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A Legacy of Excellence
Our history, from the ILLIAC to Blue Waters, OpenMP to MPI, Mosaic to YouTube, and the first vectorizing compilers to LLVM, shapes the present and future of computing.
Our faculty, students, and alumni lead innovation in teaching research and entrepreneurship. They have founded or led companies at the forefront of innovation, from C3.ai, Malwarebytes, Match.com, Microsoft, Netscape, Optimizely, PayPal, YouTube, and Yelp.