Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science

The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign was established in 2005 to conduct research at the intersection of high performance computing and humanities, arts, and social science. I-CHASS is hosted by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)National Center for Supercomputing Applications: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu and maintains strategic partnerships with NCSA, the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (GLCPC), and the Illinois Informatics Institute (I3).Illinois Informatics Institute: http://www.informatics.uiuc.edu

Directors The director of the institute is Vernon Burton, professor of history, African American studies, and sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is also the associate director for humanities and social sciences and senior research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

The executive director is Kevin Franklin, senior research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Projects The institute sponsors a number of digital projects.

References

External links I-CHASS website: http://chass.uiuc.edu NCSA website: http://ncsa.uiuc.edu