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| name = DepartmentSiebel School of<br>Computing and ComputerData Science

| image = [[File:Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science.jpg|240px|A photo of the Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign]]

| caption = The [[Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science|Siebel Center]] building

| establishedformer_name = {{StartDepartment date|1964of (1949Computer asScience the Digital Computer Laboratory(1964–2024)}}

| established = 1964 (1949 as the Digital Computer Laboratory)

| type = [[Public university|Public]]

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| head_label = [[Department Head]]Dean

| head = [[Nancy M. 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|date=12 July 2018 |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>

| academic_staff = 110<ref name=statistics>{{Cite web |title=Rankings & Statistics {{!}} Computer Science {{!}} UIUC |url=https://cs.illinois.edu/about/statistics |access-date=10 March 2022}}</ref>

| enrollment = 5315 (Fall 2023)<ref name=statistics/>

| address = 201 North Goodwin Avenue

| city = [[Urbana, Illinois|Urbana]]

| state = [[Illinois]]

| country = [[United States of America]]USA

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The '''University of Illinois Department of Computer Science''' is the academic department encompassing the discipline of [[computer science]] at the [[University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign]]. According to [[U.S. News & World Report]], both its undergraduate and graduate programs rank in the top five among American universities,<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=10 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Best Undergraduate Computer Science Programs Rankings|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/computer-science-overall|accessdate=10 March 2022}}</ref> and according to Computer Science Open Rankings,<ref>{{Cite web |title=computer science open rankings |url=https://drafty.cs.brown.edu/csopenrankings/ |access-date=19 April 2022}}</ref> the department ranks equally high in placing Ph.D. students in tenure-track positions at top universities and winning best paper awards. The department also ranks in the top two among all universities for faculty submissions to reputable journals and academic conferences, as determined by CSRankings.org.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://csrankings.org/|title=CSRankings: Computer Science Rankings|first=Emery|last=Berger|date=10 March 2022}}</ref> From before its official founding in 1964 to today, the department's faculty members and alumni have contributed to projects including the [[ORDVAC]], [[PLATO (computer system)|PLATO]], [[Mosaic (web browser)]], [[JavaScript]] and [[LLVM]], and have founded companies including [[Siebel Systems]], [[Netscape]], [[Mozilla]], [[PayPal]], [[Yelp]], [[YouTube]], and [[Malwarebytes]].

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 university 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.<ref name=":0" />

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>

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>

==Degrees and programs==

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==In popular culture==

In the movie1968 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 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

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* [[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

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==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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* [[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 C3.ai

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* [[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

==See also==

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[[Category:Computer science departments in the United States]]

[[Category:1964 establishments in Illinois]]

[[Category:Computer science institutes]]