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  • Upgrading Programming for Mobile Cloud

    Feb 2, 2015 8:00 am0 views

    CS Professor Gul Agha, along with CS Associate Professor Darko Marinov, proposes a new methodology for building mobile cloud applications that can leverage cloud resources in a scalable way, while dramatically simplifying the development effort.

  • UPCRC Illinois Educates Programmers on Multicore Programming

    Jun 26, 2009 8:00 am0 views

    Over 150 programmers participated in the first UPCRC Illinois Summer School on Multicore Programming, June 22-26, 2009.

  • U of I's Tim Stelzer on Learning Physics with Interactive Media

    Oct 10, 2011 8:00 am0 views

    From NatureEdCast: Tim has created and used a new system of media tools that have improved learning in introductory physics...

  • U. of I. researcher wins MacArthur Award

    Sep 22, 2009 8:00 am0 views

    John Rogers, the Lee J. Flory-Founder Chair in Engineering Innovation and a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois, has been named a 2009 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

  • U. of I. opens state-of-the-art dorm for students with disabilities

    Aug 18, 2010 8:00 am0 views

    Chicago Tribune -- Move-in day at the new technologically sophisticated Nugent Hall for students with disabilities...

  • U of I Graduate Student Wins $100,000 Singapore Challenge Prize

    Mar 21, 2016 8:00 am0 views

    Carlos Duarte-Guevara, a graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, received the Singapore Challenge 2016 Prize.

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    U of I Engineering Professor Appointed to US Department of Energy Leadership Role

    May 10, 2021 4:00 pm0 views

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Kathryn D. Huff, a professor of nuclear, plasma and radiological engineering in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has accepted an appointment to a senior leadership position in the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy.

  • U of I Chosen for NIH Center of Excellence for Big Data Computing

    Nov 17, 2014 8:00 am0 views

    The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be the home of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center of Excellence for Big Data Computing, part of a wide-ranging effort to develop new strategies to analyze and leverage the explosion of increasingly complex biomedical data sets, often referred to as Big Data.

  • Unlocking Fermentation Secrets Opens the Door to New Biofuels

    Jun 29, 2015 8:00 am0 views

    "In this study, we developed an integrated computational framework for the analysis and exploitation of the solvent metabolism by C. acetobutylicum," said Chen Liao, a bioengineering graduate student and first author of the paper, "Integrated, Systems Metabolic Picture of Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol Fermentation by Clostridium acetobutylicum," appearing in this week’s Early Edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

  • University of Illinois Researchers Transmit Data through Animal Tissues at HD Rates via Ultrasound

    Oct 19, 2016 8:00 am0 views

    University of Illinois researchers have demonstrated the possibility of real-time video-rate data transmission through tissue for in-body ultrasonic communications with implanted medical devices.

  • University of Illinois Researchers Tackling Potential Antibiotic Shortfall

    Jul 17, 2013 8:00 am0 views

    University of Illinois researchers, working under professors Charles Schroeder and Paul Kenis, are developing a potential solution to the risk of running out of any effective antibiotics to treat bacterial infections.

  • University of Illinois Researchers Measure Near-Field Behavior of Semiconductor Plasmonic Microparticles

    Jun 3, 2013 8:00 am0 views

    Recent progress in the engineering of plasmonic structures has enabled new kinds of nanometer-scale optoelectronic devices as well as high-resolution optical sensing. But until now, there has been a lack of tools for measuring nanometer-scale behavior in plasmonic structures which are needed to understand device performance and to confirm theoretical models. The article describing the research, Near-field infrared absorption of plasmonic semiconductor microparticles studied using atomic force microscope infrared spectroscopy, appears in Applied Physics Letters.

  • University of Illinois researchers lead three new NSF-funded centers for innovation

    Dec 14, 2016 8:00 am0 views

    The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign leads/co-leads three new centers of innovation funded through the National Science Foundation's Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) program.

