This year, the College of Engineering at Illinois list of faculty award recipients includes four CSL faculty members: Tim Bretl, Lui Sha, Sayan Mitra, and Wen-Mei Hwu. Read more.

CSL Professor Tarek Abdelzaher is leading a group of researchers, including ITI Director David Nicol, in studying how information propagates through social media and the effects that information has on people’s beliefs as it moves. Read more.

CSL Professor Petros Voulgaris has received a three-year collaborative grant from the National Science Foundation. Read more.

CSL Professor Lav Varshney and his team studied tweeting behavior in urban communities, finding there is less tweeting per capita in larger cities. Read more.

Even before Amazon boldly announced plans to enter the world of healthcare, researchers at Illinois, including CSL Professor and HCESC Director Kesh Kesavadas, have already been working on the technology that will make it all work. Read more.

CSL Professor Wen-Mei W Hwu, AMD Jerry Sanders Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recently elected the IEEE Technical Committee on Microprogramming and Microarchitecture (TCuARCH) Chair. Read more.

The 13th CSL Student Conference starts today and runs through Friday! Highlights include:

• The plenary talk from Eric Horvitz, director of Microsoft Research Labs.
• Four keynote talks by Allen Tannenbaum (SUNY Stony Brook), Vivienne Sze (MIT), Avrim Blum (TTIC), and Esteban Real (Google Brain).
• The job fair with reps from top companies.
• Free registration and meals included. 

The 2018 Engineering Open House is coming up March 9-10. We will have several exhibits at the CSL Studio, open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday and 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturday.