Bilgic Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
Mustafa Bilgic, assistant professor of computer science, has received a five-year, $549,863 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for “Active Learning through Rich and Transparent...
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Computer Science in Winter 2014 College of Science Newsletter
The Winter 2014 issue of Science @ IIT, the newsletter of the College of Science, contains articles on the launch of the Master of Data Science program and a $50,000 donation by the Tsao family to...
How Twitter Knows You're Obese
County Health Statistics, Including Rates of Obesity, Can Be Estimated By Looking at Tweets, Says Illinois Institute of Technology Researcher March 26, 2014 CHICAGO – A researcher at Illinois...
Computer Science Student Participates in Illinois Cyber Aces State Championship
Three students from IIT, including Master of Computer Science graduate student Mitch Wilkos, participated recently in Illinois's first Cyber Aces State Championship. The event was held on March 1 at...
Computer Science Student is Founder of One of America's Coolest College Startups 2014
Computer Science undergraduate student Nishanth Samala's company Strados has been named one of America's Coolest College Startups 2014. The list was compiled by Inc., which publishes a magazine...
Xian-He Sun Appointed Distinguished Professor
Xian-He Sun, chair and professor of the Computer Science Department, has been awarded the title of distinguished professor for exceptional achievement in his field. The title of distinguished...
Shlomo Argamon, Professor of Computer Science, spoke about the reasons why it isn’t likely that the inventor of Bitcoin is Satoshi Nakamoto, to LA Weekly
In an LA Weekly Blog post, Language Doesn't Point to L.A.'s Satoshi Nakamoto as Bitcoin Inventor, Shlomo Argamon, Professor of Computer Science, says that stylistic inconsistencies between the...
Hochsprung Endows Computer Science Chair
Chicago native and retired Apple Distinguished Engineer Ron Hochsprung (CS ’72) has established the first endowed chair in computer science at IIT with a gift of $2 million. This is the fifteenth...
Sun Introduces New Mathematical Model for Supercomputing
Xian-He Sun, computer science chair and professor, has introduced a new mathematical model for supercomputing that could greatly reduce the current data access delay and increase speed by up to 100...
Alumnus Victor Tsao (M.S. CS ’81), Co-Founder of Linksys, Establishes Computer Science Student Fund
A generous gift of $50,000 from the Tsao Family will help IIT computer science students with their studies. The Tsao Family Foundation Discretionary Fund for Computer Science will support students in...