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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.
Nahrstedt on Team Receiving $1.2M NSF Grant to Develop Pioneering System for 360-Degree Video Creation and Delivery
December 4, 2019 Creating and delivering 360-degree video to a large audience of viewers over the Internet remains an unsolved scientific problem.
Solomonik’s Communication Cost Research Earns Early Career Prize From SIAM Supercomputing Group
December 2, 2019 Prof. Edgar Solomonik was recognized for work that addresses a key challenge in parallel algorithms.
Jacobson, Nahrstedt, and Xie Among Eight 2019 AAAS Fellows From Illinois
December 2, 2019 Profs. Sheldon Jacobson, Klara Nahrstedt, and Tao Xie are among 443 people to be awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow this year.
Rising Stars 2019 Brings New Opportunities and Networking to Participants
November 4, 2019 In addition to boasting the largest cohort of Rising Stars participants to date, the 2019 edition of the annual workshop introduced innovative events and sessions to bring new opportunities to early-career women.Illinois Welcomes Rising Stars 2019
October 29, 2019 Illinois is welcoming 90 promising early-career women in electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science to campus on Oct. 29.
Study Provides Framework for 1 Billion Years of Green Plant Evolution
October 23, 2019 Prof. Tandy Warnow helps an international consortium construct a large evolutionary tree of green plants, using advanced algorithms.
Outstanding Students Recognized at Fall 2019 Celebration of Excellence
October 22, 2019 Illinois Computer Science honors students who have received important awards and other distinctions.
Illinois CS VR Course Helps ECE ILLINOIS Offer a New Interactive Learning Experience
October 21, 2019 Students from Prof. Eric Shaffer's Virtual Reality course developed software to help explain Fields and Waves concepts.
Illinois CS Influence on His Path to Google Success Inspires Unni Narayanan to Make Major Gift
October 17, 2019 Narayanan, who now leads the engineering team for Google Assistant, was profoundly influenced by Professor Emeritus C.L. "Dave" Liu.Amato Participates in National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence Panel
October 14, 2019 Amato emphasized that funding for basic AI research in the U.S. has not kept up with demand, but that amazing things are possible with the right resources.