http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/ Articles about UIUC Computer Science Department faculty and students en-us 2008 UIUC Computer Science Department http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Jul30-353 University of Illinois computer science alumna Anna Patterson is launching a new search engine to compete with Google. Patterson sold her last search engine technology to Google in 2004. Her new company, Cuil, claims a more comprehensive and efficient method of search. Patterson received her PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois in 1998. Wed Jul 30 08:50:03 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Jul29-352 Building on a long history of innovation in large-scale systems and parallel computing, the Illinois department of computer science today announced a joint research endeavor to investigate Internet-scale cloud computing systems. Tue Jul 29 09:00:49 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Jul14-351 The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is part of a six-university collaborative cyber security initiative that has been selected by the U.S. Department of Defenseto receive a projected 7-year, $7.4 million grant. Mon Jul 14 07:19:26 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Jul9-350 Computer science professor Sarita Adve has been honored with the Maurice Wilkes Award for her work on memory consistency models. The award is given annually by the ACM special interest group SIGARCH to honor outstanding contribution in field of computer architecture by a researcher in the first 20 years of their career... Wed Jul 9 10:08:20 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Jul3-349 Despite netting $65 million in Google Inc. stock when the search giant bought YouTube, Karim, 28, lives in a dorm at Stanford University, where he's working toward a doctorate in computer science with the goal of becoming a professor... Thu Jul 3 06:52:16 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Jul3-348 A paper co-authored by CS PhD student Nabil Schear and ECE professor David Nicol has brought home the Best Paper award from the 22nd ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS 2008)... Thu Jul 3 06:48:20 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Jun20-347 Undergraduate students from around the world were selected to receive 2008 summer internships from the Information Trust Institute (ITI) at the University of Illinois. Six students will be working with computer science faculty on various security related topics. 19 internships were awarded overall... Fri Jun 20 08:59:11 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Jun9-346 University of Illinois computer science alumnus Ron Brinkmann has recently published the 2nd edition of his text on digital compositing for visual effects. His book, The Art and Science of Digital Compositing, Second Edition: Techniques for Visual Effects, Animation and Motion Graphics, provides a complete guide to the technical and artistic elements of this process and is the leading book in the field... Mon Jun 9 07:25:35 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008May27-345 A group of computer science PhD students have won Best Student Paper honors at the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy for their paper entitled "Cloaker: Hardware Supported Rootkit Concealment". The paper, authored by PhD students Francis David, Ellick Chan, and Jeffrey Carlyle and professor Roy Campbell, reveals the existence of a new class of malware that is immune to detection by current techniques... Tue May 27 08:59:31 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008May19-344 When CS alumnus Roland Geisler first moved to the Bay Area in 1999, he looked for ways to connect with other Illinois alumni. With no active Illinois alumni club, it was difficult to make those connections. When he returned in the Spring of 2007 to find that there was still no alumni club, he decided to take matters into his own hands... Mon May 19 12:41:40 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008May19-343 A unique 8-week program in the study and practice of knowledge discovery begins this week. The Data Sciences Summer Institute, part of the computer science Multi-Modal Information Access & Synthesis center, combines an intensive course in the mathematical foundations of data sciences with hands-on tutorials, a speaker series featuring experts from academia and industry, and group research projects... Mon May 19 09:28:05 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008May15-342 The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has announced that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the inaugural recipients of their newly created National... Thu May 15 21:22:05 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008May14-341 CS professor Sam King and a research team comprised of CS PhD students Joseph Tucek, Anthony Cozzie, Chris Grier, Weihang Jiang and CS professor YY Zhou have demonstrated the design and implementation of a malicious hardware chips they call Illinois Malicious Processors (IMPs). The chips demonstrate that an attacker, rather than designing one specific attack, can instead design hardware to support attacks. Such flexible hardware allows powerful, general purpose attacks, while remaining surprisingly low in the amount of additional hardware... Wed May 14 07:56:56 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008May12-340 In April, Midway announced the eighth version of the super successful American fighting series, Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe, debuting the likes of DC superheroes Superman and Batman along side Mortal Kombat characters Sub-Zero and Scorpion. CS alumnus Ed Boon, co-creator of the popular Mortal Kombat video game was interviewed recently by GameTap about the newest version of the popular video game... Mon May 12 11:24:57 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008May1-339 The 4th Computing Habitat Programming Competition yielded 6 winning projects and doled out $5000 in prizes. The annual contest sponsored by the department encourages students, faculty, and staff to develop software applications that enhance the Siebel Center's technology-rich environment and improve student life. This year's contest was sponsored by State Farm this year... Thu May 1 09:32:57 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Apr30-338 Students in the CS 414: Multimedia Systems class will showcase the Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) systems they developed in a competition on Wednesday, April 30 at 5 p.m. In a culmination of the semester's coursework, four finalist teams will test their systems in 3 different scenarios and will be judged on audio-visual synchronization, GUI design, and channel switching... Wed Apr 30 08:17:16 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Apr23-337 Celebrate the end of another academic year with CS Days events at the Siebel Center. Check out student demo projects, view faculty and student research, see the Computing Habitat Programming Competition entries, learn about undergraduate research