Computer Sciences Dept
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Formed in 1964, we consistently rank in the top ten computer science departments in the U.S. Our faculty, staff, and students have established a tremendous learning environment. We invite you to learn more about us here and in our brochure.
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CS HIGHLIGHTS 2009-10
NEWS
Condor Center for High-Throughput Computing enables mapping of corn genome by a team including UW-Madison genomicist David Schwartz.
Judy Faulkner (Founder and CEO of Epic Systems) gives the CS Distinguished Alumni Lecture (Thursday, Oct 15, 4:00pm), which inaugurates the newly remodeled 1240 CS lecture hall.
CS Job Fair took place on 5 Nov 2009.
ALUMNI
Shubu Mukherjee (Ph.D. 1998) receives 2009 ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award
Judy Faulkner (Founder and CEO, Epic Systems) appointed to U. S. Health Information Technology Policy Committee
Gamma Parallel Database Team wins 2008 ACM Software System Award.
Carol Bartz (B.S. with Honors '71) joins Yahoo! as CEO.
Tevfik Kosar (Ph.D. 2005) receives NSF CAREER Award.
Doug Burger (Ph.D. 1998) named as an ACM Distinguished Scientist for 2008.
Our '07-'08 PhD Graduates
Peter Spiro (M.S. '85) receives Microsoft Technical Achievement Award
Nick Rasmussen (B.S. '01) receives Academy Award for Science & Engr.
Olga Holtz (Post-Doc '00-'02) receives European Math Society (EMS) Prize
Sarita Adve (PhD '93) receives 2008 ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award
Vasant Honavar (PhD '90) receives Iowa Board of Regents Faculty Excellence Award
STUDENTS
UW team "Wrong Answer" places first in NCNA Region of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, and advances to the world finals in Harbin, China (Feb, 2010).
Fatemah Panahi wins AAUW Selected Professions Fellowship for 2009-2010.
Brandon Smith wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and Bill Harris receives honorable mention.
David He, Chris Hopman, and Mikola Lysenko placed equal 49th in the World Finals of the 2009 International Collegiate Programming Contest in Stockholm.
Theo Benson and Vivek Shrivastava awarded 2009 IBM Ph.D. Fellowships
Shravan Rayanchu awarded a 2009 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship
Our '08-'09 Ph.D. candidates
Holly Esquivel awarded a 2008 NDSEG Graduate Fellowship
Junghee Lim one of two awarded 2008 Symantec Graduate Fellowship
David Hoffert awarded 2008 UW-Madison Herfurth-Kubly Award
Cindy Rubio González awarded 2008-09 AAUW International Doctoral Fellowship
Andrew Goldberg awarded 2008 Yahoo! Key Technical Challenges Grant
Andrew Hanson awarded 2008 DeWitt Scholarship
Anne Mulhern awarded Second Place in PLDI '08 SRC
Gogul Balakrishnan receives 2008 CS Graduate Research Award
Allison Holloway awarded 2008 Anthony Klug NCR Fellowship
Jeff Kinne awarded 2008 Cisco Systems Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
Further student awards and honors
FACULTY
Landweber and Solomon and collaborator Michael Litzkow receive the Internet Society's Postel Award for their CSNET project.
Landweber gave the commencement lecture at CUNY Brooklyn College and received an honorary Doctor of Science degree.
Hill receives 2009 ACM SIGARCH Distinguished Service Award
Sankaralingam and Zhang receive 2009 NSF CAREER Awards
Bilge Mutlu, Christopher Re, and Ben Recht to join CS faculty in Fall 2009.
de Boor, Parter, Robinson, and Wahba named in the inaugural class of SIAM Fellows.
DeWitt, Naughton, and the other members of the Gamma Parallel Database Team win 2008 ACM Software System Award.
Miller awarded UW-Madison 2009 Vilas Associate
Chawla awarded 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
Sohi elected to National Academy of Engineering
Robinson elected to National Academy of Engineering
DeWitt awarded 2009 IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
Ramakrishnan selected for 2008 ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award
DeWitt to lead new Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab
Akella, Banerjee and Swift receive 2008 NSF CAREER Awards
Sohi awarded E. David Cronon Professor of Computer Science
Ramakrishnan awarded 2008 IEEE Fellow
Cai awarded Fellow of the AAAS
DeWitt awarded 2008 SACM Professor of the Year
Further faculty awards & honors
BEST PAPER AWARDS
Asim Kadav , Mahesh Balakrishnan, Vijayan Prabhakaran, and Dalhia Malkhi awarded Best Paper of ACM Hot Storage 2009, October, 2009.
Vivek Shrivastava , Nabeel Ahmed, Shravan Rayanchu,Suman Banerjee , Srinivasan Keshav, Konstantina Papagiannaki, and Arunesh Mishra awarded Best Paper of ACM MobiCom, September, 2009.
Saumitra Das, Konstantina Papagiannaki, Suman Banerjee, Y. C. Tay awarded recognition for one of the top three papers of ACM CoNEXT, December 2009.
Michael J. Brim and Bart Miller awarded Best Paper in 16th Annual International Conference on High Performance Computing, December, 2009.
L. N. Bairavasundaram, S. Sundararaman, A. C. Arpaci-Dusseau, R. H. Arpaci-Dusseau awarded Best Paper in USENIX '09.
N. Agrawal, A. C. Arpaci-Dusseau, R. H. Arpaci-Dusseau awarded Best Paper in FAST '09.
A. Gupta, P. Kuppili, A. Akella, and P. Barford awarded Best Paper in COMSNETS '09
Mangasarian awarded Best Paper of 2007 in Computational Optimization and Applications
Mangasarian and Wild awarded Best Academic Research Paper, 4th Int'l. Conf. on Data Mining (DMIN'08)
Gokhale, Sen, Chebrolu, and Raman awarded one of three fast track to ACM Trans. on Networking, Infocom 2008
Junghee Lim and Thomas Reps awarded EAPLS Best Paper, ETAPS '08
Bairavasundaram, Goodson, Schroeder, A. Arpaci-Dusseau and R. Arpaci-Dusseau awarded Best Student Paper, FAST 2008
Bobba, Moore, Volos, Yen, Hill, Swift, and Wood awarded IEEE Micro's Top Picks from the Computer Architecture Conferences of 2007
 
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