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Interdisciplinary Team Receives Turner Innovation Award
February 29, 2016 An interdisciplinary team that includes CS Associate Professor Derek Hoiem received a Turner Innovation Award.
HackIllinois: Celebrating Innovation and Fun
February 26, 2016 At HackIllinois 2016, the nation’s top students convened for 36 hours to create mobile apps, websites, or hardware.
Accomplished Undergrad Improving People’s Lives
February 25, 2016 CS freshman Ananya Cleetus's innovative work with prosthetic limbs earned awards and a trip to the White House.
Peng One of Five Illinois Faculty Named Sloan Research Fellows
February 22, 2016 CS Assistant Professor Jian Peng received a 2016 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Augmented Reality App Enables Intelligent Shopping Experience
February 1, 2016 CS Professor Kevin Chang was part of a team that developed IntelligShop, a shopping and review app.
Coursera Co-Founder Delivers 2015 Mueller-Thuns Lecture
January 20, 2016 Daphne Koller delivered the 2015 Mueller-Thuns Lecture in Computer Science on Coursera and the history of MOOCS.
Smaragdis Receives CAREER Award to Study Scaling Source Separation to Big Audio Data
December 17, 2015 CS and ECE Assistant Professor Paris Smaragdis recently received an NSF CAREER award.
Scott Kirkwood Excels at Magic Tournament
December 17, 2015 CS senior Scott Kirkwood attained third place at a regional Grand Prix tournament for Magic: The Gathering.
Nahrstedt Named One of N2Women’s 10 Women to Know in Networking/Communications
December 14, 2015 Klara Nahrstedt has been named to the inaugural list of “10 Women in Networking/Communications That You Should Know."
Three CS @ ILLINOIS Women among World’s Top Rising Stars
December 9, 2015 Three CS @ ILLINOIS women researchers attended the 2015 Rising Stars workshop at MIT.
Sha Receives Simon Ramo Medal
December 7, 2015 CS Professor Lui Sha was named a co-recipients of the 2016 IEEE Simon Ramo Medal.
Warnow Named a Fellow of ACM
December 6, 2015 CS and Bioengineering Professor Tandy Warnow has been named a 2015 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Wang Wins 2015 SIGKDD Dissertation Award
December 6, 2015 Chi Wang (PhD 2014) won the 2015 SIGKDD Dissertation Award for new approach to mining unstructured data.
Engineer in Residence Scott Fisher Shares History of Computing and Career Insights
December 3, 2015 Scott Fisher returned to CS @ ILLINOIS as an Engineer in Residence to share his insights after a career in industry.
NSF Grant Funds DataHub Project to Make Data Science More Collaborative
November 22, 2015 Aditya Parameswaran is co-PI of DataHub, an NSF-funded initiative to make collaborative data science simple.
ChicTech Introduces High School Girls to Computer Science
November 22, 2015 In early November, 49 high school girls took part in the ChicTech retreat put on by Women in Computer Science.
Heeren Receives Teacher of the Year Award
November 11, 2015 Cinda Heeren has been named the recipient of the 2015 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Teacher of the Year Award.
Poloney Shares His Entrepreneurial Experience
November 4, 2015 Google's Joel Poloney shared his entrepreneurial journey with students on as an Engineer in Residence in the CS Department.
Kolla Receives NSF CAREER Award to Investigate NP-Hard Problems
November 1, 2015 CS Assistant Professor Alexandra Kolla recently received a young faculty NSF CAREER award.