I'm surprised to hear this. In my experience (at UC Berkeley), my professors (at least the EECS ones) are at the forefront of their field. For example, in my NL

I'm surprised to hear this. In my experience (at UC Berkeley), my professors (at least the EECS ones) are at the forefront of their field. For example, in my NLP class, some of the papers we read are from our professor (Klein et al 2010). They are anything but behind the times.