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Two CS students selected as Knights of St. Patrick
February 15, 2017 Seniors Dana Nikolaeva Chambourova and Sujay Khandekar receive one of the College of Engineering's highest student honors for their exemplary leadership, character, and service.
Warnow elected 2017 International Society for Computational Biology Fellow
February 13, 2017 Tandy Warnow is one of eight international scientists recognized for contributions to advancing the understanding of living systems through computation.
CS @ ILLINOIS students win highly competitive industry PhD fellowships
February 9, 2017 Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi has earned a Facebook Fellowship and Silu Huang has earned a Microsoft Research Fellowship.
ThinkChicago Roadshow rolls into Siebel and pitches city to student tech talent
January 31, 2017 Always highly recruited, CS @ ILLINOIS students learned about tech opportunities in Chicago from a high-powered panel of successful entrepreneurs and the city's mayor.
Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. William T. Freeman
January 29, 2017 Dr. William T. Freeman, the Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of EECS at MIT, will discuss a learning-through-interaction algorithm that is able to predict audio features from videos.
Engineer in Residence provides students with unique perspective
January 28, 2017 Alumnus Michael Duff returns to campus to share experiences and career advice as part of EIR program.
CS @ ILLINOIS is defining and envisioning the data science field for undergraduates
January 23, 2017 CS Head Rob A. Rutenbar is part of a National Academies committee that advises universities on creating degrees, programs of study, and educational experiences.
Legacy Gift Honors Friend and Enables More Student Scholarships
January 19, 2017 “The Visionary Scholars fund was a nice lever for combining my friend’s gift with additional funds to have a greater effect than the money on its own,” explained CS alumnus Ron Cytron, who envisions the scholarship aiding students who are underrepresented in computer science.
Tool to map gene's ‘social network’ sheds light on function, interactions and drug efficacy
January 19, 2017 Jian Peng developed a tool to map a gene’s “social network” to help researchers better understand its function and interactions, offering insights into treatment.
Innovative course enables students to create web apps for impact
January 3, 2017 CS @ ILLINOIS pioneers teaching the design, implementation, and deployment of web apps that solve real-world problems.
TSA could save money by waiving PreCheck fees for frequent travelers, study finds
December 5, 2016 There's an easy way to reduce lines at the airport, increase security, and save taxpayer dollars: waive the $85 fee for frequent filers to enroll in the TSSA PreCheck program.
Illinois computer science education project part of national ‘CS for All’ efforts
December 5, 2016 The Creative Technologies Research Lab will develop and study instructional strategies and supports for K-12 students with disabilities and others at risk for academic failure.
Alumnus Peng Ong will be featured speaker at fall convocation
December 2, 2016 Peng T. Ong (MS CS '88), managing partner of Monk’s Hill Ventures, will be the featured speaker at the College of Engineering Fall Convocation on Saturday, December 17.
Two PhD students attend prestigious academic career workshop
December 1, 2016 Eslami and Zhou were among 60 top women researchers who learned how to launch and sustain a successful faculty career at the annual Rising Stars workshop.
U of I receives $1 million for scholarships from Give Something Back Foundation
November 30, 2016 Robert Carr, a former student of Professor Emeritus David J. Kuck, gives scholarships to support students of modest means at Illinois.
Donald B. Gillies Memorial Lecture in Computer Science: Ronitt Rubinfeld
November 29, 2016 Dr. Ronitt Rubinfeld will describe results on a variety of problems for which sublinear time and space local computation algorithms have been developed.
Torrellas Elected AAAS Fellow
November 21, 2016 Josep Torrellas is one of six University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty members who have been elected 2016 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Chang creating tools that listen to social universe
November 16, 2016 CS Professor Kevin Chang is developing SocialSense, a social media data platform that may fulfill the promise of gathering deep meaning and actionable information from the vast and noisy social universe.
CS set to honor four distinguished faculty with named chairs and professorships
November 14, 2016 One of the highest honors the campus can bestow, named chairs and professorships acknowledge outstanding faculty research, service, and education accomplishments.