CalmLogic Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 (In bold with links are universities that I know are not ranked in the top 67 by USNews in computer science.) Top 50 Graduate Computing Programs in the U.S. 1: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2: University of Maryland, College Park 3: Carnegie Mellon University 4: Georgia Institute of Technology 5: Stanford University 6: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 7: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 8: University of Texas, Austin 9: Purdue University 10: University of California, Berkeley 11: University of California, San Diego 12: University of Massachusetts, Amherst 13: Rutgers University, New Brunswick 14: University of Southern California 14: University of Washington, Seattle 16: Cornell University 16: University of California, Santa Barbara 18: Michigan State University 19: University of California, Irvine 20: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 21: University of Wisconsin, Madison 22: Columbia University 22: Princeton University 24: Ohio State University 24: University of Florida, Gainesville 26: Pennsylvania State University 26: Texas A&M University 26: University of Pennsylvania 29: University of Texas, Dallas 30: State University of New York, Stony Brook 31: Oregon State University 31: University of California, Los Angeles 31: University of Virginia 34: California Institute of Technology 34: University of Arizona 34: University of Illinois, Chicago 37: State University of New York, Buffalo 38: Louisiana State University 38: Rice University 38: Washington University in St. Louis 41: Harvard University 42: Southern Methodist University 42: University of Iowa 42: University of South Florida, Tampa 45: Boston University 45: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 47: North Carolina State University 47: University of California, Davis 49: University of Colorado, Boulder 50: New York University Top 50 Software Engineering Institutions Worldwide 1: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2: Carnegie Mellon University 3: Georgia Institute of Technology 4: University of Maryland, College Park 5: Oregon State University 6: University of California, Irvine 7: University of British Columbia 8: Politecnico di Milano, Italy 9: University of Texas, Austin 10: IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center 11: University of Waterloo, Canada 12: University of Massachusetts, Amherst 13: Imperial College London 14: University College London 15: Carleton University 16: University of Paderborn 17: Purdue University 18: Stanford University 19: Kansas State University online M.S. in Software Engineering 19: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 19: Michigan State University 22: University of Pittsburgh 23: University of Colorado, Boulder 24: University of Texas, Dallas 25: University of Washington, Seattle 26: University of Toronto 27: Ohio State University 28: University of Southern California 29: University of Karlsruhe, Germany 30: Osaka University 30: University of California, Davis 32: Fraunhofer-IESE, Germany 33: University of Virginia 34: Simula Research Lab, Norway 34: Washington University in St. Louis 36: Hong Kong Polytechnic University 37: Brown University 38: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 38: University of Strathclyde, UK 40: NASA Ames Research Center 41: University of Bologna, Italy 42: University of California, San Diego 43: Avaya Labs Research 44: Northeastern University 44: West Virginia University 46: Case Western Reserve University 46: Rutgers University 48: Bell Labs, Naperville 48: Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council, Canada 48: National University of Singapore, Singapore The rankings were based on: The new method for ranking academic programs is based largely on answering the question “What did your faculty publish and where?” The premise is that the ability to regularly publish research findings in highly regarded journals is a good gauge of academic excellence... Publication-based rankings have been done in the past, but the new approach to generating them is much more sophisticated, according to the authors of an article in the June issue of the Association for Computing Machinery’s monthly magazine, Communications of the ACM. Co-developed by a software engineer from Google, the new computer-based method greatly expands upon the number of journals that can easily be considered, the authors said. It also factors in faculty participation in professional conferences, which can be an important yardstick of faculty excellence – particularly in rapidly evolving fields like computer science, the authors said. The publication-based approach to rankings also sidesteps the potential peril of basing rankings on people’s subjective opinions about a given institution or program, although publication-based ranking “should probably serve as one quantitative indicator in a more comprehensive methodology,” the authors concluded. Two UT Dallas Engineering Programs Ranked Among Best in Texas The actual rankings are from the following 2007 ACM paper (requires subscription): : Volume 50, Issue 6 , Automatic and versatile publications ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDK Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 The new method for ranking academic programs is based largely on answering the question “What did your faculty publish and where?” The premise is that the ability to regularly publish research findings in highly regarded journals is a good gauge of academic excellence... This methodology might sounds as a compelling strategy for ranking; nevertheless publishing is not everything, some good research take more than 5 to 6 years before reaching a good results. “should probably serve as one quantitative indicator in a more comprehensive methodology,” the authors concluded. I couldn't agree more :) Anyway, thanks CalmLogic for sharing this ranking :tup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalmLogic Posted November 16, 2007 Author Share Posted November 16, 2007 This methodology might sounds as a compelling strategy for ranking; nevertheless publishing is not everything, some good research take more than 5 to 6 years before reaching a good results.Good point. Therefore, I think the main value of this ranking is just to help people re-examine their USNews-based assumptions. BTW, for the lower-ranking universities, the research section of a CS department's website is what I use a lot to get a quick impression. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wild runner Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Does anybody know why Duke is not on this list? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modeler Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 This ranking methodology appears to be biased towards state schools on first glance. Any idea why that might be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalmLogic Posted February 13, 2008 Author Share Posted February 13, 2008 Does anybody know why Duke is not on this list?We could turn the question around: When was the last time one read a paper in a journal or conference proceeding by a faculty member from Duke? While it may seem strange that LSU is on the list but Duke is not, there is this outdated praise for LSU that does show that LSU has had some publishing superstars: Peter Chen 's original paper on the Entity-Relationship model (ER model) is one of the most cited papers in the computer software field. Recently, Prof. Peter Chen was honored by the selection of his original ER model paper as one of the 38 most influential papers in Computer Science according to a survey of 1,000 computer science college professors ( Table of Contents, Great Papers in Computer Science , edited by P. Laplante , West Publishing, 1996). Intelligent Systems Department of Computer Science at LSUHowever, to bring up a point MDK was making, a major flaw is that the ranking does not seem to include other important criteria for publication quality like the number of citations each paper has received. So one could say Duke may publish less but has higher-quality publications. This ranking methodology appears to be biased towards state schools on first glance. Any idea why that might be? State schools may have more faculty members on average. This ranking seems biased towards quantity rather than quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micheelgeorge Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Tsudik's research interests are in computer/network security, privacy and applied cryptography. His recent work focuses on privacy in Internet services, RFID systems and mobile ad hoc networks, as well as security in sensor networks and storage systems. His research also covers secure group communication, in particular, group key agreement, group signatures and group access control. --------- micheel buzz marketting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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