The Best Computer Engineering Schools In America

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The Best Computer Engineering Schools In America

Most of the founding fathers of computers went to this schools where they earned their Masters, PHD, BS & BA degrees.
For a career in computer science, the best universities in the USA Ranked in 2006* Computer Science (Ph.D.) by U.S. News and World Report.
1.Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
3 Stanford University (CA)
4 University of California–Berkeley
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CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY

1. Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It began as the Carnegie Technical Schools, founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1900. In 1912, the school became the Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting 4 year degrees. In 1967, the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to form Carnegie Mellon University. The University,s 140 acre main campus is located three miles from downtown Pittsburgh, and is bordered to the west by the campus of the University of Pittsburgh.



Engineering Bldg


Computer Science Bldg

Currently, the University has seven colleges and schools: the Carnegie Institute of Technology (engineering), the College of Fine Arts, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Mellon College of Science, the Tepper School of Business (formerly the Graduate School of Industrial Administration), the School of Computer Science and the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management.
Since its inception, Carnegie Mellon has grown into a world renowned institution, with programs that are frequently ranked among the best in the United States. The university is affiliated with 15 Nobel laureates, 9 Turing Award winners, seven Emmy Award recipients, three Academy Award recipients, four Tony Award recipients and was branded one of the "New Ivies" by Newsweek magazine in 2006. Carnegie Mellon attracts students from all 50 U.S. states and 93 different countries.
The The School of Computer Science: Carnegie Mellon University helped define, and continually redefines, the field of Computer Science. The School of Computer Science is recognized internationally for as one of the top schools for computer science. Carnegie Mellon has consistently ranked 1st for graduate studies in Computer Science in the US, in rankings released by the US News and World


Robert Dennard--- invented DRAM


Charles Geschke -- invented Adobe System

Alumni
James Gosling, creator of the Java programming language,
Andy Bechtolsheim , co-founder of Sun Microsystems,
. John Forbes Nash, a 1948 graduate and winner of the 1994 of the Nobel Prize in Economics, was the subject of the book and subsequent film A Beautiful Mind.
Alan Perlis, a 1943 graduate was a pioneer in programming languages
Bob Colwell (Ph.D.), Chief Architect of Intel Pentium Pro
Robert Dennard (Ph.D. 1958), inventor of dynamic random access memory (DRAM),
Drew D. Perkins (1985), author of Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
Andy Bechtolsheim (M.S. 1976), co-founder of Sun Microsystems,
Charles Geschke (Ph.D. 1973), co-founder of Adobe Systems

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2.  MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology



Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing 32 academic departments,[3] with a strong emphasis in theoretical, applied, and interdisciplinary scientific and technological research. MIT is one of two private land-grant universities as well as a sea-grant and space-grant university.
MIT was founded by William Barton Rogers in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States. Although based upon European models of an institute of technology, MIT's founding philosophy of "learning by doing" made it an early pioneer in the use of laboratory instruction,undergraduate research, and progressive architectural styles. As a federally funded research and development center during World War II, MIT scientists developed defense-related technologies that would later become integral to computers, radar, and inertial guidance. After the war, MIT continued to have a high profile throughout the Space Race and Cold War and its rep*t*tion expanded beyond its core competencies in science and engineering into the social sciences including economics, linguistics, political science, and management.



Ray Tomlinson -- invented e-mail


Wesley clark -- linc mini computer inventor



Dan Brick -- invented the Spreadsheet……..SOOOOO   he is the one who invented it….I used it everyday at work for accounting & everything else……I love it…the greatest invention ever made.

Famous Alumni
Kofi Annan — Secretary-General of the United Nations
Ahmed Chalabi — controversial Iraqi politician, now  deputy prime minister of Iraq
Benjamin Netanyahu — former Prime Minister of Israel
Carly Fiorina — Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard
William Clay Ford, Jr. — Chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Company
Ray Tomlinson - innovator of email systems, pioneered the use of the @ symbol for email
Andrew Tanenbaum — computer scientist and creator of Minix, the precursor to Linux
Dan Bricklin — co-inventor of Visicalc, the first WYSIWYG PC spreadsheet program
David D. Clark - led the development of TCP/IP -- the protocol that underlies the Internet
Wesley A. Clark - computing pioneer, creator of the LINC (the first minicomputer)
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3. STANFORD


Aerial View of the University huge compound in Palo Alto,California where most of all high tech inventors attended . Stanford is also famous for their MEDICAL school . They are number one in medical field among all universities in States.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles northwest of San José in Stanford, California. Situated adjacent to the city of Palo Alto, California, Stanford lies at the heart of the Silicon Valley, both geographically and historically.



Vinton Cerf-----founded Internet and the current Vice Pres of Google Inc.


William Hewlett --- founder of HP or Hewlett-Packard computer company
( He is the H on HP logo )


David Packard --- founder of HP computer  company ( He is the P on HP logo )

FAMOUS ALUMNI
Herbert Hoover (1895), President of the United States
Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady
Vint Cerf (B.S. 1965), Internet pioneer, co-inventor of TCP/IP internet protocol, Turing award winning computer scientist
John Cioffi (M.S., Ph.D.), father of DSL (broad band internet connection)
Ted Hoff (Ph.D. 1962), inventor of microprocessor, winner of kyoto prize
Paul Flaherty (MS, Ph.D), inventor of AltaVista search engine
Brent Townshend (Ph.D), inventor of 56k modem
Ted Koppel (MA), journalist
Elizabeth Farnsworth (MA), broadcast journalist
Eileen Collins (MS) first female commander of a space shuttle
Sergey Brin, (MS), Google co-founder
Larry Page, (M.S.), Google co-founder
Jerry Yang, Yahoo! co-founder
David Filo, (MS), Yahoo! co-founder
William Hewlett (1934), Hewlett-Packard co-found
David Packard, (1934), Hewlett-Packard co-founder
Jawed Karim (current Master's student), YouTube co-founder
Chelsea Clinton (B.A. 2001), First Daughter
Eunice Kennedy Shriver,, sister of John F. Kennedy (1944)
Dianne Feinstein (1955), U.S. Senator
Sandra Day O'Connor (1950, LL.B. 1952), former U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice
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4.  UNIV OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY



The University of California, Berkeley (also known as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, and by other names) is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system. It is located in Berkeley, California, occupying about 200 acres on a wooded slope plus an additional 1000 acres (4 km²) of largely undeveloped land in the Berkeley Hills. The university offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines.

