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Formed in 1963, 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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Today's events and seminars

11:00a	Database Seminar 4310 CS Pravin Sheshadri, Microsoft
4:00p	Computer Architecture Seminar 1221 CS Mark D. Hill, University of Wisconsin-Madison
4:00p	Networking Seminar 2310 CS David Plonka, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Calendar

Of interest to undergraduates
Undergraduate Projects Lab, an environment for undergraduates to work on creative projects of their own devising.

Donor appreciation
We gratefully acknowledge the generous contributions we receive each month from companies, alumni & other friends.

Computer Science Building,
Main Entrance

Industrial affiliates program
This is the forum for active exchange between your organization and the Computer Sciences Department, for mutual benefit. Read more about how to become involved.

CS HIGHLIGHTS 2008-09

HIGH THROUGHPUT COMPUTING

Red Hat will add CHTC grid technologies to Red Hat Linux Enterprise MRG

ALUMNI

	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 ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award
	Vasant Honavar (PhD '90) receives Iowa Board of Regents Faculty Excellence Award
	Our '06-'07 PhD Graduates

Further alumni awards & honors

STUDENTS

Our '07-'08 Ph.D. candidates

Holly Esquivel awarded an NDSEG Fellowship for 2008

Junghee Lim one of two awarded 2008 Symantec Graduate Fellowship

David Hoffert awarded 2008 UW-Madison Herfurth-Kubly Award

Arnold and Bobba awarded 2007 Intel Ph.D. Fellowships

Cindy Rubio González awarded 2008-09 AAUW International Doctoral Fellowship

Andrew Goldberg awarded 2008 Yahoo! Key Technical Challenges Grant

Vladimir Brik awarded 2007 Dept. of Homeland Security Fellowship

Andrew Hanson awarded 2008 DeWitt Scholarship

Marc de Kruijf won Second Place in IBM Cell/BE Challenge '07

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

Malec, Malinowski & Wang placed 1st out of 207 teams in 2007 ACM NCNA Programming Contest, advance to world finals in Banff

Shravan Rayanchu awarded First Place in Mobicom '07 SRC

Further student awards and honors

FACULTY

	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 UW-Madison 2008 Vilas Associate
	Cai awarded Fellow of the AAAS
	DeWitt awarded 2008 SACM Professor of the Year
Further faculty awards & honors

BEST PAPER AWARDS

	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 andThomas 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
	Michael Marty and Mark Hill awarded IEEE Micro's Top Picks from the Computer Architecture Conferences of 2007
	Christodorescu, Kruegel, and Jha awarded ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper, ESEC/FSE 2007
	Jin-Yi Cai and Pinyan Lu awarded Best ICALP Paper, ICALP 2007
	Plonka, Gupta, and Carder awarded Best Paper, LISA '07
Further best paper awards

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