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Hauser Leads Work on Robotic Avatar for Hands-Free Medical Care
March 25, 2020 The use of avatar robots would allow medical professionals to reduce the amount of face-to-face contact and could slow the spread of future pandemics.
University of Illinois Takes Steps to Address COVID-19 Risks
March 13, 2020 Courses will migrate online by March 23rd, events with more than 50 attendees have been suspended, and travel has been curtailed.
March Madness Bracket Analysis Shows Picking Your Final Four First Leads To Better Brackets
March 3, 2020 University of Illinois data science researchers have some advice for optimal March Madness strategies, based on new research.
BAAC Student Club Wins State Farm Grant to Support Outreach Efforts
February 19, 2020 Blacks and African Americans in Computing (BAAC) has received $5,500 from State Farm's Good Neighbor Citizenship® Company Grant program.
The Home Team
February 18, 2020 Coohom—3D software from Hang Chen, Victor Huang and Hao Zhu—lets users easily design their own “cool homes”.
Sun, Williams Join Illinois Computer Science Faculty
February 14, 2020 Two new faculty add expertise in artificial intelligence for healthcare as well as in creating bridge programs to make advanced CS degrees more accessible.
Knowledge Engine is Ready to Accelerate Genomic Research
February 6, 2020 A center led by Professor Saurabh Sinha has created a first-of-its-kind analytical platform, KnowEnG, to help interpret complex genomic datasets.
Team Creates Game-Based Virtual Archaeology Field School
January 29, 2020 CS PhD student Cameron Merrill has helped to create a VR laboratory that brings an in-depth archaeological field school experience to campus.
NSA and University of Illinois: Partnering to Secure Networks and Cyber Systems
January 23, 2020 Illinois is one of the first universities to partner with NSA on researching the science of security, working on cybersecurity problems with NSA for more than 19 years.
Ji Receives $12.3M DARPA Grant to Develop Second-Generation Event Understanding System
January 21, 2020 Using AI to predict future events still seems like science fiction. But Professor Heng Ji is working to create a system that does just that.
Generous Gift from Family Establishes Lecture Series to Honor Illinois CS Alumnus Utpal Banerjee
January 16, 2020 Sanchita Banerjee Saxena has taken a step to ensure that her father's memory and legacy will live on at Illinois and benefit the field of computer science.
Tong Wins NSF-Amazon Award to Improve AI Fairness
January 14, 2020 $1M in funding will support a team led by Prof. Hanghang Tong to develop a computational foundation for fair network learning.
Illinois CS Hosts First-Of-Its-Kind NSF Workshop on Departmental Plans for Broadening Participation in Computing
January 10, 2020 Eighty-six leaders from thirty-one computing institutions recently visited Illinois to jump-start their departments' BPC plans.
Computational Redistricting: Drawing the Maps
January 10, 2020 The Institute for Computational Redistricting hopes to help bring transparency to the decennial redistricting process.
Illinois student's puzzle to appear in The New York Times
January 3, 2020 Adam Aaronson loves puzzles, and a crossword puzzle he created will be published in the Jan. 4 edition of The New York Times.Tong’s Early Career Achievements Recognized With IEEE ICDM Tao Li Award
December 18, 2019 Prof. Hanghang Tong was honored for his "contributions to large-scale graph mining."
Abdelzaher, Chan, Karahalios, and Sundaram Honored by ACM
December 18, 2019 Profs. Tarek Abdelzaher and Timothy M. Chan have been named ACM Fellows, Profs. Karrie Karahalios and Hari Sundaram have been named ACM Distinguished Members.
New Class Offers Glimpse of Bronze Age Language, Technology
December 11, 2019 CS undergraduate Daniel Stelzer has written software to help make Hittite, an extinct language, more accessible to other students.
After Five Years, Hundreds of Thousands of Exams, CBTF Still Revolutionary
December 4, 2019 Computer Based Testing Facility, co-created by Prof. Craig Zilles, serves over 8,900 students in 38 classes each semester, with 67,000 exams given so far this semester.