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• 1/30/2024
  

  Bill Gropp, NCSA Director and Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering is a candidate in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) elections. Members have received ballots and can vote now. (AAAS Annual Elections)

• 1/27/2024
  

  Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider's online Object-Oriented Data Structures in C++ made a list of ten precious and free University courses for computer science students. (Medium)

• 1/23/2024
  

  Sheldon H. Jacobson discusses the increase in viruses this time of year and whether we should be concerned. (Chicago Tribune $)(Bangor Daily News | Tribune Content Agency)

• 1/18/2024
  

  Alum Alex Pissinou Makki is on a team revolutionizing satellite security on NASA’s groundbreaking project integrating AI, blockchain, & nanosatellites. (Forbes) 

• 1/17/2024
  

  CS & School of Information Sciences Professor Jingrui He has been awarded $600,000 from the IBM-Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute to improve climate change modeling with Climate Runtime. (AAAS)

• 12/19/2023
  

  CS Professor Sheldon H. Jacobson says, in response to bills filed over the use of AI-manipulated media in the Florida 2024 legislative session, “Law and artificial intelligence are now starting to merge and confront each other. This is the Wild West … We’re just at the beginning.”  (Tallahassee Democrat)