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| name = Siebel School of<br>Computing and Data Science

| name = Department of Computer Science - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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| former_name = Department of Computer Science (1964–2024)

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| head = [[Nancy Amato]]<ref name="cs-illinois-edu-amato">{{cite web|title=Nancy Amato Named Next Department Head of Computer Science |url=https://cs.illinois.edu/news/nancy-amato-named-next-department-head-computer-science|accessdate=13 Jul 2018}}</ref><ref name="news-gazette-amato">{{cite web|title=Robotics expert to be first woman to lead UI computer-science department|url=http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2018-07-12/robotics-expert-be-first-woman-lead-ui-computer-science-department.html|accessdate=13 Jul 2018}}</ref>

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'''The Department of Computer Science''' (CS) at '''the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign''' has consistently been ranked as a top computer science program in the world. [[U.S. News & World Report]] rank UIUC's Computer Science as a Top 5 CS Graduate School program in the nation as of 2018,<ref>{{cite web|title=Best Computer Science Programs {{!}} Top Computer Science Schools {{!}} US News Best Graduate Schools|url=http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings|accessdate=18 July 2018}}</ref> and Top 5 CS Undergraduate School program in the nation as of 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=2021 Best Undergraduate Computer Science Programs Rankings|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/computer-science-overall|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref> The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is also ranked as one of the Top 5 Graduate Schools in Computer Engineering.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Computer {{!}} Rankings {{!}} US News Best Colleges|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/computer-engineering-rankings|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=25 October 2020|website=colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com}}</ref> CSrankings.org <ref>{{cite web|url=http://csrankings.org/#/index?all&world|title=CS Rankings by Publications {{!}} Top Research Computer Science Schools {{!}} csrankings.org|accessdate=15 July 2019}}</ref> puts UIUC in the Top 2 Computer Science schools in the world by publications and research output in top conferences over the past 10 years. Since its reorganization in 1964,<ref>{{cite web|title=History Timeline {{!}} Department of Computer Science at Illinois|url=https://cs.illinois.edu/about-us/history-timeline}}</ref> the Department of Computer Science has produced a myriad of publications and research that have advanced the field of Computer Science. In addition, many faculty and alumni have been leads with modern-day applications and projects such as [[Mosaic (web browser)]], [[LLVM]], [[PayPal]], [[Yelp]], [[YouTube]], [[Malwarebytes]], and [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]].

The '''Siebel School of Computing and Data Science''' (formerly known as the '''Department of Computer Science''' from 1964 to 2024) is a department-level school within the [[Grainger College of Engineering]] at the [[University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign]].

==History==

In 1949, the University of Illinois created the '''Digital Computer Laboratory''' following the joint funding between the Universityuniversity and the U.S. Army to create the [[ORDVAC]] and [[ILLIAC I]] computers under the direction of physicist Ralph Meagher.<ref>{{cite web|title=CS History Timeline {{!}} Department of Computer Science at Illinois|url=http://cs.illinois.edu/about-us/cs-history/cs-history-timeline|accessdate=18 June 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151229094249/https://cs.illinois.edu/about-us/cs-history/cs-history-timeline|archivedate=29 December 2015}}</ref> The ORDVAC and ILLIAC computers the two earliest von-Neumann architecture machines to be constructed. Once completed in 1952, the [[ILLIAC I]] inspired machines such as the [[MISTIC]], [[MUSASINO-1]], [[SILLIAC]], and [[Cyclone (computer)|CYCLONE]], as well as providing the impetus for the university to continue its research in computing through the [[ILLIAC II]] project. Yet despite such advances in high-performance computing, faculty at the Digital Computer Laboratory continued to conduct research in other fields of computing as well, such as in Human-Computer Interaction through the [[PLATO (computer system)|PLATO]] project, the first computer music (the [[Illiac Suite|ILLIAC Suite]]), computational numerical methods through the work of [[Donald B. Gillies]], and [[James E. Robertson]], the 'R' co-inventor of the [[Division algorithm#SRT division|SRT division algorithm]], to name a few. Given this explosion in research in computing, in 1964, the University of Illinois reorganized the Digital Computer Laboratory into the Department of Computer Science, and by 1967, the department awarded its first PhD and master's degrees in Computer Science. In 1982, UIUC physicist Larry Smarr wrote a blistering critique of America's supercomputing resources,<ref>{{cite journal|titlename=The supercomputer famine in american universities |last1=Smarr |first1= Larry|journal= The Report of the Panel on Large Scale Computing in Science and Engineering|editor= P. D. Lax|year=1982}}</ref> and as a result the [[National Science Foundation]] established the UIUC's [[National Center for Supercomputing Applications]] in 1985. NCSA was one of the first places in industry or academia to develop software for the 3 major operating systems at the time - Macintosh, PC, and UNIX. NCSA in 1986 released [[NCSA Telnet]] and in 1993 it released the [[Mosaic (web browser)|Mosaic]] web browser. In 2004, the Department of Computer Science moved out of the [[UIUC Engineering Campus#Digital Computer Laboratory|Digital Computer Laboratory building]] into the [[Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science]] following a gift from alumnus [[Thomas Siebel]].<ref>{{cite web|title=About the Siebel Center {{!}} Department of Computer Science at Illinois|url=https"://cs.illinois.edu/about-us/about-siebel-center|accessdate=180" June 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528233053/http://cs.illinois.edu/about-us/about-siebel-center|archivedate=28 May 2016}}</ref>

