NCSA teams up with U.S. Army to devise smart Web crawling system

By Erika Strebel

The surface Web is a vast ocean of millions of pages. People search the surface Web every day by putting keywords into search engines like Google or Yahoo! Search.  But when an Army trainer needs to quickly find information to put together a training session, a simple keyword search isn’t always the most efficient way to navigate the surface Web. Read more

U. of I., Singapore establishing information technology center

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, or A*STAR, a Singapore government agency that oversees 22 research institutes, consortia and centers, are establishing a major research center in Singapore. The Advanced Digital Sciences Center will be focused on breakthrough innovations in information technology that are expected to have a major impact in transforming human beings’ utilization of information technology. Read more

Illinois transfers powerful new building blocks for organic synthesis to Sigma-Aldrich for commercialization

The University of Illinois announces today a licensing agreement with Sigma-Aldrich that will enable worldwide commercial access to a collection of powerful new building blocks for organic synthesis. Read more