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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Grainger College of Engineering
Computer Science

Do you ever wonder how Apple’s Siri, Google’s Translate, or Amazon’s Echo work? Are you intrigued by advances in artificial intelligence, which enable computers to have human-like behavior and understand spoken or written language? Do you think you have what it takes to design user-friendly computer programs and interfaces using natural language communication? If you answered yes to any of these questions then you should consider the CS + Linguistics degree.

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Is CS + X right for you?

Our CS + X degree is different from our bachelor's degree from The Grainger College of Engineering. 

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Alumni Spotlight: Rashad Russell

Rashad Russell (BS CS + Ling '16) is a software engineer at Eventbrite.
Rashad Russell (BS CS + Ling '16) is a software engineer at Eventbrite.

Rashad Russell, CS + Linguistics 2016 graduate, is a software engineer at Eventbrite, the self-service ticketing platform. “If you want to do software engineering, any of the CS + X degrees is more than sufficient,” said Russell, who chose CS + Linguistics his junior year after learning about natural language processing during a summer internship. “With CS + Linguistics, you can replace some of your chemistry, physics, and higher-level math with some domain knowledge on how language actually works.”

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“With CS + Linguistics, you can replace some of your chemistry, physics, and higher-level math with some domain knowledge on how language actually works.”

Rashad Russell