==Statistics==

As of the 2017–2018 academic year, there are a total of 2702 students in the department. (1787 Undergraduate, 915 Graduate).<ref name=statistics>{{cite web|url=https://cs.illinois.edu/about-us/statistics |title=Statistics|publisher=Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|accessdate=18 July 2018}}</ref>

The average salary reported by 2018-2019 undergraduates was $106,551.<ref name="statistics" />

Given this explosion in research in computing, in 1964, the University of Illinois reorganized the Digital Computer Laboratory into the '''Department of Computer Science''', and by 1967, the department awarded its first PhD and master's degrees in Computer Science. In 1982, UIUC physicist Larry Smarr wrote a blistering critique of America's supercomputing resources,<ref>{{cite journal|title=The supercomputer famine in american universities |last1=Smarr |first1= Larry|journal= The Report of the Panel on Large Scale Computing in Science and Engineering|editor= P. D. Lax|year=1982}}</ref> and as a result the [[National Science Foundation]] established the [[National Center for Supercomputing Applications]] in 1985. NCSA was one of the first places in industry or academia to develop software for the 3 major operating systems at the time – Macintosh, PC, and UNIX. NCSA in 1986 released [[NCSA Telnet]] and in 1993 it released the [[Mosaic (web browser)|Mosaic]] web browser. In 2004, the Department of Computer Science moved out of the [[UIUC Engineering Campus#Digital Computer Laboratory|Digital Computer Laboratory building]] into the [[Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science]] following a gift from alumnus [[Thomas Siebel]].<ref name=":0">{{cite web|title=About the Siebel Center {{!}} Department of Computer Science at Illinois|url=https://cs.illinois.edu/about-us/about-siebel-center|accessdate=18 June 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528233053/http://cs.illinois.edu/about-us/about-siebel-center|archivedate=28 May 2016}}</ref>

Incoming 2018 freshman class average ACT score: 33.5; average math ACT score: 34.0.<ref name="statistics" />

The Department of Computer Science was renamed the '''Siebel School of Computing and Data Science''' in 2024, following a $50 million gift from [[Thomas M. Siebel]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Communications |first=Grainger Engineering Office of Marketing and |title=Siebel School of Computing and Data Science FAQ |url=https://siebelschool.illinois.edu/about/scds-faq |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=siebelschool.illinois.edu |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-26 |title=University of Illinois to Revamp Computer Science Department |url=https://www.govtech.com/education/higher-ed/university-of-illinois-to-revamp-computer-science-department |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=GovTech |language=en}}</ref>