projects, and celebrate at the CS Awards ceremony... Wed Apr 23 09:31:21 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Apr21-336 According to his students, computer science professor Craig Zilles combines his keen intellect with an approachability and a patience that is entirely disarming, one of the main reasons he is so consistently rated very highly by both graduate and undergraduate students. Most recently, Professor Zilles was selected as the winner of the 2008 Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence. The award, which annually recognizes one engineering faculty member for outstanding undergraduate teaching, is one of the most coveted awards available to the faculty... Mon Apr 21 08:35:32 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Apr18-335 When CS alumnus and Microsoft researcher Shuo Chen returned to campus to discuss his work to find web browser bugs that were very hard to research, computer science professor Sam King and his research team, PhD students Shuo Tang and Chris Grier, found inspiration... Fri Apr 18 09:58:37 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Apr18-334 University of Illinois computer science PhD student Karthik Pattabiraman has recently been awarded the William C. Carter Award for his research work on SymPLFIED, a Symbolic Program Level Fault Injection and Error Detection Framework. The William C. Carter Award is presented by the IEEE Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing to recognize an individual who has made a significant contribution to the field of dependable computing through his or her graduate dissertation research... Fri Apr 18 09:26:47 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Apr16-333 University of Illinois computer science professor ChengXiang Zhai has been recognized with a Sloan Fellowship for his work in the field of information retrieval and search... Wed Apr 16 12:07:06 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Apr14-332 Professor Bill Gropp was invested as the first Paul and Cynthia Saylor professor of computer science on Monday, April 7. The professorship was endowed by the late Gene Golub in honor of his long-standing friendship with computer science professor emeritus Paul Saylor and his wife Cynthia. The professorship is intended to help fund advances in scientific computing, numerical analysis, and large-scale parallelism research... Mon Apr 14 08:12:26 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Apr10-331 Computer science professor Indranil Gupta has been named one of 8 engineering faculty members (and one of only 4 assistant professors) to receive a Xerox Award for Faculty Research. A leading researcher in distributed systems, Indranil Gupta is working on new techniques for monitoring, management, and scalability improvement of distributed applications... Thu Apr 10 07:59:53 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Apr4-330 A team of computer science students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have qualified for the world finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition for the fifth time in six years. The Illinois team will compete against 100 teams of the most talented and creative information technology (IT) students from around the world in what is known as the "Battle of the Brains" on April 6-8, 2008, in Alberta, Canada... Fri Apr 4 12:57:40 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Apr1-329 University of Illinois computer science alumnus and YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim is starting an early stage investment group, along with two well-known angel investors, Kevin Hartz and Keith Rabois. The fund, Youniversity, will be focused on consumer internet companies created by current and former students at the University of Illinois and Stanford University. They plan to fund companies with between $50,000 and $300,000 dollars... Tue Apr 1 09:34:16 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Mar21-328 Three University of Illinois computer science PhD students presented research at the 2nd Annual U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Annual University Network Summit on March 18-19, 2008. After a highly competitive selection process, DHS selected the work of these 3 students and provided funding for their trip to Washington, DC to present the work in its annual meeting. The students are all graduate research assistants in the DHS-funded Multimodal Information Access and Synthesis (www.mias.uiuc.edu) research center at the University of Illinois. Fri Mar 21 14:12:07 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Mar21-327 University of Illinois computer science alumnus Len Kawell has joined Microsoft as Distinguished Engineer in the Mobile Communications Business Group. Kawell will be charged with "defining the application model for occasionally connected rich Internet applications in the mobile environment". Fri Mar 21 13:44:37 CDT 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Mar18-326 URBANA, IL -- The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign today announced a joint research endeavor with Microsoft Corporation and Intel Corporation that aims to enable commodity systems to make use of parallel computing techniques previously relegated to the realm of supercomputers. As a pioneer in parallel computing advances, Illinois is uniquely positioned to help usher in a new era of parallel computing for consumer systems that will enable drastically new applications for human-centric and environment-aware computing. Tue Mar 18 12:20:12 CST 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Mar3-325 The Computing Habitat Programming Competition challenges student teams to create software applications to make use of and enhance the Siebel Center's unique infrastructure. The fourth annual competition, held Spring 2008, will expand that call to any software project that enlarges and enhances Siebel Center student life. This year's competition is generously sponsored by State Farm and offers up to $5000 in prizes... Mon Mar 3 11:20:12 CST 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Feb29-324 Two hot start-ups founded by University of Illinois computer science alumni Marc Andreessen (Ning) and Max Levchin (Slide) were profiled in a recent Business Week article on new technology valuation and funding models... Fri Feb 29 10:58:19 CST 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Feb27-323 Disks Not Always At Fault in Storage Failures: CS Team Finds New Culprits... Wed Feb 27 13:22:50 CST 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Feb21-322 Join CS alumnus Jeff Holden, CEO and founder of Pelago and former SVP of Amazon.com Consumer Websites, as he returns to campus to share his experiences in social networking, building a mobile social networking platform, and entrepreneurship. Several events are planned... Thu Feb 21 10:35:44 CST 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Feb21-321 In a recent study in the Journal of Transportation Security, University of Illinois computer science professor Sheldon Jacobson tackled the problem of how best to screen the baggage of airline passengers to prevent terror attacks. He