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    University of Illinois researchers are part of a $15M institute developing real-time artificial intelligence to accelerate discovery in data-driven science

    Oct 27, 2021 12:30 pm0 views

    The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced its launch of the $15M Accelerated AI Algorithms for Data-Driven Discovery (A3D3) Institute, as part of its $75M investment in five new Harnessing the Data Revolution Institutes across the U.S. Researchers at the new Institutes will tackle some of society’s most pressing fundamental questions at the frontiers of science and engineering. The primary mission of the A3D3 Institute is to lead a paradigm shift in the application of real-time artificial intelligence at scale to advance scientific knowledge and accelerate discovery.

  • University of Illinois Part of $25 Million Software Institute to Enable Discoveries in High-Energy Physics

    Nov 9, 2018 8:00 am0 views

    The NSF announced its launch of the IRIS-HEP. The software-focused institute will tackle the unprecedented torrent of data that will come from the high-luminosity running of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

  • University of Illinois, Micron Enhance Speed and Battery Life of Mobile, IoT Devices with Deep In-Memory Architecture

    Apr 5, 2019 8:00 am0 views

    Research conducted through a partnership between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Micron Technology, Inc., could help your cell phone and IoT devices run applications faster and conserve battery life at the same time. These advancements are courtesy of the team’s development of a new deep in-memory architecture (DIMA) for NAND flash memory, which provides data storage for most of the world’s mobile devices.

  • University of Illinois Library Launches Open-Access Digital Publishing Network

    Jun 5, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    The University of Illinois Library has launched a digital publishing initiative, the Illinois Open Publishing Network, with its first work--a new English translation of a memoir of Claude Monet.

  • University of Illinois-led SONIC Center Awarded $30 Million for Computing on Nanoscale Fabrics

    Feb 25, 2013 7:00 am0 views

    Led by faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a multi-university research team has received $30 million to launch the Systems On Nanoscale Information fabriCs (SONIC) Center.

  • University of Illinois Collaborates with Mayo Clinic to Revolutionize Genomic Data Analysis

    Nov 14, 2014 8:00 am0 views

    The National Institutes of Health created the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative to enable efforts to harness the potential of this flood of information. As part of the first wave of BD2K funding, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Mayo Clinic have now received a $9.34M, 4-year award to create one of several new Centers of Excellence for Big Data Computing.

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Central to New, $320-million Digital Lab for Manufacturing

    Mar 5, 2014 8:00 am2 views

    The Digital Lab for Manufacturing is an applied research institute that will develop digital manufacturing technologies and commercialize these technologies with key industries. These technologies will be used to make everything from consumer products to heavy machinery to equipment for the military. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s world-renowned National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) are central to the Digital Lab for Manufacturing. Professor William King from Illinois’ Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering is the Digital Lab’s principal investigator and will serve as its Chief Technical Officer.

  • University of Illinois and Mayo Clinic create research alliance

    Jun 22, 2010 8:00 am0 views

    The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Mayo Clinic are forming a strategic alliance designed to promote a broad spectrum of collaborative research, the development of new technologies and clinical tools, and the design and implementation of novel education programs...

  • University Biotech Startup Receives $750,000 Phase II Funding from NSF

    May 19, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    A biotech startup at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has just received a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II funding award of $750,000 from the National Science Foundation to develop a handheld device that even non-specialists can use to quickly detect severe eye injuries, whether it is in a farm field or on a battlefield.

  • University Awards Blue Waters' Access to 22 Campus Projects

    Jul 19, 2013 8:00 am0 views

    The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has awarded access to the Blue Waters supercomputer which is capable of performing quadrillions of calculations every second and of working with quadrillions of bytes of data to 22 campus research teams from a wide range of disciplines.

  • Unexpected Spin Alkali Atoms Unlock MRI Possibilities

    Apr 25, 2018 8:00 am0 views

    Research conducted at the Laboratory for Optical Physics and Engineering Professor Eden, alumnus J.D. Hewitt, and post-doctoral researcher Andrey Mironov demonstrated an optical process by which the electron spin of the alkali metals, such as cesium and rubidium, can be specified.

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    Undergraduate Research Experience Leads to Job Opportunities at Sandia National Labs

    May 3, 2021 9:45 pm14 views

    ECE juniors Alyssa Bradshaw and Adia Radecka, who are members of an all-undergraduate engineering research team, recently presented their work on biocompatible actuators at RoboSoft 2021, a major IEEE international conference on soft robotics.

