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CS @ ILLINOIS welcomes eight new faculty
September 21, 2017 Eight outstanding new faculty members are joining CS @ ILLINOIS during the next academic year. In total, thirty-six talented teachers and researchers have joined the department since 2013.
Utpal Banerjee, Illinois graduate whose work transformed parallel computing, dies at 74
September 20, 2017 Banerjee's work had a profound impact on parallel computing. His fast, effective data-dependence test has been widely used for developing compilers.
Kloeckner wins NSF CAREER Award to make computer simulation faster, cheaper
September 20, 2017 Kloeckner looks to create better, more versatile solvers for elliptic PDEs in order to improve large-scale simulations.
Class gives CS students a chance to program an actual autonomous vehicle
September 20, 2017 Last spring, a major component of "Autonomous Vehicles in AI" was for students to write software for driverless vehicles provided by AutonomouStuff.
Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Ben Raphael
September 20, 2017 On September 25, Dr. Ben Raphael will present his research on cancer genomics.
New grants are aimed at improving CS teaching tools
August 21, 2017 Teaching Professors Mattox Beckman and Geoffrey Herman have each been awarded campus grants funding pilot projects aimed at improving teaching tools and methods.
CS @ ILLINOIS team tests problem-solving skills at ICPC 2017
August 21, 2017 The CS @ ILLINOIS ACM ICPC team had its best finish at the World Finals since 2009, completing four problems.
Sarita Adve Joins DARPA group that keeps an eye out for technological surprises, opportunities
August 21, 2017 Professor Sarita Adve joins DARPA's ISAT Study Group: 30 scientists and engineers who are helping to identify future directions for computer and communications research.
Gear Establishes Legacy Gift to CS
August 16, 2017 Bill Gear and his wife Ann Lee Morgan have established a bequest that will provide financial support to CS @ ILLINOIS students and/or faculty, depending on the future value of their residual estate.
Professor Emeritus and former Associate Department Head William Kubitz dies at 78
August 9, 2017 CS @ ILLINOIS is deeply saddened to note the passing of Professor Emeritus and former Associate Department Head William Kubitz.
CS alumnus Shannon Chen receives SIGMM Outstanding PhD Thesis Award
August 1, 2017 Chen will be recognized at ACM Multimedia 2017 for his research advancing 3D tele-immersive technology.
Baker Award recognizes breadth and impact of Jacobson’s research
August 1, 2017 Professor Sheldon H. Jacobson has been honored with the David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award, recognizing his lifetime achievements in industrial engineering.
Malwarebytes CEO Marcin Kleczynski pays it forward, impact doubled by Grainger Match
July 20, 2017 Marcin Kleczynski (BS CS ’12) has given a major donation to establish a named endowment supporting the Computer Science Visionary Scholarship Fund.
Solomonik wins Householder Prize
July 19, 2017 Assistant Professor Edgar Solomonik was one of two winners of the Householder Prize XX, which recognizes the best dissertation in numerical linear algebra.
Noghabi wins Microsoft grant for underrepresented students
July 13, 2017 CS @ ILLINOIS doctoral student Shadi Noghabi is one of the 12 winners chosen from U.S. and Canadian universities for the new Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant program.
Bill Gropp named NCSA Director
June 26, 2017 Professor Bill Gropp, the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in Computer Science, has been named Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Illinois researchers build Dropbox-like storage, analytical system for scientific data
June 22, 2017 Illinois researchers are looking to speed up the materials-to-device process through a novel framework called 4CeeD.
The Female Perspective: The Challenges and Triumphs of Being a CS Undergraduate
June 17, 2017 In the fall of 2016, CS @ ILLINOIS welcomed the most gender-diverse class of freshman in its history. What is the CS @ ILLINOIS undergraduate experience like?
CS @ ILLINOIS Honored for Increasing Women’s Participation in Computing
May 22, 2017 CS @ ILLINOIS has received the $100,000 Grand Prize for the NCWIT Extension Services Transformation (NEXT) Award.