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Beloved News: UIUC establishing a School of Computing and Data Science

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more Siebel money, named after him

https://grainger.illinois.edu/news/stories/66263

Brandon Schrock of Laredo, Texas, told the federal government that his employer was “poop,” and his occupation was “pooper.”

Those were the days: UIUC gets its second Cray supercomputer

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 25, 2024, 21:42:43, in reply to "Beloved News: UIUC establishing a School of Computing and Data Science"

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The center, established in February, 1985, with a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation, is the university`s supercomputer use and research institute. It has been used by thousands of researchers in engineering, the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, fine arts and other fields.

``There is no other university in the world that can match the computing environment that we have at the U. of I.,`` said Allen, who pointed out that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology does not have a supercomputer.

Illinois has one of five supercomputer centers in the nation. The others are at Princeton, Cornell, the University of California at San Diego and Pittsburgh.

"For the regulated community, a FONSI represents happy days."

I’m surprised we didn’t already have one

Posted by IlliniSax05 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=IlliniSax05' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 25, 2024, 20:25:13, in reply to "Beloved News: UIUC establishing a School of Computing and Data Science"

Why do you hate me, Sammich?

MAJOR UPDATE: "Maybe you're not such a bad egg, Lisle-y"
-Sammich, 1/15/2011

it was called Dept of Computer Science, for one

Posted by Potomac <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Potomac' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 25, 2024, 20:48:32, in reply to "I’m surprised we didn’t already have one"

Also within the College of Engineering. The announcement was a little fuzzy whether this new thing is a subset of the CS Dept or a parallel group. I assume it's a chunk within CS, as that is a very large department now, much larger than in my day.

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Of course we did*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 25, 2024, 20:29:08, in reply to "I’m surprised we didn’t already have one"

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"For the regulated community, a FONSI represents happy days."

With it being housed in Grainger, will they fold Math-CS into Grainger? Is there still a split

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 25, 2024, 20:24:33, in reply to "Beloved News: UIUC establishing a School of Computing and Data Science"

between Math-CS and Eng-CS?

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more Siebel money, named after him

https://grainger.illinois.edu/news/stories/66263

"For the regulated community, a FONSI represents happy days."

the school has additional CS-related degrees now, too*

Posted by Potomac <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Potomac' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 25, 2024, 20:50:28, in reply to "With it being housed in Grainger, will they fold Math-CS into Grainger? Is there still a split"

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between Math-CS and Eng-CS?

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more Siebel money, named after him

https://grainger.illinois.edu/news/stories/66263

So is this part of the 100 million he pledged about 15 years ago, or new money? *

Posted by larue33 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=larue33' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 25, 2024, 16:55:06, in reply to "Beloved News: UIUC establishing a School of Computing and Data Science"

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more Siebel money, named after him

https://grainger.illinois.edu/news/stories/66263

I thought his last donation was for the CS building *

Posted by biclops <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=biclops' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 25, 2024, 17:12:37, in reply to "So is this part of the 100 million he pledged about 15 years ago, or new money? *"

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more Siebel money, named after him

https://grainger.illinois.edu/news/stories/66263

Hey mister you don't wanna walk on water
Cause you're only gonna walk all over me

He gave 30 some million for a building, then announced the 100 million pledge

Posted by larue33 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=larue33' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 25, 2024, 19:45:13, in reply to "I thought his last donation was for the CS building *"

I think in 2007, to be spent over roughly the next 20 years. Then they announced 25 million for the design center, presumably part of the 100. I expect this is also, but it's not clear.

NERDS!

Posted by ibdoc <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ibdoc' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 25, 2024, 16:41:43, in reply to "Beloved News: UIUC establishing a School of Computing and Data Science"

But very rich nerds

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more Siebel money, named after him

https://grainger.illinois.edu/news/stories/66263

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