There are 85 full-time faculty members,<ref>{{cite web|title=Department Faculty|url=https://cs.illinois.edu/people/faculty/department-faculty|accessdate=18 July 2018}}</ref> in the fields of:<ref>{{cite web|title=Research Areas {{!}} Department of Computer Science at Illinois|url=http://cs.illinois.edu/research/areas|accessdate=18 July 2018}}</ref>

* Architecture, Compilers and Parallel Computing

* Artificial Intelligence

* Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

* Computers and Education

* Database and Information Systems

* Graphics, Visualization, and HCI

* Programming Languages, Formal Systems, and Software Engineering

* Systems and Networking

* Scientific Computing

* Theory and Algorithms

==Degrees and programs==

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The department offers 14 undergraduate degree programs, all leading to Bachelor of Science degrees, through six different colleges:

* Computer Science ([[UIUC College of Engineering|Engineering]])

* Computer Science and Physics ([[UIUC College of Engineering|Engineering]])

* Mathematics and Computer Science ([[UIUC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences|Liberal Arts and Science]])

* Statistics and Computer Science ([[UIUC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences|LAS]])

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* [https://music.illinois.edu/degree/bachelor-science-csmusic Computer Science and Music] ([[UIUC College of Fine and Applied Arts|Fine and Applied Arts]])

The department also sponsors a Minorminor in Computercomputer Sciencescience available to all UIUC students.

The department also offers two 5-year bachelors/masters programs through the College of Engineering: Bachelor of Science/Master of Science (B.S./M.S.) in Computer Science and Bachelors of Science/Masters of Computer Science(B.S./M.C.S.).

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** [https://cs.illinois.edu/academics/graduate/professional-mcs-program/mcs-data-science-track MCS in Data Science](MCS-DS) Track is offered in partnership with the [https://ischool.illinois.edu/ School of Information Science], the [https://stat.illinois.edu/ Department of Statistics], and [https://www.coursera.org/degrees/masters-in-computer-data-science Coursera]

* Master of Science in Bioinformatics (M.S. Bioinformatics)

==In popular culture==

In the 1968 film ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', the antagonist and sentient computer [[HAL 9000]] says it was made operational at the HAL Plant in Urbana, Illinois which was meant to represent the [[Coordinated Science Laboratory]] where the [[ILLIAC]] project was conducted.<ref name="Urbana 1992/7">{{Cite magazine| date=January 12, 2011|title=HAL of a Computer| url= https://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/tag/university-of-illinois | magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |first=Randy|last=Alfred| url-status= dead| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110629023223/http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/tag/university-of-illinois/| archive-date= June 29, 2011| access-date= May 30, 2019}}</ref>

== Notable faculty ==

* [[Sarita Adve]], principal investigator for the [[UPCRC Illinois|Universal Parallel Computing Research Center]]

* [[Vikram Adve]], helped to create [[LLVM]] along with [[Chris Lattner]], Former Interim Head of the Department of Computer Science<ref name="cs.illinois.edu">{{cite web|title=Vikram Adve named Interim Head of CS @ Illinois|url=https://cs.illinois.edu/news/vikram-adve-named-interim-head-cs-illinois|accessdate=27 May 2017}}</ref>

* [[Gul Agha (computer scientist)|Gul Agha]], director of the Open Systems Laboratory and researcher in [[Concurrent computing|concurrent computation]]

* [[Prith Banerjee]], former senior Vice President of Research at [[Hewlett Packard]] and director of [[HP Labs]]

* [[Roy H. Campbell]], Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Professor of Computer Science

* [[Timothy M. Chan]], Founder Professor of Computer Science

* [[Herbert Edelsbrunner]], recipient of the [[National Science Foundation]]'s [[Alan T. Waterman Award]]

* [[David Forsyth (computer scientist)|David Forsyth]], Professor of Computer Science

* [[C. William Gear]], mathematician specialized in [[numerical analysis]], [[Computer graphics (computer science)|computer graphics]], and [[software development]]

* [[Donald B. Gillies|Donald B. Gilles]], mathematician and computer scientist specialized in [[game theory]] and [[computer architecture]]

