Research is often described as an active, diligent, and systematic process of inquiry aimed at discovering, interpreting and revising facts. This intellectual investigation produces a greater understanding of events, behaviors, or theories, and makes practical applications through laws and theories. The term research is also used to describe a collection of information about a particular subject, and is usually associated with science and the scientific method.
The word research derives from Middle French (see French language); its literal meaning is 'to investigate thoroughly'.
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AIM Lab - The agricultural instructional media Lab was founded to support instructional computing. Includes information on projects and history.
Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials Program - The ATAM Program was founded as a special interdisciplinary research unit. Now called archaeological science, or archaeometry, it unites archaeology, art history, museology, and the natural and physical sciences. Archaeologists, anthropologists, curators, geologists, chemists, and others work together to analyze the structure, composition, technology, and dating of ancient objects using modern analytical techniques.
Aviation Research Laboratory - Information about the laboratory, operated by the Institute of Aviation, including an overview of the faculty and staff, facilities, research programs. Also includes an index of staff publications and an on-line search of technical reports.
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology - Multidisciplinary research center in biological intelligence, human-computer intelligent interaction, and molecular and electronic nanostructures.
Meta Description: [ The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is an inter- and multidisciplinary research institute devoted to basic
research in the physical sciences, computation, engineering, biology, behavior, and cognition. ]
Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory - The Biomedical Imaging Center provides facilities, equipment and training for research on nuclear magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, for their applications in engineering, neuroscience, speech and hearing science, psychology, biology, medicine, and other fields.
Biotechnology Center - Conducts research with genomics, protein science, transgenic animals, immunology and flow cytometry. Includes list of seminars and services offered to the business sector.
Meta Description: [ The Biotechnology Center offers cost-effective research services to campus and beyond. ]
Bureau of Educational Research - The Bureau of Educational Research fulfills a broad mission of enriching the research culture at the College of Education by supporting interdepartmental or interdisciplinary collaboration; nurturing faculty research, especially for those who are at critical passages in their careers; and providing support for grantwriting and liaisons with funding agencies.
Center For Complex Systems Research - Founded in 1986, the Center for Complex Systems Research studies systems that display adaptive, self-organizing behavior and systems that are usually characterized by a large throughput, such as turbulent flow, lightning, and the flow of information through the internet. Models and techniques drawn from nonlinear dynamics and chaos, neural nets, cellular automata, artificial life, and genetic algorithms are then developed to describe these complex systems. A collection of technical reports and scientific publications of CCSR researchers is available.
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Center for Human Resource Management - An overview of the research center for the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations.
Center for Supercomputing Research and Development - The Center focuses on creating new hardware and software approaches to speed distributed computation. Specific research includes integrating advances in optimizing and parallelizing compilers, new parallel architectures, and parallel algorithms.
Center For Zoonosis Research and Infectious Disease - A center for multidisciplinary research on infectious diseases of animals and humans. Includes background, mission, contact information, and a list of faculty.
CERL Sound Group - The CERL Sound Group is an informal research group that undertakes hardware/software development in digital audio signal processing and computer music. Current research areas include real-time algorithms, sinusoidal modeling, user interface hardware/software for music performance, airflow, and music notation.
Children and Family Research Center - Information about the Center, grant opportunities, and Center research.
Cognitive Science Group - Includes news, fellowships and research topics.
Computational Electronics Group - Information about the National Center for Computational Electronics and the Distributed Center for Advanced Electronics Simulations.
Coordinated Science Laboratory - CSL started as a NASA-supported, multidisciplinary control systems laboratory in the 1950s and has evolved into a world-class electronics research facility and a premier national laboratory in information technology and telecommunications research. Today, interdisciplinary teams research new and innovative computing, communications, signal processing, and control technologies - the infrastructure that makes possible seamless wireless/wireline technology and Internet applications. Design, implementation, interaction, and evaluation issues are investigated at every level: from devices to circuits and systems, and from algorithms to networked architectures and software.
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CSL Communications Group - As part of the Coordinated Science Laboratory's interdisciplinary teams, members of the Communications Group conduct research in the general areas of communication systems and networks, error-control and modulation coding, information theory, and source coding. Specific research topics currently being pursued are Wireless Communication SystemsCommunication NetworksMultidimensional Information and Communication Theory, and Source Coding Techniques
Decision and Control Laboratory - Contains a listing of members, research, seminar information.
Digital Imaging and Media Technology Initiative - The DIMT Initiative was established to examine the potential of providing digital access to the University Library's collections, and to perform research with collections and users to determine the best methods for doing so. The program has recently changed its name to the Digital Imaging and Media Technology Initiative. Its goals are to utilize digital methods to preserve and to make accessible fragile and under-utilized visual resources, promote the use of digital media throughout the campus and scholarly community, and to conduct research that advances the creation and use of these resources.
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Research Center - The IERC is a research laboratory established to provide the scientific community with EPR (also called ESR or EMR), ENDOR, and ESEEM facilities and expertise; to conduct research and development projects centered on multifrequency and high frequency EPR technologies, to determine detailed local structures at radical and metal-ion centers in enzymes, materials and to facilitate communication among scientists worldwide who are interested in EPR techniques welcome and encourage scientists of all disciplines to visit our center and undertake collaborative or other work.
