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The School of Information Sciences, also The iSchool at Illinois, is an undergraduate and graduate school at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. Its Master of Science in Library and Information Science is currently accredited in full good standing by the American Library Association. The school is a charter member of the iSchool ...
The director of the institute is Vernon Burton, professor of history, African American studies, and sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.He is also the associate director for humanities and social sciences and senior research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
[1] [2] NCSA operates as a unit of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, [3] and provides high-performance computing resources to researchers across the country. Support for NCSA comes from the National Science Foundation, [1] [4] [5] [6] the state of Illinois, [2] the University of Illinois, business and industry partners, [7] and other ...
The LEEP program provides students who are not able to relocate to the Urbana-Champaign area a means to attend the university's ALA-accredited Master of Library and Information Science, Master of Information Science or Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) program. The program, and the iSchool overall, is ranked #1 by U.S. News & World Report.
Linda C. Smith holds a PhD in information transfer from Syracuse University," [4] MS in information and computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, MS in library science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and BS in physics and mathematics from Allegheny College.
Given this explosion in research in computing, in 1964, the University of Illinois reorganized the Digital Computer Laboratory into the Department of Computer Science, and by 1967, the department awarded its first PhD and master's degrees in Computer Science. In 1982, UIUC physicist Larry Smarr wrote a blistering critique of America's ...
Blue Waters was a petascale supercomputer operated by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.On August 8, 2007, the National Science Board approved a resolution which authorized the National Science Foundation to fund "the acquisition and deployment of the world's most powerful leadership-class supercomputer."
The Illinois Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) is home to several large-scale research programs, including a NSF-funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, the Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology center, the BP-supported International Centre for Advanced Materials, several large DOE-funded efforts, as well as a ...