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==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. 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>{{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>

==Degrees and programs==

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* [[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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* [[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]]