Engineering Psychology and Human Factors Laboratory - Description of baccalaureate program to address the focus of the airline industry on how to make both airplanes and the pilots who fly them safer and more effective.
Meta Description: [ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Institute of Aviation ]
Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory - IlliGAL studies nature's search algorithm of choice, genetics and evolution, as a practical approach to solving difficult problems on a computer. Research at IlliGAL has concentrated on the development of a design theory for selectorecombinative GAs, their competent design and implementation, GAs using selection and recombination that solve hard problems, quickly, reliably, and accurately, and the analysis and design of efficiency enhancement measures through parallelization, time utilization, hybridization, and evaluation relaxation.
Illinois Pulsar-based Optical Interconnect - iPOINT is part of the Optical/Electronics Circuits Group involved in optical ATM networking. For various reasons (header translation, buffering, and fast reconfiguration), ATM networking requires a mix of electronic and optical components. Thus, a Optical/Electronic conversion is needed at some points within the network. iPOINT research investigates the integration of optical components on the same substrate as the transistors and investigates the construction of an input-buffered ATM switch to maximize the throughput of the electronic memory buffers.
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Institute of Communications Research - A program for interdisciplinary education, scholarship, and public service in communication and culture.
Meta Description: [ The Institute of Communications Research is an internationally recognized program
for
interdisciplinary education, scholarship, and public service in
communication and culture. ]
Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics - A national research resource center for biomedical fluorescence spectroscopy. Includes general information, resources, research, theses, published abstracts, staff, consulting, and outreach.
Meta Description: [ A NIH research resource center for biomedical fluorescence spectroscopy at the University of California, Irvine. ]
Laboratory of Immunogenetics - Part of the program in Animal Genomics, the laboratory supports several projects in the fields of Cattle Genomics, Bovine Leukemia Virus and Phylogenomics. Offerings include considerable publication lists and gene mapping resources.
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Language Learning Laboratory - Information about the laboratory, projects, and staff. Also includes news and resources.
Maize Genetics COOP Stock Center - A repository for maize mutants utilized by scientists conducting biological research. Order genetic stocks and obtain information about maize mutants.
Meta Description: [ A repository for maize mutants utilized by scientists conducting biological research. Order genetic stocks and obtain information about maize mutants. ]
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Merriam Laboratory for Analytic Political Research - Resources for formal modelers plus information about the laboratory, programs, activities, faculty, researchers, and meetings.
Mortenson Center for International Library Programs - Provides contacts, history, associates, news items, and a calendar of events.
National Center for Supercomputing Applications - Information about supercomputing and computing applications, as well as information on research the center is conducting.
Meta Description: [ NCSA develops, deploys, and supports cyberinfrastructure to re-engineer the research process ]
Parallel Programming Laboratory - The PPL is part of the Department of COmputer Science. The goal is to develop technology that improves performance of parallel applications while also improving programmer productivity where with a distributed software base, complex irregular and dynamic applications can be developed quickly and perform scalably on machines with thousands of processors. To ensure relevance and long-term impact, we work in the context of real applications.
Physics Research at Illinois - Information about research in the Department of Physics, including links to affiliated research centers.
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Robotics and Automation Laboratory - Part of the College of Engineering, the RAL was established as part of an effort to create interdisciplinary, college wide laboratory facilities. The laboratory is used to study a number of areas including: basic and advanced robotics, dynamics and control, differential geometric methods in nonlinear control, manufacturing systems, analysis of dynamic systems, and project design.
School of Social Work - Research in Progress - An overview of current research projects in the school plus profiles of the researchers.
Signal, Image, and Speech Processing - Faculty, student, and course information plus an overview of research topics.
Meta Description: [ The Signal and Image Processing Group conducts research on a full spectrum of topics, ranging from the mathematicaltheory of signal and image processing to the design of algorithms and architectures for implementing the processing. ]
The Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory - FS-MRL is an interdisciplinary research laboratory focused on fundamental issues in materials science. The primary goals of the programs are to develop fundamental research programs in the areas of materials science, condensed matter physics, and materials chemistry, to educate scientists and engineers at the PhD and Post-doctoral levels with skills in those areas, and to transfer science and technology developed to other DOE National Laboratories and to US industry via research collaborations, mutually supportive interactions, and continuing education.
The Kolb-Proust Archive for Research - The Archive is a project of the Library devoted to the study of the French author Marcel Proust and his time. It seeks to demonstrate the utility of Internet distribution of research documents in the humanities, and the possibility of carrying out original research at a distance.
The Real-Time Systems Laboratory - Established more than 20 years ago, the RTSL has been pioneering the area of real-time computing. The Real-Time Systems Laboratory performs research on all aspects of real-time computing systems. A real-time system must not only produce logically correct results, but it must also produce them with certain timing constraints. Such systems are gaining importance in a number of applications, for example, automated factories, telecommunication systems, defense systems, and space systems, and smart spaces.
UIUC Digital Library Testbed - Reports, presentations, publications and information from the project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
University Research Portal - University portal to the Research Administration, Initiatives of various Colleges and Departments, facilities, documents, programs, surveys and available resources and services. Includes a search engine.
Meta Description: [ A guide to the multiple opportunities for research
at the University of Illinois. ]
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