Coordinated Science Laboratory

{{Infobox laboratory

| name = Coordinated Science Laboratory

| established = 1951

| research_field = Computing, Communications, Signal processing, and Control

| director = Klara Nahrstedt

| address = 1308 West Main Street

| city = Urbana

| state = Illinois

| country = U.S.

| coordinates = {{coord|40.1149|-88.2267|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}

| affiliations = University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

| website = [http://csl.illinois.edu csl.illinois.edu]

}}

The Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) is a major scientific research laboratory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. With deep roots in information technology, CSL has invented and deployed many landmark innovations, such as the electric vacuum gyroscope, the first computer-assisted instructional program and the plasma TV. Today, research thrusts include computer vision, economics and energy systems, information trust, neuroengineering, parallel computing, robotics and more.

History

Established in 1951 as a classified defense laboratory, the Coordinated Science Laboratory (or CSL) was originally designed to be a center for research in [https://web.archive.org/web/20110807192531/http://www.csl.illinois.edu/research-groups/remote-sensing-and-space-science remote sensing and space sciences], [https://web.archive.org/web/20110807192554/http://www.csl.illinois.edu/research-groups/signal-processing signal, image and speech processing] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20110807192650/http://www.csl.illinois.edu/research-groups/thin-film-electronics thin film electronics].

Faculty and funding

Research at CSL is conducted by more than 100 faculty members spanning 11 departments in the university. The lab also employs more than 500 graduate and undergraduate students.

CSL is funded by many federal, state and private programs. It receives the majority of its operating and research budget from DARPA, the National Science Foundation, NASA, and from private corporations. Corporate funders have included AT&T, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lucent, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Sun Microsystems.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}}

Major centers and institutes within CSL

[http://www.adsc.illinois.edu Advanced Digital Sciences Center]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20150525035018/http://publish.illinois.edu/exascale-plasma/ Center for Exascale Simulation of Plasma-Coupled Combustion]
[http://compgen.illinois.edu CompGen]
[http://healtheng.illinois.edu Health Care Engineering Systems Center]
[http://www.iti.illinois.edu Information Trust Institute]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110807191850/http://www.csl.illinois.edu/ethics-center National Center for Professional and Research Ethics]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110423154206/http://www.csl.illinois.edu/institutes/parallel-computing-institute Parallel Computing Institute]
[http://www.sonic-center.org/ Systems on Nanoscale Information fabriCs (SONIC)]

Notable research contributions

Electric vacuum gyroscope (the central component of inertial navigation systems, primarily used by submarines)
Portable radar systems
PLATO (the first computer-based education system)
Flat panel plasma displays
Deuterium Method for processing microchips (extends the life of microchips by 10 to 50 times normal length)
Quantum wire lasers
Quantum dots

External links

[http://www.csl.illinois.edu/ Coordinated Science Laboratory]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110317212655/http://www.csl.illinois.edu/decision/history History of the Decision and Control Laboratory], a research group within CSL

Category:University and college laboratories in the United States

Category:University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign centers and institutes