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Pitt Prepares To Depart Illinois CS, the Department He Helped Shape Over Three Decades
March 14, 2019 Pitt joined Illinois CS in 1985 and had a prominent hand in CS + X, the growth of teaching faculty, and the culture of one of the leading CS departments.
Illinois CS Vision Group Provides Leadership in a Rapidly Growing Field
March 14, 2019 Research, a widening network of talented alumni, and key roles in major conferences give Forsyth, Lazebnik, and Hoiem an influential place in computer vision.
Illinois CS Teaching Inspires Fisher to Extend Support for Award, and Add Honors for TAs, CAs
March 12, 2019 Scott Fisher's admiration for Illinois CS faculty and the education they provide to students is part of the reason he continues to be a generous donor.
Paper Co-Authored By Geoffrey Herman Chosen No. 1 In SIGCSE Symposium’s All-Time Top 10
March 5, 2019 The paper identified student misconceptions about introductory CS topics and provided instructors with ideas for helping students.
HackIllinois Draws More Than 1,000, Including An Open-Source Pioneer
March 1, 2019 What makes a great hackathon? About 950 students from 43 universities, 100 mentors, snacks, swag, soccer, and open-source rock star Bruce Perens.
NSF Backs Clowder Open-Source Data Management Tool With $5M
February 28, 2019 Clowder, designed to manage large collections of data now essential to science, is a key part of the 4CeeD framework developed by Illinois CS Professor Klara Nahrstedt.
Student Course Assistant Brings New Power to PrairieLearn
February 20, 2019 A project that was started at HackIllinois 2018 by Nathan Walters (class of 2019) is allowing CS 225 to give students more immediate feedback about their assignments and exams.
Hassan’s NoDoze Brings Triage to Security; PhD Student Presents Paper at NDSS Symposium
February 18, 2019 Using system history to judge whether events are normal, Hassan finds a way to sharply reduce the number of threat alerts that demand attention.
Gene Golub Had A Talent For Giving, Which Lives On At Illinois CS
February 15, 2019 Golub believed in giving back, and his gifts to Illinois CS continue to fund scholarships, fellowships, and a professorship.
Narhstedt Receives 2018 Robert Piloty Prize For Outstanding Research
February 15, 2019 Nahrstedt has longstanding ties to German computer science and is internationally recognized for her work in multimedia systems and networks.
Kartik Hegde Awarded Facebook Fellowship For Plan to Rev Up Deep Learning For Mobile Devices
February 13, 2019 Hegde, a PhD student, plans to use the fellowship to advance his work on efficient processors for deep learning.
Textbook Co-authored By Campbell Takes An In-Depth Look At Cloud Computing
February 11, 2019 "Assured Cloud Computing" collects the research of the Assured Cloud Computing Center at Illinois, a project that was led by Professor Roy Campbell.
Professor Jiawei Han Named Aiken Endowed Chair
February 7, 2019 Han is the second-ever Aiken Chair, a position he plans to use to maintain Illinois' leadership in data-mining research.
CS Graduate Indukuri Using $1.29M In Venture Backing From LinkedIn CEO And Others To Fine Tune Trala
February 5, 2019 Illinois CS graduate sees venture funding as key to expanding content of violin app, and boosting its sales.
Online MCS Featured in National Advertising Campaign
January 30, 2019 This week, Coursera released three TV advertisements to raise awareness for the high-quality online courses and degrees offered from the world’s best universities, including the University of Illinois.
Mohan Teaches Middle Schoolers, Trying to Inspire Future Programmers
January 22, 2019 Research Assistant Professor Sibin Mohan and his students are working to introduce young students to the science behind the devices they are so familiar with.
Still Early In His Career, Nathan Handler Commits To Supporting Illinois CS Programs
January 14, 2019 Nathan Handler sees his gifts to Illinois Computer Science as a way to help make sure student groups such as the ACM chapter continue to thrive.
European Universities Honor Snir, Padua for Contributions to Parallel Computing, HPC
January 11, 2019 The École Normale Supérieure de Lyon honored Snir for decades of achievements; the Universidad de Valladolid recognized Padua as a parallel computing pioneer.
CRA Awards Recognize Four Illinois CS Undergrads For Research
January 10, 2019 Illinois CS students Jonah Casebeer and Ben Zhou were finalists, while Harshay Shah and Edward Huang were recognized with honorable mentions from the CRA.