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Richard Blahut [64] – former chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, best known for his Blahut–Arimoto algorithm used in rate–distortion theory; winner of IEEE Claude E. Shannon Award in 2005 and the recipient of IEEE Third Millennium Medal
Alumni of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This includes those who attended the university at the Urbana–Champaign campus when named Illinois University (1885–1981) and Illinois University at Urbana–Champaign (1982–present). See Category:Illinois Industrial University alumni for those who attended during the years 1867–1884.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni (17 C, 1,009 P) Pages in category "University of Illinois alumni" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 806 total.
As of 2019, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni, faculty, and researchers include 24 Nobel laureates (including 11 alumni). In particular, John Bardeen is the only person to have won two Nobel prizes in physics, having done so in 1956 and 1972 while on faculty at the university.
In 2017, alumni Larry and Beth Gies donated US$150M to the school, which was renamed the Gies College of Business in their honor. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] In 2020, alumnus Don Edwards donated US$10 million [ 17 ] [ 18 ] and the business school also further received a pledge in 2020 for $2.5 million for construction of shared instructional facility.
Byron O. House 1926 – Chief Justice Supreme Court of Illinois [1] Lloyd A. Karmeier 1964 – Chief Justice Supreme Court of Illinois [2] Ray Klingbiel 1924 – Chief Justice Supreme Court of Illinois [3] Howard C. Ryan – Chief Justice Supreme Court of Illinois [4] Roy Solfisburg 1940 (LL.B) – Chief Justice Supreme Court of Illinois [5]
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni (17 C, 1,009 P) Illinois Fighting Illini athletic directors (12 P) C. Illinois Fighting Illini coaches (13 C, 1 P) F.
In 1982, UIUC physicist Larry Smarr wrote a blistering critique of America's supercomputing resources, [10] and as a result the National Science Foundation established the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in 1985. NCSA was one of the first places in industry or academia to develop software for the 3 major operating systems at the ...