and his research team developed a modeling framework to measure the tradeoff between aviation security baggage screening technology enhancements and passenger prescreening accuracy... Thu Feb 21 08:51:40 CST 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Feb12-320 Xuanhui Wang Is 2nd Illinois CS PhD to Receive the Award in 2 Years... Tue Feb 12 11:30:02 CST 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Feb4-319 University of Illinois computer science PhD student Michael LeMay won Best Paper award in the Electrical Power Systems Restructuring track at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-41) for his paper on "An Integrated Architecture for Demand Response Communcations and Control". The paper was co-authored by Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student Rajesh Nelli, along with CS professor Carl Gunter and ECE professor George Gross... Mon Feb 4 09:46:59 CST 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Jan31-318 University of Illinois computer science alumnus Luke Nosek's Founders Fund, a non-traditional investment group, recently announced it has raised an institutional fund in the amount of $220 million... Thu Jan 31 13:00:37 CST 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Jan30-317 Two University of Illinois computer science faculty members have been selected as IEEE Fellows for the class of 2008. CS Professor Klara Nahrstedt was honored for her for contributions to end-to-end quality of service management of multimedia systems, and the late CS Professor Jennifer Hou was honored for her contributions to protocol design and analysis of wireless communications networks... Wed Jan 30 12:49:48 CST 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Jan25-316 University of Illinois computer science alumna Linda Mills has been elected as corporate vice president and president of the Information Technology (IT) sector for Northrop Grumman... Fri Jan 25 11:01:31 CST 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Jan23-315 From PayPal to YouTube, from Yelp to Netscape, Illinois computer science and engineering students and alumni have a reputation for launching new technologies and web services that change the way we all think about computing.The New York Times and Fortune Magazine have both recently proclaimed many of our young alumni as some of the most influential players in the industry today... Wed Jan 23 13:17:24 CST 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Jan22-314 University of Illinois computer science alumnus Gordon Stewart was recently named vice president of Northrop Grumman Corporation's Laser Systems programs. Stewart will have executive responsibility for all laser systems programs within the company's new Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based Land Forces Division... Tue Jan 22 11:52:35 CST 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Jan14-313 Several computer science professors are leading new projects at the University of Illinois Information Trust Institute (ITI). The new projects are funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation Cyber Trust program. CS researchers will be working on projects addressing a variety of technical problems involved in making information systems trustworthy and secure. Mon Jan 14 09:41:27 CST 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Jan4-312 A project co-led by computer science professor Laxmikant Kale has been selected as one of the three inaugural projects for the new Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Institute transfers advances from the computer science and engineering research at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to the larger scientific, engineering, and arts, humanities and social science communities in order to speed progress across all of these frontiers. Fri Jan 4 10:40:56 CST 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2008Jan4-311 University of Illinois computer science professor David Padua has been named an ACM Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery. ACM recognized 38 Fellows this year. Fri Jan 4 09:18:09 CST 2008 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Dec14-310 University of Illinois computer science professor emeritus Sylvian Ray passed away on December 12, 2007. He was actively involved in research into artificial intelligence topics. Fri Dec 14 11:13:00 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Dec13-309 A team of computer science students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have qualified for the world finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition for the fifth time in six years. Ninety teams from around the world advance to the finals which will be held April 6-8, 2008, in Alberta, Canada, hosted by the University of Alberta. Thu Dec 13 19:18:26 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Dec13-308 CS alumnus Steven S. Chen has recently been appointed to the Board of Directors of IPTV Corporation. IPTV Corporation is an interactive television company based in Los Angeles that is developing innovative video commerce technologies for use on wireless, satellite and broadband-based Internet protocol television platforms. Thu Dec 13 19:13:05 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Dec7-307 Two University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign computer science students have been selected as a finalist and an honorable mention for the prestigious Computing and Research Association (CRA) 2008 Outstanding Undergraduate Award. Lars Erickson was chosen as a finalist , and Ekaterina (Katya) Gonina received an honorable mention award. Fri Dec 7 12:02:19 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Dec4-306 University of Illinois computer science professor and IEEE Fellow Jennifer Hou passed away December 2... Tue Dec 4 16:44:10 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Nov27-305 "Computer science, a field which encourages fun creative problem-solving for great pay, ought to attract many. It should attract those who want to improve web interfaces for the blind, speed up parallel performance for biological simulations, perform search on video content, or create digital narrative media. It should attract those who want to make social impact as others have made world-wide with the cellular phone, Google, and YouTube. It should attract and retain all kinds. It should, but it does not. Tue Nov 27 10:08:32 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Nov26-304 In its November 16 issue, PC World magazine profiles CS alumnus Scott Maxwell, one of 14 Rover Drivers that work in NASA's California-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to find out what it is like to control a robot on another planet. Maxwell discusses what makes up an average work day, the highlights of the project, how he got the job, and the tools he uses in his work... Mon Nov 26 11:07:15 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Nov19-303 For alumni Jim (BA, Political Science, '88) and Craig Rowe (BS, Computer Science, '90, BA Economics, '90), supporting the University of Illinois was an easy decision. Jim and his wife Cindy (BS, Microbiology, '88) first met at the university, and Craig and his wife Ulku (MS, Computer Science, '97) both attended the university and studied Computer Science. Add in an Illinois alumni tradition that stretches back four generations - including three generation of engineers and a great grandmother who was one of the first female students at the University - and it's clear that Illinois is an important part of the Rowe family history. Mon Nov 19 09:40:27 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Nov19-302 Illinois alumnus and Stanford University Professor Gene Golub, one of the world's leading numerical analysts for the past forty years, passed away on November 16, a victim of acute myeloid leukemia. Golub received all three of his degrees from Illinois, taking his PhD in 1959 under Professor Abraham Taub. Golub's influence on both the theory and practice of scientific computing was profound, both through his vast range of technical research contributions and his professional leadership of the entire scientific computing community nationally and internationally. Mon Nov 19 09:35:43 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Nov15-301 Fortune magazine recently profiles the CS and PayPal alumni now known as the PayPal Mafia. The article profiles the success that the alumni of PayPal - many of them also alumni of Computer Science - have had since launching PayPal. Thu Nov 15 13:00:41 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Nov7-300 Professor Anil Hirani has been honored with an NSF CAREER award to support his efforts to further the field of discrete exterior calculus. Prof. Hirani hopes to provide new theoretical foundations that will enable those using discrete exterior calculus equations to better preserve the structure of the original physical equation, resulting in more accurate and stable simulations. Wed Nov 7 09:01:22 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Nov7-299 The department of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to welcome Julia Hockenmaier to the faculty. Wed Nov 7 08:57:29 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Nov7-298 The Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette profiled CS junior Greg Schechter in its November 5 issue. Greg Schechter is the developer of a digital slide rule widget and winner of last year's National Yahoo! Hack Day. Schechter beat out students from Carnegie-Mellon, Stanford, and Berkeley for the prize. Wed Nov 7 08:49:10 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Nov6-297 The Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to welcome Professor William Gropp to the department. Professor Gropp will become the first Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science. Tue Nov 6 09:46:33 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Nov5-296 Research on hardware support for improving compiler optimization conducted by computer science professor Craig Zilles was recently selected as one of 10 papers to be included in an upcoming special issue of the IEEE Micro publication, entitled "Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences." From the roughly 150 papers published in top computer architecture conferences, the issue republishes some of the year's most significant research publications in Computer Architecture based on novelty and industry relevance, so that they reach a broader audience of industry practitioners. Mon Nov 5 11:21:36 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Nov2-295 Solar Decathletes from the University of Illinois took home a first-place finish for Market Viability and Comfort Zone at this year's Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. The Illinois team took ninth overall, with Technische Universitiat Darmstadt from Germany taking first. Fri Nov 2 11:47:45 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Nov1-294 CS alumna Mary Jane Irwin was honored by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology for her "significant and sustained contributions in Technical Leadership". The Anita Borg Awards, established in 2004 in memory of the late Dr. Anita Borg, honor outstanding leaders who embrace Borg's lasting vision to change the world for women and technology. The Technology Leadership Award recognizes and celebrates an outstanding woman technical leader and was presented to Irwin during the 2007 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Thu Nov 1 13:36:38 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Oct30-293 CS alumnus Max Levchin is the subject of a New York Times profile on the new generation of Silicon Valley tycoons. CS alumni Scott Banister and Marc Andreessen are also mentioned. Tue Oct 30 10:28:05 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Oct30-292 The Disney Hilton in Orland, Florida was the backdrop for the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing and Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conferences. This year, a total of eight University of Illinois computer science students received scholarships to attend. Tue Oct 30 10:26:12 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Oct12-291 When Reflections|Projections kicks off on Friday, October 12, it will mark one of the largest events in its 13 year history. Bringing together more than 500 students from across the country, the ACM-run conference features talks by industry luminaries, workshops, a job fair, and a variety of competitive programming events... Fri Oct 12 13:41:24 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Sep14-290 The 2006-2007 Engineering Employment Summary shows that Computer Science majors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign come out on top... Fri Sep 14 09:02:42 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Sep12-289 With energy prices continuing their upward trend, the search is on for more efficient ways to use and create energy. For a group of computer science students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the search extends beyond the gas pump and the electric meter to computer-controlled systems... Wed Sep 12 11:18:31 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Sep12-288 University of Illinois computer science faculty and alumni are poised to make a strong showing once again at this year's IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) conference, considered one of the top conferences in the field. This year's conference will feature presentations by six Illinois computer science alumni. Prof. Josep Torrellas will also co-present two papers with his former students... Wed Sep 12 10:45:45 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Sep10-287 CS graphics professor John Hart discusses a new project at Adobe to provide movie-quality rendering tools (ray tracing) to consumer graphics with MIT Technology Review. Hart describes fundamental differences in Adobe's approach using ray tracing, and rasterization, an approach commonly used today for video games and consumer graphics... Mon Sep 10 09:25:42 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Sep7-286 The University of Illinois has been named an OpenSPARC Center of Excellence by Sun Microsystems, Inc. The Center