ShareThis closes $15M Series B funding
July 9, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
University of Illinois spinoff company, ShareThis, recently closed on a $15M Series B funding deal. Draper Fisher Jurvetson lead the deal.
Copper nanowires grown by new process create long-lasting displays
July 9, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
A new low-temperature, catalyst-free technique for growing copper nanowires has been developed by researchers at Illinois. The copper nanowires could serve as interconnects in electronic device fabrication and as electron emitters in a television-like, very thin flat-panel display known as a field-emission display. Read more
NVIDIA names UIUC first CUDA Center of Excellence
July 9, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
SANTA CLARA, CA & URBANA, IL—JUNE 30, 2008—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual computing technologies, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) today announced that UIUC has been named as the world’s first CUDA Center of Excellence. In addition to the appointment, NVIDIA has donated $500,000 to UIUC for the development of parallel computing facilities and the continuation of its research programs. Read more
BP announces $500M energy research program
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A $500 million research program announced by the energy company BP will bring farm bioenergy production to Illinois on a grand scale, say researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Illinois will join the University of California at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in forming the new Energy Biosciences Institute, with UC Berkeley taking the lead.
Illinois Researchers Create Secure Web Browser
July 8, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
When CS alumnus and Microsoft researcher Shuo Chen returned to campus to discuss his work to find web browser bugs that were very hard to research, computer science professor Sam King and his research team, PhD students Shuo Tang and Chris Grier, found inspiration.
“The question that stuck out was: why were these bugs there to begin with,” said King. “When we started thinking, we realized that current web browsers are fundamentally flawed.” Read more
