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• Donation rescued computer science

  When computer science grew explosively in the 1990s, emergency needs arose locally for computer education at the University of Illinois. An intensive fundraising campaign came to the rescue. IT billionaire and alumnus Thomas Siebel donated USD 32 million to the construction of the world-famous Siebel Center.

• Freedom for researchers behind the success

  Several educational programmes at the University of Illinois are ranked in the top ten in the USA. The university has also nurtured many of the world’s leading profiles within the IT industry. One explanation for the success of KTH’s new partner is that we have succeeded in combining the best from the private and the public universities’ different worlds.