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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

The Mathematics of Impossible Fairness: the Illinois Breakthroughs that Defined the Boundaries

Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering

Siebel School News
March 10, 2026

How artificial intelligence is changing the way doctors predict skin cancer

The Grainger College of Engineering

Siebel School News
March 10, 2026

News Notes

- 3/26/2026
  IMMERSE Symposium 2026 on April 28-29
  
  The IMMERSE Symposium — combining immersive technologies, applications and human experience — is a unique meeting of leaders from academia and industry to foster collaborations and build community for research, education and infrastructure to enable the era of immersive computing (including AR, VR, MR). The program features exciting plenary keynotes and panels, followed by breakouts and interactive posters and demo sessions. Register by April 10. If you work in this area, submit a poster/demo by April 5.
  
  April 28–29, 8 am • I Hotel & Conference Center and NCSA.
  
  Questions can be addressed to immerse@illinois.edu.
- 3/25/2026
  Siebel School’s faculty and graduate students will make a big showing at the 2026 ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. “This year was a record year for the interactive computing research area for papers accepted,” says Tal August, CS assistant professor. Five papers received best paper or honorable mention among the 30 projects accepted, which included more than 20 papers plus workshops and posters. The conference, considered the leader for international conferences on human-computer interaction, takes place April 13-17, 2026 in Barcelona, Spain.