UC Berkeley was founded in 1868 in a merger of the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College. By the 1950s, Berkeley had established itself as a premier research university. Berkeley physicists played a key role in developing the atomic bomb during World War II and the hydrogen bomb soon afterwards. labs (now also used for more peaceful research) at Livermore and Los Alamos ever since. Berkeley scThe university has managed the nation's two principal nuclear weapons Scientists invented the cyclotron, discovered the anti-proton, played a key role in developing the laser, explained the processes underlying photosynthesis, isolated the polio virus, designed experiments that confirmed Bell's Theorem, and discovered the elements seaborgium, plutonium, berkelium, lawrencium and californium.

Berkeley computer scientists created the BSD Unix operating system. But Berkeley faculty have a no less distinguished record in fields outside the physical sciences; it has included four Fields Medal winners in mathematics, four Nobel Laureates in economics, one Nobel Laureate in literature, two Pulitzer Prize winners, twenty eight MacArthur fellows, and nine recipients of the James S. McDonnell Foundation award.

During World War II, Ernest Orlando Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory in the hills above Berkeley began to contract with the U.S. Army to develop the atomic bomb, which would involve Berkeley's cutting-edge research in nuclear physics, including Glenn Seaborg's then-secret discovery of plutonium (Room 307 of Gilman Hall, where Seaborg discovered plutonium, would later be a National Historic Landmark). UC Berkeley physics professor J. Robert Oppenheimer was named scientific head of the Manhattan Project in 1942.[7][8] Along with the descendant of the Radiation Lab, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of California manages two other labs of similar age, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which were established in 1943 and 1952, respectively


Douglas C. Engelbart - invented the mouse



Steve Wozniak - founder of Apple Computer


Famous Alumni
Leonard Adleman B.A. 1968 (mathematics), Ph.D. 1976, the "A" in the RSA encryption algorithm for computer security, co-recipient of the Turing Award in 2002
Steve Wozniak, 1976, graduated B.S. 1986 - Co-founder of Apple Computer,
Douglas C. Engelbart, B.Eng. 1952 [2], Ph.D. 1955 - Inventor of the computer mouse, recipient of the National Medal of Technology in 2000, pioneer in hypertext and networked computers, recipient of the 1997 Turing Award.
Butler Lampson, Ph.D. 1967 - computer scientist, founding member of Xerox PARC, major contributor to the development of the personal computer, and recipient of the 1992 Turing Award
Ken Thompson, B.S. EE 1965, M.S. EE 1966 - Co-creator of the Unix operating system and co-recipient of the 1983 Turing Award
Niklaus Wirth, Ph.D. 1967 - computer scientist, creator of the Pascal programming language, recipient of the 1984 Turing Award
Tom Anderson, B.A. 1998 - creator and founding member of MySpace
Jack London (attended 1896-1897) - novelist
Lisa Stark, B.A. 1978 - ABC News correspondent
Kathy Baker, B.A. 1977 - three-time Emmy Award winning actress (Picket Fences [TV
Ralph Edwards, B.A. 1935 - national television host and producer
Stacy Keach, B.A. 1963 - actor
Gregory Peck, B.A. 1939 - actor,
Edmund G. Jerry Brown Jr., B.A. 1961 - Governor of California,
Pete Wilson, J.D. 1962 - U.S. Senator, Governor of California

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apat lang ate poca? wala ba dito sa illinois? lolz. kelangan ko pala lumipat ng state

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(06-10-2007 10:18 AM)equinox10 Wrote:  apat lang ate poca? wala ba dito sa illinois? lolz. kelangan ko pala lumipat ng state

hehehe......i think there are other good computer science schools all over USA..like Illinois..........this list is just to emphasize that they are the four famous top computer schools in america because they produced lots of famous people connected to the computer industry.

here in california, it you say you are a Stanford Graduate.....it means you went to the BEST university in the west coast. Very famous ang Stanford sa computer & medical field. PLUS....it is very very expensive to attend STanford.....their tuition fee is the highest too.

Remember Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Pres. Clinton ? She attended & graduated at STanford for her BA degree.

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(09-10-2007 05:51 AM)pocahonta Wrote:  

(06-10-2007 10:18 AM)equinox10 Wrote:  apat lang ate poca? wala ba dito sa illinois? lolz. kelangan ko pala lumipat ng state

hehehe......i think there are other good computer science schools all over USA..like Illinois..........this list is just to emphasize that they are the four famous top computer schools in america because they produced lots of famous people connected to the computer industry.

here in california, it you say you are a Stanford Graduate.....it means you went to the BEST university in the west coast. Very famous ang Stanford sa computer & medical field. PLUS....it is very very expensive to attend STanford.....their tuition fee is the highest too.

Remember Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Pres. Clinton ? She attended & graduated at STanford for her BA degree.

aahh okies ate. salamat sa info