UW CSE History

Four recent CSE department chairs:  David Notkin, Ed Lazowska, Jean-Loup Baer, Hank Levy

The University of Washington Department of Computer Science & Engineering was established as an inter-college graduate program in 1967. In 1975 an undergraduate program in Computer Science was added and departmental status was conferred. A second undergraduate program, in Computer Engineering, was added in 1989 when the department moved to the College of Engineering, and a Professional Masters Program was added in 1996.

Jerre Noe was hired from SRI as CSE's first chair in 1968. He was succeeded by Hellmut Golde, Bob Ritchie, Paul Young, Jean-Loup Baer, Ed Lazowska, David Notkin, and Hank Levy.

This website represents an initial attempt to catalog some of the rich history of the program.

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