represents a collaboration between the University of Illinois departments of computer science and electrical and computer engineering and Sun in support of OpenSPARC, a global community that fosters the creation of tools and derivative chip designs based on Sun's UltraSPARC T1 processor. Fri Sep 7 09:17:24 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Aug31-285 Computer Science Professor Brian Bailey has been honored with an NSF CAREER award to support his ongoing research on collaborative multi-display environments (CMDEs). The award was for $500K and will be distributed over a 5 year period... Fri Aug 31 13:27:56 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Aug24-284 Can the founder of PayPal strike gold again with his new company, which helps MySpace and Facebook users connect to friends?... Fri Aug 24 10:04:28 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Aug23-283 Fortune Small Business magazine has named the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to its list of the top 25 schools for entrepreneurs. Citing its technology entrepreneurship and management programs, rich double-major offerings, and record of entrepreneurial achievements, Fortune Small Business counted the U of I among the top programs for undergraduates, double-majors, and executives seeking to get a leg up in the start-up world... Thu Aug 23 15:11:33 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Aug21-282 Klara Nahrstedt, the Ralph M. and Catherine V. Fischer professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been elected by the ACM multimedia research community to be the next chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM). One of the newest of the ACM SIGs, SIGMM provides a forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners in all aspects of multimedia computing, communication, storage, and applications... Tue Aug 21 09:04:48 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Aug21-281 Parallel computing - once the exclusive domain of supercomputers and high-end scientific applications - is fast becoming ubiquitous, applied to everything from powerful servers to desktop PCs. While the new multi-core processors hold the promise of improved speed and performance, there are major challenges to make the promise a reality... Tue Aug 21 09:04:48 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Aug20-280 "G.A.M.E.S. opens a lot of doors for you, like it teaches you, and it prepares you for the rest of your life," said Sinfonie Rosales, a local 8th-grader and veteran G.A.M.E.S camper... Mon Aug 20 08:24:28 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Aug6-279 Yahoo! will establish a new presence in Champaign-Urbana with a new office employing upwards of 100 engineers. According to Kevin Timmons, vice president of operations for Yahoo!, the office will be "an extension of Yahoo - it's going to be a Yahoo office with all kinds of activities that range across all the Yahoo products." Mon Aug 6 11:42:31 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Aug3-278 While many computer science students spent the summer months working for established companies, three teams of computer science students spent the summer working to establish companies of their own.... Fri Aug 3 07:43:01 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Aug2-277 University of Illinois computer science alumnus Sergio Servetto died July 24 in a private plane accident. He was 39... Thu Aug 2 14:22:03 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Jul26-276 University of Illinois Computer Science alumnus Marc Andreessen, the boy wonder behind the first widely used Web browser, the Netscape Navigator, has had his ups and downs in the technology industry... Thu Jul 26 08:26:36 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Jul18-275 During the tsunami in South Asia, hurricanes in Florida, earthquakes in Iran and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, rescuers encountered the same challenge: how to communicate with each other amid the chaos... Wed Jul 18 09:30:41 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Jun25-274 When University of Illinois computer science Professor Vikram Adve's team decided to build a new compiler, they decided to do something a little bit different. Build a compiler that could do sophisticated tasks throughout the complete lifecycle of a process: compile-time, link-time, install-time, load-time, run-time, and even idle-time... Mon Jun 25 13:07:10 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Jun14-273 Three Computer Science faculty members will be working closely with NCSA this summer to advance their research goals. Through the NCSA Fellowship program, CS researchers will collaborate with NCSA to apply NCSA's high performance computing resources and data analysis expertise to solve demanding scientific and engineering problems... Thu Jun 14 06:25:45 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Jun8-272 Websites. Books. Databases. Documents. Reports. News articles and images. All independent sources of information, but what if a complete picture of the information you are looking for is dispersed throughout? How can you search through each disparate information source to get all the information you need? And how can you access it efficiently, to really get answers to your questions?... Fri Jun 8 18:45:30 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Jun8-271 High school girls interested in pursuing studies in computer science and information technology are often faced with challenges. Because of the gender gap for women in computer science, girls entering the study can feel isolated or have difficulty finding inspiration among fellow women computer scientists. But for the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science, connecting high school girls with inspiring college role models is all about fun. The department's Games 4 Girls competition, now in its 3rd year, challenges college women to create video games that appeal to their high school counterparts. Fri Jun 8 08:07:30 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Jun4-270 Three-time University of Illinois graduate Thomas Siebel has pledged to give a record $100 million to the university to fund science and engineering initiatives on campus... Mon Jun 4 12:56:01 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007May29-269 As the US and its allies become increasingly reliant on networked and control systems to support critical functions, concerns about the impact that security breaches could have on the economy and citizenry of the US abound... Tue May 29 09:22:17 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007May25-268 One of the holy grails in computer science has always been a machine that can understand language and learn from its experiences. It's an idea that was present in literature since long before man had any concept of modern computers. Fri May 25 11:36:52 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007May16-267 In 2006, University of Illinois Computer Science alumnus Dan Atkins was named head of the National Science Foundation's newly formed Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI), after