Welcome to the CS home page. 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.
Highlights
Documentation
Professor Paul Barford and team are mapping the Internet: their Internet Atlas...
Professors Barford and Arpaci-Dusseau are teaching the next generation of CS students about the world of software startup companies. Read more...
Ben Recht, with his coauthor Emmanuel Candes, were awarded the Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization for their paper
"Exact...
Interim Chancellor David Ward and his grandson learned about Computer Science and created an interactive game in Scratch during Grandparents...
University of Wisconsin researchers, including CS's Miron Livny, played an important role...
[May 26, 2012] Human-computer interaction research on adaptive educational interfaces by Professor...
This week's report (March 5th, 2012) on...
The Themis project (Patel) was covered by...
The Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory offered three sessions of a major in...
Undergraduate students Tom Duffield, Nathalie Cheng, and Jamie McMahon won this year’s Hirsch Family Award with a project they developed in...
Highlights
-
NSF funds a UW sustainability project that explores the role of human mediation in improving energy efficiency of buildings. This is a multi-disciplinary project...
[more] -
The Airshark technology from the WiNGS lab (Prof. Suman Banerjee and student Ashish Patro) won second prize in the Interdigital Innovation Challenge.
[more] -
-
CS faculty member Suman Banerjee participates in the White House-led US Ignite launch to fuel next generation of Internet applications.
[more] -
Professor Karthikeyan (Karu) Sankaralingam received the 2012 IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) Young Investigato...
[more] -
Emeritus CS faculty member and former department head Larry Landweber has been included in the ...
[more] -
Voice of America featured a radio inte...
[more] -
Dr. Sarita Adve--Wisconsin Ph.D. alumna and current Illinois professor--has been named a 2012 "Woman of Vision" by the Anita Borg Institute (...
[more] -
Our department had two papers in the list of just 20 papers selected to represent the most influential papers in the history of The International ACM Symposium o...
[more]
-
UW Alumni Insider interviewed MS'82 Alumnus Pavan Nigam on high-tech entrepreneurship in the Silicon Valley.
[more] -
Alumnus and UIUC professor Sarita Adve has been named a "Woman of Vision" by the...
[more] -
Jack Minker (Math MS '50) receives the 2011 Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientis...
[more] -
Three of our PhD Alumni, Thomas Ball (adviser Susan Horwitz), Shubu Mukherjee (adviser Mark Hill), and Divesh Srivastava (adviser Raghu Ramakrishnan), were named...
[more] -
Akash Lal (Ph.D. 2009) co-recipient of the ACM SIGPLAN Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award...
[more] -
Andreas Moshovos (Ph.D. 1998) receives the ...
[more] -
Haryadi Gunawi (Ph.D. 2009) receives Honorable Mention in the ...
[more] -
Shubu Mukherjee (Ph.D. 1998) receives2009 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.
-
Ashish Patro won the first prize at the ACM Student Research Competition at ACM MobiCom 2011 with his novel work on locating non-WiFi interferers using sta...
[more] -
CS graduate student Madhu Ramanathan wins a 2011 Google Anita Boarg Memorial Scholarship.
-
Alex Diedrich awarded 2010 DeWitt Scholarship
-
Ashok Anand wins the 2010...[more]
-
Bill Harris wins 2010 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship.
-
Tom Duffield, Nathalie Cheng, and Jamie McMahon (adviser: Prof Bilge Mutlu) win the 2009 UW-Madison Hirsch Family Award...[more]
-
UW team "Wrong Answer" places first in NCNA Region of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, and advances to...
[more] -
Fatemah Panahi wins AAUW Selected Professions Fellowship for 2009-2010.
-
Brandon Smith wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and...[more]
-
David He, Chris Hopman, and Mikola Lysenko placed equal 49th in the World Finals of the 2009 International Collegi...[more]
-
-
Professor Karthikeyan (Karu) Sankaralingam received the 2012 IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) Young Investigato...
[more] -
Emeritus CS faculty member and former department head Larry Landweber has been included in the ...
[more] -
Voice of America featured a radio inte...
[more] -
A project led by Professors Bilge Mutlu & Michael Gleicher was featured in NSF's...
[more] -
Professor Ben Recht received the 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowsh...
[more] -
Professors Michael Gleicher (Computer Graphics) and Jignesh Patel...
[more] -
-
Professor Guri Sohi has been awarded the Eckert Mauchly Award from the IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery for his pioneering work on micro-architectural techniques in...
[more] -
Assistant Professor Ben Snyder has received an Honorable Mention in the ACM 2010 Doctoral Dissertation awards.
[more]
-
Qi Ding, Natallia Katenka, Paul Barford, Eric Kolaczyk and Mark Crovella received the Best Paper and Best...
[more] -
CS and ECE collaboration receives Best Paper Award at the 2012 (ECML-PKDD).
[more] -
Our department had two papers in the list of just 20 papers selected to represent the most influential papers in the history of The International ACM Symposium o...
[more] -
Steve Wright, Mario Figueiredo, and Rob Nowak won the 2011 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper award for their paper "Sparse Reconstruction by Separable Approximation," which appeared in ...
[more] -
-
...
[more] -
...
[more] -
Tyler Harter, Chris Dragga, Michael Vaughn, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau...
[more] -
Nathan Rosenblum, Barton Miller, and Jerry Zhu...
[more] -
Jonathan Mumm and Bilge Mutlu received the "Most Interesting Experimental Fi...
[more]
Upcoming
-
Thu, 05/02/2013 - 4:00pm - 5:00pmComputer Sciences 1240
-
Tue, 05/07/2013 - 2:30pm - 3:45pmUnit III first-floor elevator lobby