  • Undergrad Startup Charges Cellphones with Solar Power

    Nov 13, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    Particle, Optivolt Labs' trailblazing product for the iPhone, is unique from competitors in key ways. The compact system includes two cases--one to protect the phone and an outer case with the battery and solar panel, which utilizes both indoor and outdoor light to triple the life of the phone battery.

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    UIUC researchers to develop new interconnect as important step in enabling quantum networks

    Nov 15, 2021 10:45 am1 views

    In the future, there may be a “quantum Internet” that comprises a network of quantum devices that enable security, privacy, and processing capabilities that are not possible with today’s Internet. It’s just one of the technological triumphs that could eventually be achieved if several scientific challenges are solved. Among them is the development of efficient and robust quantum interconnects, which are the quantum version of the “wires” that serve as the nervous system for electronic devices. These wires would be used to transmit the quantum information that serves as the foundation of these future applications. However, creating good interconnects for quantum systems has proven to be difficult.

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    UIUC faculty sweep 2021 MICRO Test of Time Awards

    Nov 5, 2021 1:00 pm11 views

    The University of Illinois swept the MICRO 2021 Test of Time Awards this year, with UIUC faculty authoring both of two papers that were recognized this year. CSL’s Nam Sung Kim and Rakesh Kumar received the award, presented by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), which “recognizes the most influential papers published in prior sessions of the International Symposium on Microarchitecture, each of whom have had significant impact in the field,” according to the SIGMICRO website. Each year, the award is given to 1-3 influential MICRO papers whose influence is still felt 18-22 years after its initial publication. 

  • Two MatSE Professors Receive NSF CAREER Awards

    May 26, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    Jessica Krogstad and Robert Maass, both assistant professors of materials science and engineering, recently received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awards for their submitted proposals.

  • Two Engineering at Illinois Professors Receive 2012 IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award

    Feb 14, 2013 8:00 am0 views

    Two Illinois professors--Laxmikant Sanjay Kale and Klaus Schulten--have been named the recipients of the 2012 IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award, for outstanding contributions to the development of widely used parallel software for large biomolecular systems simulation.

  • Two ECE Finalists Named for CIMIT Prize

    Jul 30, 2014 8:00 am0 views

    Two ECE-led student teams have been selected among 10 finalists for the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovation Technology's Student Technology Prize for Primary Healthcare.

  • Twidale, Takazawa Speak on Social and Collaborative Information Seeking

    Oct 19, 2015 8:00 am4 views

    Professor Michael Twidale and doctoral candidate Aiko Takazawa spoke on May 14 at the Workshop on Social and Collaborative Information Seeking hosted by the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers University.

  • Twidale Receives Google Support to Study Search Literacy

    Dec 7, 2015 8:00 am0 views

    Google has awarded Wilson (principal investigator) and Twidale (co-PI) $65,000 to pursue "Understanding Search Literacy and Search Skills Adoption: How People Solve Technical Problems via Search."

  • Turk's yt Project Receives NSF Grant to Expand to Multiple Science Domains

    Dec 11, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    The yt project, an open science environment created to address astrophysical questions through analysis and visualization, has been awarded a $1.6 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue developing their software project.

  • Tuning up applications

    Feb 16, 2011 8:00 am0 views

    An Illinois team is helping scientists tune their applications for Blue Waters...

  • Translating Code into Language Learning--and Cozad Victory

    Oct 14, 2015 8:00 am0 views

    FlipWord, a language learning app created by CS grad student Thomas Reese, was the winning project of the 2015 Cozad New Venture Competition in the non-university-funded projects category.

  • Transistor Laser Research Aims to Push Modulation Speeds into THZ Range

    May 27, 2015 8:00 am0 views

    ECE Professor Milton Feng recently received a $657,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) to enhance the modulation speed performance of the transistor laser, a novel 3-terminal device that he and ECE colleague Nick Holonyak Jr. invented in 2004.

  • Transistor and Laser Development to Assist in High-Speed Wireless Communication

    Apr 26, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    In two recent papers, published in the Journal of Applied Physics, Feng--along with Holonyak and graduate researchers Junyi Qiu and Curtis Wang--have established the principles of operation for tunneling modulation of a quantum well transistor laser with current amplification and optical output via intra-cavity photon-assisted tunneling.