chairing a blue ribbon panel on cyberinfrastructure for the foundation. Atkins discussed cyberinfrastructure with NCSA Access Magazine's J. William Bell in early 2007... Wed May 16 13:20:19 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007May15-266 CHAMPAIGN - The co-founder of the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube told the 2007 University of Illinois graduates he didn't have any great insights into the meaning of life... Tue May 15 09:37:38 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007May9-265 Several Computer Science faculty members have been recognized by the campus and the college for excellence in teaching and advising... Tue May 9 7:44:10 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007May8-264 On April 21-22, the Department of Computer Science faculty, staff, student counselors, and volunteers staged the culmination of this year's Technical Ambassador's Competition (TAC), part of the department's ChicTech (pronounced Sheek-tek) outreach program... Tue May 8 16:30:10 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007May8-263 Surfaces are present throughout much of computer science. Need to model a wave? Use a surface. Creating a three-dimensional graphics project? Filled with surfaces. Finding the relationship between clouds of points? Perhaps it could model a surface. And when it comes time to study those surfaces, Jeff Erickson is the man to turn to... Tue May 8 09:11:10 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007May8-262 Computer science student Brandon Beamer and a team of linguistics students at the University of Illinois recently won first place in an international competition sponsored by the Association for Computational Linguistics, a society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation... Tue May 8 06:25:19 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007May8-261 Team collaboration was the apparent theme of this year's Computing Habitat Programming Competition, hosted by the Department of Computer Science. From a framework that enables developers to share source code to a technically inspired collective art canvas that uses touch screens and web cams, this year's Computing Habitat winners embodied the collaborative spirit that permeates the department... Tue May 8 06:05:26 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007May4-260 Yixin Chen, University of Illinois Computer Science Ph.D. alumnus and assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of just five new faculty nationwide to receive a New Faculty Fellowship from Microsoft Research... Fri May 4 10:01:01 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007May3-259 Two University of Illinois Computer Science students have been recognized for their research contributions with Yahoo! Key Technical Challenge grants. Wanmin Wu and Tao Cheng, CS PhD students, were two of twelve PhD students across the country who were chosen by Yahoo!... Thu May 3 09:48:56 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007May1-258 The Department of Computer Science congratulates PhD student Qiaozhu Mei, winner of one of 5 Yahoo! PhD Student Fellowships. The Yahoo! PhD Student Fellowship Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate student researchers with exceptional potential to make significant contributions and become thought leaders in their research fields... Tue May 1 09:08:13 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Apr25-257 It's 3:30 on a Friday afternoon, and Josiah, age 6, puts the finishing touches on the gerbil he's drawn. While most kids his age would be pleased with looking at their drawing, Josiah is ready to take it to the next level - making his drawing come to life on a computer screen... Wed Apr 25 16:51:41 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Apr24-256 Students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are part of a pioneering new class this semester that's preparing them to be leaders in the parallel computing revolution... Tue Apr 24 11:41:21 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Apr18-255 Dr. Geneva Belford, Coordinator of Graduate Education and Advisement for the Department of Computer Science, was honored with the University of Illinois Mothers Association Medallion of Honor at the 2007 Mom's Weekend Annual Banquet on Friday, April 13th. The annual award recognizes an individual who has used her talents to enrich the lives of others through example and service. The Mothers Association honors Dr. Belford for these qualities, her great enthusiasm and continual encouragement of her students and colleagues... Wed Apr 18 15:56:04 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Apr13-254 Over the past ten years, University of Illinois computer science researchers led by Professor Klara Nahrstedt, the Ralph M. and Catherine V. Fischer Professor of Computer Science, demonstrated the viability of kernel-level innovations for CPU multimedia scheduling, similar to the functionality now included in the new Windows Vista operating system. As such, at least two of the kernel innovations, inspired by Prof. Nahrstedt's research, present important milestones that designers of multimedia operating systems such as Vista could rely on... Wed Apr 13 9:15:04 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Apr12-253 It is now well-known that DNA and genes control our traits and characteristics, and biologists have been working for years on deciphering the DNA strands and decoding the genes to discover which genes do what. But the process is a slow one, and microscopes are not the most efficient tools. This, Saurabh Sinha believes, is a job for a computer scientist... Wed Apr 12 11:21:04 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Apr11-252 Defective chips can be expensive for computer manufacturers, especially when the hardware is recalled. They can also be a hassle for consumers, as they can cause computers to miscalculate, slow down, and, sometimes, crash. Computer-science professor Josep Torrellas thinks he has found a better way to deal with faulty chips: an efficient repair mechanism that treats hardware more like software, by fixing bugs with downloadable patches. His system is still in development, but he says it could ultimately make chip production faster and cheaper... Wed Apr 11 10:08:04 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Apr9-251 On a warm day a student may see Greg Schechter riding his unicycle to class. Once inside the classroom you might also catch Schechter, sophomore in Engineering, using a slide rule on one of his computer science tests... Mon Apr 9 11:13:06 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Apr9-250 Microsoft announces 21 winners of the Virtual Earth and SensorMap Request for Proposal programs with funding totaling US$1.1 million to help academic researchers innovate in advanced mapping and location-based search technologies... Fri Apr 9 11:02:06 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Apr6-249 The Department of Computer Science is pleased to welcome Dr. Vinton Cerf, Google Chief Evangelist and VP, co-designer of the TCP/IP protocol, and widely recognized as