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Overview of the Department
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is recognized throughout the world as a leader in both education and research. The department and its graduates have long been at the forefront of modern computing beginning with the creation of ILLIAC in 1952, and continuing with the creation of Mosaic, the first graphic web browser, and through the most recent Internet and electronic commerce era. We are now on the threshold of new implicit computing that will change computing as profoundly as did each of the earlier eras. Illinois is leading the way in these research discoveries and its students and alumni will be the leaders of this new era -- continuing a proud tradition of excellence and innovation. The prime focus within our department is education. Students in the top-five ranked undergraduate and graduate programs continue to be of the highest caliber, with the most competitive admission requirements at the University. We have about 900 undergraduate students, and 440 graduate enrolled on-campus and in our online programs. These students are ready to invent the future and to redefine computing for the 21st century. Our students are among the most highly recruited on campus and are prized by companies worldwide. As befitting a world-class department at a major research university, the department has a long and rich history of computing research. The faculty has designed and built the world's fastest computers, made distributed collaboration possible, co-founded the field of computer arithmetic and explored the operating system and processor architecture models that underlie modern computer systems. Current research into areas such as smart spaces, multimedia operating system, vision and robotics, and computer security will be no less influential. Extending beyond its doors, computing pervades the campus with a rich array of interdisciplinary work in its research centers, the latest in both library and user technologies, and extensive computer laboratories.
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