  • Trafficturk App to Get a Workout at the Farm Progress Show

    Oct 28, 2013 8:00 am0 views

    Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on behalf of the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), will deploy a new system, TrafficTurk, to study traffic patterns around the Farm Progress Show in Decatur with the goal of giving organizers information that will lead to better traffic management strategies in the years to come.

  • TOYOTA Research Institute Launches Collaboration With Illinois, Other Academic Institutions

    Jan 27, 2021 8:00 pm0 views

    The Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced today that it has selected 13 additional academic institutions to participate in the next five year phase of its collaborative research program. These universities join MIT, Stanford and the University of Michigan which have worked with TRI over the last five years to expand the body of research into artificial intelligence (AI) with the goal of amplifying the human experience.

  • Touch Light Innoations Named CleanTech Open 2016 Participant

    Sep 30, 2016 8:00 am1 views

    Touch Light Innovations, a startup founded by materials science and engineering student Swarnav Pujari, has been selected as a participant in the 2016 Cleantech Open Accelerator Program.

  • Torvik Develops Dataset, Tools for Study of Innovation and Aging

    Aug 31, 2016 8:00 am0 views

    The National Bureau of Economic Research has embarked on a project, Innovation in an Aging Society (IAS). IAS involves experts in economics, information science, and neuroscience, including GSLIS Assistant Professor Vetle Torvik.

  • Torrellas to Receive the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award

    Oct 7, 2015 8:00 am0 views

    CS Professor Josep Torrellas is one of four prominent technologists who received the 2015 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award in June. Torrellas was recognized for his pioneering contributions to shared-memory multiprocessor architectures and thread-level speculation.

  • Torrellas Receives Funding for Phase 2 of a DARPA PERFECT Project

    Sep 10, 2014 8:00 am0 views

    CS Professor Josep Torrellas has received word that funding has been awarded for Phase 2 of a DARPA Power Efficiency Revolution for Embedded Computing Technologies (PERFECT) project that is led by Torrellas.

  • Topological Insulator 'Flips' for Superconductivity

    Jul 23, 2018 8:00 am0 views

    Researchers UIUC and the University of Tokyo, using a new technique, observed the superconducting proximity effect--induced superconductivity in the TI due to its proximity to the SC--and measured its relationship to temperature and the thickness of the TI.

  • Tool to Map Gene's 'Social Network' Sheds Light on Function, Interactions and Drug Efficacy

    Sep 6, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    Illinois computer science professor Jian Peng developed a tool to map a gene's "social network," which could help researchers better understand its function and interactions, and provide insights into human disease and treatment.  

  • Tong Wins NSF-Amazon award to Improve AI Fairness

    Feb 26, 2020 2:45 pm0 views

    Computer science professor Hanghang Tong and a team of researchers recently received an three year award for over $1 million from the National Science Foundation and Amazon. The award is a part of their joint Fairness in Artificial Intelligence program. The initiative supports computational research focused on fairness in AI to ultimately create trustworthy systems that can help tackle society’s biggest challenges.

  • Tiny Swimming Bio-Bots Boldly Go Where No Bot Has Swum Before

    Apr 14, 2014 8:00 am0 views

    Led by Taher Saif, a team of engineers has developed a class of tiny bio-hybrid machines that swim like sperm, the first synthetic structures that can traverse the viscous fluids of biological environments on their own. The team published its work in the journal Nature Communications.

  • Tiny Nanoclusters Could Solve Big Problems for Lithium-Ion Batteries

    Jul 28, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    Illinois professor Prashant Jain's research group found that ultrasmall nanoclusters of copper selenide could make superionic solid electrolytes for next-generation lithium-ion batteries.

  • Tiny Laser Gives Big Boost to High Speed Data Transmission

    Dec 16, 2013 8:00 am0 views

    Professor Milton Feng demonstrated a tiny, fast device along with postdoctoral researcher Fei Tan, graduate students Mong-Kai Wu and Michael Liu, and Nick Holonyak Jr., who is an emeritus professor. The device is a new laser technology developed at the University of Illinois that transmits error-free data over fiber optic networks at a blazing fast 40 gigabits per second – the fastest in the United States. The team published its results in the journal IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.