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{{Infobox university
| name = Siebel School of
| 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]]
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| former_name = Department of Computer Science (1964–2024)
| established = 1964 (1949 as the Digital Computer Laboratory)
| type = [[Public university|Public]]
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| 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>
| address = 201 North Goodwin Avenue
| city = [[Urbana, Illinois|Urbana]]
| state = [[Illinois]]
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▲ | website = {{URL|https://siebelschool.illinois.edu}}
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The '''Siebel School of Computing and Data Science''' (formerly known as the '''Department of Computer Science'''
==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]], 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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* [[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
* [[Ping Fu]] M.S. 1990, [[Geomagic]]
* [[Mary Jane Irwin]] M.S. 1971, PhD. 1975, [[National Academy of Engineering|NAE]] member; computer architecture researcher
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[[Category:Computer science departments in the United States]]
[[Category:1964 establishments in Illinois]]
[[Category:Computer science institutes]]
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