one of the founders of the Internet. Dr. Cerf will present "Exploring the 21st Century via the Internet" at Siebel Center on Wednesday, April 11... Fri Apr 6 09:34:06 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Apr6-248 Jared Hoberock, computer science PhD student at the University of Illinois, has been honored by NVIDIA with one of its ten fellowships to support his innovative work on programming the PC's graphics processing unit (called the GPU) to render more photorealistic scenes. This award further extends the department's history of innovative leadership in the graphics and GPU programming fields, and marks the department's sixth NVIDIA fellowship since 2002... Fri Apr 6 09:34:06 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Apr5-247 May I Have Your Attention, Please? It's a scenario that is all too familiar: as you are typing along, working on something important, a message pops up. You have new email, or an error has occurred. You have a decision to make - attend to the matter you've just been alerted to, or continue working on your more important tasks... Fri Apr 6 09:10:06 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Mar29-246 URBANA, Ill. - Yelp.com is quickly becoming the next sensation on the Internet with Illinois roots. Founded by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons, who is also a graduate of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA), Yelp is the first online service to combine social networking with personal reviews of restaurants, shopping, night life, hotels, and more. Users rely on reviews from current friends or make new ones based on common interests... Thu Mar 29 12:47:11 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Mar28-245 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Jawed Karim, an alumnus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a co-founder of YouTube, a popular video-sharing Web site, will be the speaker at the 136th U. of I. Commencement on May 13 (Sunday). He will speak at the 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. ceremonies at Assembly Hall, 1800 S. First St., Champaign... Wed Mar 28 14:43:36 CDT 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Mar22-244 The Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois is pleased to host Dr. Daniel Atkins as a Distinguished Lecturer. Dr. Atkins, an alumnus of the University, will be speaking on Thursday March 29, 2007 at 10 am, in the auditorium of NCSA. The National Science Foundation (NSF) named distinguished computer scientist Dr. Daniel E. Atkins to head its newly created Office of Cyberinfrastructure in 2006. Dr. Atkins earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Illinois. Until assuming his new role, Dr. Atkins served as professor in the School of Information and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has made major contributions to high-performance computer architecture, and led or participated in the design and construction of seven experimental machines including some of the earliest parallel computers. He developed high-speed arithmetic algorithms now widely used in the computer industry, conducted pioneering work on special-purpose architecture including collaboration with the Mayo Clinic on development of computer-assisted tomography (CAT), and chaired the committee at Michigan that developed one of the earliest computer engineering undergraduate degree programs. Thu Mar 22 10:56:55 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Mar21-243 CS Professor Karrie Karahalios has been honored with a prestigious NSF Early Career Development Award for her work in Human-Computer Interaction. Prof. Karahalios joins more than 20 other CS faculty members to have received this distinction... Thu Mar 21 10:56:55 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Mar8-241 For CS alumnus Jose Renau, assistant professor of computer engineering at UC-Santa Cruz, the open-source movement is more than just a software-based concept. As one of the five charter appointees of the OpenSPARC Community Advisory Board, and as Director of the OpenSPARC Sun Center of Excellence at UCSC, Renau is charged with fostering an open source movement for hardware chip design... Thu Mar 8 11:55:39 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Mar5-240 CS Professor Sheldon Jacobson's work in the area of Aviation Security optimization is the subject of an award winning video produced by the University of Illinois' WILL-TV. The video has won two Communicator Awards of Excellence, an international competition honoring excellence in communication. Mon Mar 5 15:39:38 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Mar1-239 Department of Computer Science Professor Yuanyuan (Y.Y.) Zhou has been recognized with a Sloan Fellowship for her work in the field of software bug detection, diagnosis, and correction... Thu Mar 1 11:26:15 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Feb23-238 Head of Department and Michael Faiman and Saburo Muroga Professor of Computer Science Marc Snir discusses his view of high-performance computing programming languages in the February 23 issue of HPCwire Magazine... Fri Feb 23 12:47:33 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Feb19-237 While many people view art and technology as two distinct fields, for Renata Sheppard, the line between art and technology is a blurry one indeed. Renata is a finalist for the first Lemelson-Illinois prize, based on her work in the tele-immersive environment research being conducted at the Department of Computer Science. But Renata isn't a computer scientist. She's a dancer... Mon Feb 19 09:24:04 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Feb13-236 On February 5, 2007, IBM announced the "Cell/B.E. University Challenge 07" a programming contest specifically created for university students and offering cash prizes to the winners... Tue Feb 13 10:47:18 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Feb13-235 Adam Vogel, a senior in Computer Science, has been selected for Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award for 2007... Tue Feb 13 10:47:18 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Feb9-234 The Department's Student Awards Committee is now taking applications for the 2007 Computer Science Student Awards. The deadline for applications is 5 p.m. Wednesday, February 28, 2007... Fri Feb 9 08:15:53 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Feb8-233 More security cameras make people feel safer, right? Not according to a survey by University of Illinois researchers, who found that folks tended to worry more about the intentions of the people behind the cameras as the number of cameras increased... Thu Feb 8 10:16:53 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Feb7-232 Modernizing the Internal Revenue's tax systems. Keeping air travel safe and efficient. Researching critical health issues. Controlling border and homeland security. Speeding up mail delivery. These are just some of the ways that CS alumna Linda Mills will be directing the IT services and products necessary to support a more efficient and effective federal government. As the new president of Northrup Grumman