UW CSE History

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.
- 1968 faculty, staff, and student phone list
- 1968 graduate program requirements
- 1968-1975 graduate student climbing log
- 1970: Jean-Loup Baer angles for more space
- 1970: NSF proposal "Development of the Graduate Program in Computer Science at the University of Washington" (pages 3-16 provide a terrific overview!)
- Jerre Noe's 80th birthday party, 2003 (department's 35th anniversary)
- Beautiful Sieg Hall (our home from 1975-2003)
- Four-page MSB insert on the Paul G. Allen Center -- includes two-page CSE historical timeline
- Dedication of the Paul G. Allen Center, October 9 2003
- History of program growth, updated May 2011
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