Kaist Professor Moon Song-cheon, who proposed the concept of "cloud," will receive the "2026 Proud Illinoisan Award."
The University of Illinois Korean Alumni Association said on the 15th, "Professor Moon first presented the concept of 'CLOUD' in 1982 while in the Ph.D. program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), laying the foundation of modern computing," and "we also recognized his contributions to IT volunteer work in some 30 countries."
Professor Moon integrated core concepts such as object-oriented, ubiquitous, and distributed processing to propose 'CLOUD,' an acronym for 'CLass·Object·Ubiquitous·Distributed.'
Professor Moon has served as a professor at Kaist, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Edinburgh, among others, and has been a leading scholar in cybersecurity and databases.
The award ceremony will take place on the 16th at the UIUC Korean Alumni Association's New Year's gathering at The Riverside Hotel in Seoul.