Welcome to Illinois Computes

This is a site for the Illinois Computes consortium dedicated to broadening participation in computing.  The site is still young, with substantive content appearing gradually.

The main activity currently being undertaken by the consortium is to arrange visits to a large number of Chicagoland high schools to

• break stereotypes about what kind of people pursue computing careers
• inform students about the wide variety of interesting computing applications and career opportunities
• inform students about the strong employment opportunities for computing professionals
• provide pathways for students to pursue computing careers

Please help us connect with appropriate high school contacts.

This project has recently received funding from the National Science Foundation under grant CNS-0837769. Founding members of the consortium are

• Loyola University Chicago
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and
• Illinois Institute of Technology.

Resources are gradually being inserted into the site. In the mean time, further information is available through the Principal Investigators:

Loyola University Chicago

Dr. Ronald Greenberg rig@cs.luc.edu

University of Illinois at Chicago

Dr. Dale Reed (reed AT uic.edu)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Samuel Kamin (kamin AT cs.uiuc.edu)

Illinois Institute of Technology

Dr. Cynthia Hood (hood AT iit.edu)