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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==
==In popular culture==
In the movie [[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 news| date=January 12, 2011|title=HAL of a Computer| url= https://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/tag/university-of-illinois | work=[[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>
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== Notable faculty ==
* [[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==
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