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Note: This study was done in 1997 and is kept here for historical reasons. Please see our research pages and Why UVa? for current information about our department.

• Small: Incoming classes deliberately kept to < 30.

• International: About 20% from foreign countries.

• Research: Quickly pair students with projects, including many undergrads.

• Cooperation: Routine collaborations between research teams.

• Collegiality: Dept.-wide funding, student desk assignment, & lack of "fiefdoms".

• Distributed Operating Systems
• Compilers
• Real-Time Systems
• Parallel Database Systems
• Distributed Simulation
• Distributed Digital Libraries
• Multimedia Networking
• Software Engineering
• VLSI CAD
• Innovative Quality Education in the C++ Programming Language

• Computer Architecture, HW/SW Co-Design VLSI, CAD
• Distributed Computing, Distributed Simulation
• Networks, Distributed Multimedia
• Operating Systems
• Real-Time Systems
• Databases, IR, Scientific Databases
• Compilers and Programming Languages
• Software Engineering
• VLSI CAD and combinatorial optimization