Corporation's Civilian Agencies business group, Mills will lead Northrop Grumman IT's enterprise-wide network solutions and IT systems development, integration, services, health solutions, program management and consulting, to help federal government agencies serve the public and protect the homeland... Wed Feb 7 09:21:16 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Feb5-231 Those fast cars barreling around the track or the kung-fu fighters duking it out on the screen, all rendered in cinema-like quality, just look like a game. What you're really witnessing is a sophisticated physics simulation - that is to say, simulation of the physical world... Mon Feb 5 09:49:27 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Feb2-230 One computer, five hours, pencils, paper and three people. That's all the University's programming team has to win one of the most prestigious programming competitions for college students - and they are set to do it... Fri Feb 2 13:13:06 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Jan26-229 Student teams to get chance to turn ideas into start-up businesses As graduates, they became major players in the technology world, establishing such companies as PayPal and YouTube. Now, even before graduation, students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will get a chance to launch their own start-up companies... Fri Jan 26 12:42:54 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Jan21-228 Congratulations to Marianne Winslett, research professor in the Department of Computer Science, for being named as a 2006 Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)... Sun Jan 21 11:19:28 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Jan18-227 Department of Computer Science alumna, and Inc. Magazine's 2005 Entrepreneur of the Year, Ping Fu will return to Champaign-Urbana to present at the Women in Business Leadership Conference on February 10, 2007. The speech is open to the public... Thu Jan 18 21:43:10 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007Jan17-226 Beating people at Scrabble is already no contest for computer programs, which can easily memorise entire dictionaries. Now a Scrabble-playing program has gone one better by playing dirty... Wed Jan 17 10:24:55 CST 2007 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2006Dec18-225 On Friday, December 8, audiences at UIUC and at UC-Berkeley were treated to an experience quite unlike any other - a live dance performance. Sounds more run-of-the-mill than groundbreaking? What if you knew that the dancers were more than 2,000 miles apart, yet were seen to hug each other, lay their heads on each others laps, and shove one another out of an imaginary boat? ... 18 Dec 2006 12:27:12 CST http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2006Dec18-224 The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was named the #6 most wired college by PC Magazine, in their upcoming January 2007 edition... 18 Dec 2006 12:16:12 CST http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2006Dec14-223 Researchers from the UIUC Department of Computer Science were awarded the Best Paper Award for their presentation "Phoenix: Detecting and Recovering from Permanent Processor Design Bugs with Programmable Hardware" at the 39th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) in Orlando, FL December 11-13, 2006. 14 Dec 2006 12:06:12 CST http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2006Dec14-222 Do you have the next billion dollar idea? Have a concept for the next industry shaping product or web service, but want help getting it off the ground? Are you looking for guidance and funding to turn your billion dollar dream into a reality?... 14 Dec 2006 10:26:12 CST http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2006Dec14-221 IBM announced that UIUC, along with nine other universities across the globe have been chosen as winners of the latest IBM Shared University Research (SUR) awards. The Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, along with other distinguished domestic and international universities, will be using the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) technology to enable students and faculty to drive innovation, collaborate and foster skill development in the creation of digital media, software platform performance and medical imaging solutions... 14 Dec 2006 10:24:12 CST http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2006Dec11-220 Congratulations to Jonathan Ray, senior in CS; Jacob Lee, junior in CS, and Jesse Beder, a first-year graduate student in Mathematics for making it into the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world. To earn the spot, they placed 2nd in the Midwest Regional Contest of the 31st Annual ACM-ICPC, sponsored by IBM... 11 Dec 2006 12:02:12 CST http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2006Nov30-217 Steve LaValle, a professor in the Department of Computer Science, and mathematics professor Rob Ghrist, are co-PI's of the SToMP (Sensor Topology for Minimal Planning) research project funded by a $7.8 million DARPA grant that gives them the chance to act as the Phil Jackson of the robotics world. As a multi-year interdisciplinary project, SToMP brings together a "dream team" of researchers cross-country to collaborate on basic principles of robotics, computer science, control theory, and mathematics. Together with the best researchers from top institutions, their task is to "develop and implement global topological tools to dramatically reduce the amount of sensing complexity needed to solve problems across a variety of Department of Defense applications involving sensor networks, autonomous systems, and configurable sensor platforms." 30 Nov 2006 12:02:12 CST http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2006Nov28-216 Professor Marc Snir, the Michael Faiman and Saburo Muroga Professor of Computer Science and head of the Department of Computer Science, has been awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Marc was chosen for his outstanding technical leadership and contributions to the development of parallel computation and scalable parallel systems architectures, and for administration in industry and academia. 28 Nov 2006 11:58:12 CST http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2006Nov14-215 Our distinguished alumni, Jawed Karim and Steve Chen, have been honored as Time Magazine, in its November 13, 2006 issue, selects YouTube as the Best Invention of the Year. 14 Nov 2006 11:23:12 CST http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2006Nov1-214 At 20 and 50 minutes past each hour, "Mirror Site: Back-to-Back," a video art installation, interrupts regular programming on a Siebel Center plasma display to allow for a two-way video portal. The live video connection links the busy first floor lobby of our Siebel Center, near caffeine power source Bevande Cafe, and the main lobby of Brandeis University's Shapiro Student Center. Brandeis University, one of the youngest private research universities in the U.S., is named for the late Justice Louis Brandeis of the U.S. Supreme Court, and is situated in Waltham, Mass... 1 Nov 2006 09:56:12 CST