Wow! Less than a year since Google hired Franz Och, they seem to be doing really great in Machine Translation:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0602/p13s02-stct.html
An interesting survey about the PhD institutions of CS faculty in top 10 CS departments.
This particular page shows that out of 138 assistant and associate
profs. at the top 11 CS depts (with known PhDs in CS), 82 hail from
the top five: Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, CMU, and Cornell.