEE Computer Society, the highest award in education given by the Computer Society)
• 13 PYI, RI, or Career Awards from the National Science Foundation
• 4 University distinguished professors: W. Bruce Croft, Jim Kurose, Arnold Rosenberg, Don Towsley
• Uniquely collaborative research environment in the Department: view the graph of recent collaborative activity
  



• 84 conference and 34 journal papers published in a recent year
• 11 books published and 8 books in preparation in a recent year
• 108 conference committees (program and organizing) in a recent year
• 54 national panels (NSF, NAS, DARPA, ONR, etc) in a recent year
• 18 keynote speeches/distinguished lectures in a recent year
• 50 editorial board positions in a recent year
• 79 recent research grants awarded in FY '04 ($12.8M in funding awarded)
  



• Ranked in the top 20 for Computer Science Ph.D. programs in the country (National Research Council Study and U.S. News & World Report's ranking of "America's Best Graduate Schools")
• Ranked 12th in list of top U.S. Computing Graduate Programs based on publication data from 1995 to 2003 (Communications of the ACM, June 2007; ranking framework and data used)
• Designated a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency (NSA), 2003-2009 academic years.
  



• 16,026 cups of departmental coffee (caffeinated) consumed in a year

• 2,601 cups of departmental coffee (de-caffeinated) consumed in a year
• 1,587 cups of tea consumed
• 4,767 cups of flavored/herbal tea consumed
• 6,077 cups of hot chocolate or mocha
• 1,080 donuts eaten in a year at Monday Morning Coffee
• 1,440 bagels eaten in a year at Monday Morning Coffee
• 3,380 reams of blank white paper, purchased in a year
  



• Amherst, MA has one of the highest percentages of people with graduate degrees in the U.S. (41.9%) - 2000 Census data can be found at http://www.factfinder.census.gov
• 90 miles (west) from Boston
• 45 miles (north) of Hartford
• 10 miles (or less) to excellent restaurants, movie theaters, theatre, music, art, hiking, canoeing, parachuting, coffee
  
  


• Computer Science booklet - 4-color booklet describing the Department's faculty, students, education, and research (5.11MB pdf file). CS Booklet in 2 page spread (lower resolution -- 2.29MB pdf file).
• History of the Department
• "Pioneer Valley is about perfect" - by Denis Horgan, Knight Ridder News Service
• "In the Valley of the Literate" - by Roger Mummert, New York Times