The mission of the Computation Institute (CI) is to address the most challenging problems arising in the use of strategic computation and communications across a broad spectrum of intellectual activities. We believe that this will lay the groundwork for significant advances in the biological, physical, social, and financial sciences, medicine, law, the arts, and the humanities.

The Computation Institute, a joint project of Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, has grown out of our long tradition of association between the two institutions, beginning in the early 1940s and expanding to distributed collaborative efforts such as the 1996-1997 Resource Center for Computational Science.