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Sheldon Jacobson says the T.S.A. is being held hostage as security lines snake out of terminals

The New York Times ($)

Siebel School In the Media
April 2, 2026

Bo Li, CS professor and Virtue AI co-founder, named Innovator of the Year

SC Awards

Siebel School In the Media
April 1, 2026

AI research is getting harder to separate from geopolitics: Nan Jiang on NeurIPS policy

Wired

Siebel School In the Media
March 30, 2026

Craig Zilles: Blue books are not the answer to AI

Inside Higher Ed

Siebel School In the Media
March 27, 2026

Koustuv Saha asks if we are prepared for a world where AI isn’t at work?

Fulcrum

Siebel School In the Media
March 26, 2026

Josep Torrellas: AI Is Making Your Laptop More Helpful—And Way More Complicated. Here’s How.

Forbes

Siebel School In the Media
March 25, 2026

Jiawei Han and ChengXiang Zhai: building AI memory, Microsoft PlugMem paper

Microsoft Research Blog

Siebel School In the Media
March 11, 2026

Illinois joins forces with leading universities to launch innovation hub in San Francisco

Technology Entrepreneur Center

Siebel School News
March 11, 2026

Sheldon Jacobson answers: is there a mathematical method to March Madness?

Illinois News Bureau

Siebel School News
March 11, 2026

News Notes

- 4/2/2026
  CS professor Sharifa Sultana, CS Ph.D. student A.T.M Mizanur Rahman and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed received an Honorable Mention Award for Data Repair at ACM CHI 2026. The work stood out for its originality, rigor, and potential impact on the field of human-computer interaction. The contribution of the work is in showing that current AI systems embed global assumptions that do not align with local needs.
- 4/2/2026
  CS assistant professor Minjia Zhang's group received a Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention) at ASPLOS 2026 for SuperOffload: Unleashing the Power of Large-Scale LLM Training on Superchips by CS Ph.D. student Xinyu Lian, Masahiro Tanaka, Olatunji Ruwase and Minjia Zhang.
- 4/2/2026
  United States Patent no. 12,561,555 "System and method for analyzing network of tensor time series" invented by CS professor Hanghang Tong, CS Ph.D. student Baoyu Jing, Yada Zhu, Jinjun Xiong, Nitin Gaur and Anna Topol and assigned to IBM and The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois for invention P202009336. This significant milestone achievement is a testament to the team's dedication, ingenuity, and expertise, propelling technology forward. To explore the full patent, visit the United States Patent and Trademark Office website and search (upper left) for "12561555."