On September 10 and 11, more than 70 researchers in the area of parallel computing came together in the Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science to discuss innovations in the area of parallel computing. The Illinois Symposium on Parallelism: Current State of the Field and the Future was in part a celebration of the research work that had been going on at the Illinois Parallelism Center since 2008. The Center was a partnership between the University of Illinois and Intel and Microsoft during 2008-2010, and between the University of Illinois and Intel during 2011-2013.