Institute Partners with Industry Leaders to Deliver Advanced Cyberinfrastructure and Digital Services CHICAGO, Aug.

A partnership of 17 institutions last week announced a new project that allows researchers open access to the power of supercomputers, advanced computational tools and digital resources and services directly from their desktops.

Overall Enrollment Up for First Time in Six Years WASHINGTON, March 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The number of undergraduate students majoring in computer science significantly increased for the first time since the dot com boom according to the Computing Research Association (CRA).

To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Jennifer LaMontagne, Department of Computer Science of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, +1-217-333-4049, jsandone@uiuc.edu University of Illinois Teams with Microsoft and Intel on Parallel Computing Research Center URBANA, Ill., March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign today announced a joint research endeavor with Microsoft Corporation and Intel Corporation that aims to enable commodity systems to make use of parallel computing techniques previously relegated to the realm of supercomputers.

REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Daniel A. Reed will join Microsoft Research as director of Scalable and Multicore Computing, reporting to Senior Vice President of Research Rick Rashid.