* [[Bill Gropp]], Thomas M. Siebel Chair Professor of Computer Science, director of the [[National Center for Supercomputing Applications]], and co-creator of [[Message Passing Interface]], IEEE Computer Society President-Elect<ref>{{Cite web|title=William D. Gropp Voted IEEE Computer Society 2021 President-Elect {{!}} IEEE Computer Society|date=29 September 2020 |url=https://www.computer.org/press-room/2020-news/gropp-voted-ieee-computer-society-2021-president-elect|access-date=2021-07-06|language=en-US}}</ref> (2021)

* [[Jiawei Han]], [[Abel Bliss Professorship|Abel Bliss Professor]] specialized in [[data mining]]

* [[Michael Heath (computer scientist)|Michael Heath]], director of the [[Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets]] and former interim department head (2007–2009)

* [[Thomas Huang]], researcher and professor emeritus specialized in [[Human–computer interaction|Human-Computer Interaction]]

* [[Ralph Johnson (computer scientist)|Ralph Johnson]], Research Associate Professor and co-author of ''[[Design Patterns (book)|Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software]]''

* [[David Kuck]], sole software designer on the [[ILLIAC IV]] and developer of the [[ILLIAC|CEDAR]] project

* [[Steven M. LaValle]], principal scientist at [[Oculus Rift]]

* [[Chung Laung Liu]], Professor of Computer Science

* [[Ursula Martin]], computer scientist specialized in [[theoretical computer science]] and [[formal methods]] and a [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]]

* [[Bruce H. McCormick|Bruce McCormick]], professor of physics, computer science, and bioengineering

* [[Klara Nahrstedt]], Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professor of Computer Science and director of the [[Coordinated Science Laboratory]]

* [[David Plaisted]], faculty at the Department of Computer Science until professorship at [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|UNC-Chapel Hill]]

* [[Daniel A. Reed (computer scientist)|Daniel Reed]], former department head (1996–2001) and former director of the [[National Center for Supercomputing Applications]] (2000–2003)

* [[Edward Reingold]], specialized in [[algorithm]]s and [[data structure]]s

* [[Dan Roth]], Professor of Computer Science

* [[Rob A. Rutenbar]], [[Abel Bliss Professorship|Abel Bliss Professor]] and former department head (2010–2017),<ref>{{cite web|title=Head of UI's computer-science department leaving for Pitt|date=11 April 2017 |url=http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2017-04-11/head-uis-computer-science-department-leaving-pitt.html|accessdate=27 May 2017}}</ref> noted for advances in computer hardware

* [[Marc Snir]], Michael Faiman and Saburo Muroga Professor of Computer Science and former department head (2001–2007)

* [[Shang-Hua Teng]], Professor of Computer Science and [[Gödel Prize]] laureate

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* [[Stephen Wolfram]], former Professor of Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science and founder of [[Wolfram Research]]

* [[Frances Yao]], Professor of Computer Science and staff at [[Xerox Palo Alto Research Center]]

* [[Yuanyuan Zhou]], Professor of Computer Science and founder of [[Emphora]], [[Pattern Insight]], and [[Whova]] oe

==Notable alumni==

* [[Sohaib Abbasi]] B.S. 1978, M.S. 1980, former CEO of [[Informatica]]

* [[Nancy M. Amato|Nancy Amato]] Ph.D. 1995, Unocal Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at [[Texas A&M University]], steering member of [[CRA-W]], and current head of the [[Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign]]<ref name="cs-illinois-edu-amato" /><ref name="news-gazette-amato" />

* [[Daniel E. Atkins III]] Ph.D. 1970, Inaugural Director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure for the U.S. National Science Foundation.

