Illinois Team Lands Major NSF Funding to Bring Spreadsheets into "Big Data" Era Apr 7, 2017 8:00 amNews Article Share on Facebook Tweet Email Images CS @ ILLINOIS faculty Chang, Parameswaran, and Karahalios landed a prestigious NSF BIGDATA grant--$1.8 million over four years--to develop DataSpread, a system that holistically unifies spreadsheets and database systems. Share on Facebook Tweet Email