* [[Marc Andreessen]] B.S. 1993, [[Mosaic (web browser)]], [[Netscape]]

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* [[Steve Dorner]] B.S. 1983, [[Eudora (email client)]]

* [[Brendan Eich]] M.S. 1986, [[JavaScript]], [[Mozilla]]

* [[Clarence Ellis (computer scientist)|Clarence Ellis]] Ph.D. 1969, First African-American Computer Science Doctorate recipient and pioneer in [[Computer-supported cooperative work|Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)]] and [[Groupware]]

* [[Ping Fu]] M.S. 1990, [[Geomagic]]

* [[Mary Jane Irwin]] M.S. 1971, PhD. 1975, [[National Academy of Engineering|NAE]] member; computer architecture researcher

* [[Jawed Karim]] B.S. 2004, [[YouTube]]

* [[Robert Mercer (businessman)|Robert L. Mercer]] M.S. 1970, Ph.D. 1972, co-CEO of [[Renaissance Technologies]] and pioneer in [[Computational linguistics|Computational Linguistics]]

* [[Marcin Kleczynski]] B.S. 2012, CEO and founder of [[Malwarebytes]]

* [[Pete Koomen]] M.S. 2006, co-founder and CTO of [[Optimizely]]

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* [[Der-Tsai Lee]] M.S. 1976, Ph.D. 1978, 14th President of [[National Chung Hsing University]]

* [[Max Levchin]] B.S. 1997, [[PayPal]], Slide

* [[Nimit Maru]] B.S. 2004, co-founder and CEO of [[Fullstack Academy]]

* [[Robert McCool]], B.S. 1995, author of the original [[NCSA HTTPd]] web server and the [[Common Gateway Interface]] (CGI)

* [[Mary T. McDowell]] B.S. 1986, former CEO of [[Polycom]], former executive vice president at [[Nokia]]

* [[Peng T. Ong]] M.S. 1988, co-founder of [[Match.com]]

* [[Ray Ozzie]] B.S. 1979, [[IBM Notes|Lotus Notes]], [[Microsoft SharePoint Workspace|Groove Networks]], and former CTO and Chief Software Architect at [[Microsoft]].

* [[Anna Patterson]] Ph.D. 1998, Vice President of Engineering, Artificial Intelligence at [[Google]] and co-founder of [[Cuil]]

* [[Linda Petzold]] B.S. 1974, Ph.D. 1978, Professor of Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering at [[University of California, Santa Barbara|UC Santa Barbara]], [[National Academy of Engineering|NAE]] member, and [[J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software]] recipient; computational science and engineering researcher

* [[Fontaine Richardson]] Ph.D. 1968, founder of [[Applicon]]

* [[Thomas Siebel]] M.S. 1985, founder, chairman, and CEO of [[Siebel Systems]]; founder, chairman, and CEO of [http://wwwC3.c3energy.com C3]ai

* [[Russel Simmons]] B.S. 1998, co-founder and initial CTO of [[Yelp, Inc.|Yelp, Inc]] and a member of the [[PayPal Mafia]]

* [[Anil Singhal]] M.C.S. 1979, co-founder and CEO of [[NetScout Systems]]

* [[James E. Smith (engineer)|James E. Smith]] M.S. 1974, Ph.D. 1976, winner of the 1999 [[Eckert–Mauchly Award]]

* [[Jeremy Stoppelman|Jeremy Stoppleman]] B.S. 1999, co-founder and CEO of [[Yelp, Inc.|Yelp, Inc]].

* [[Parisa Tabriz]] B.S. 2005, M.S. 2007, computer security expert at [[Google]] and Forbes 2012 "Top 30 People Under 30 To Watch in the Technology Industry"

* [[Mark Tebbe]] B.S. 1983, Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at [[Booth School of Business]] at the [[University of Chicago]] and co-founder of [[Answers Corporation]]

* [[Andrew Yao]] Ph.D. 1975, [[Turing awardAward]] winner, theoretical computer science researcher

==In popular culture==

* In [[2001: A Space Odyssey]], [[HAL 9000]] is said to have been made operational at the HAL Plant in Urbana, Illinois which was meant to represent the [[Coordinated Science Laboratory]] where the [[ILLIAC]] project was conducted

==See also==

* [[Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology]]

* [[Grainger College of Engineering]]

* [[Coordinated Science Laboratory]]

* [[ILLIAC]]

* [[UIUC College of Engineering]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

==External links==

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* {{Official website|https://cs.illinois.edu/}}

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