CS majors Fall 2023
811%Percentage of growth in number of Comp Sci undergrads in the last 10 years
$128KAverage starting salary for graduates of the Professional Master’s Program
CS News
Professor Karu Sankaralingam and alumnus Doug Burger PhD’98 among those distinguished with 2024 ISCA Influential Paper Award
The distinction honors the impact of the TRIPS architecture, “one of the most complex microprocessor prototypes ever built in academia.”
The Hidden Cost of AI
Artificial intelligence offers an enticing array of benefits — but it also requires a growing supply of electricity.
Sophie Stephenson PhDx’25 researches privacy concerns of TikTok “Sharenting”
Stephenson’s advisor, Assistant Professor in Computer Sciences Rahul Chatterjee, says that her work represents a shift in the field towards a more human-centered approach to cybersecurity.
UW–Madison Awarded Prestigious National Center of Academic Excellence for Cyber Research Designation
The designation recognizes the quality of the Doctoral Program in Computer Sciences and opens the door to greater resources and opportunities for research collaboration in cybersecurity.
Events
- September
- September 10
- September 10
- September 11Statistics Seminar Identifying Socially Disruptive Policies by Eric Auerbach4:00 PM, 133 Service Memorial Institute
- September 13Machine Learning Lunch MeetingA bi-metric framework for fast similarity search12:30 PM, 1221 Computer Sciences
- September 13Geospatial Data Science Seminar with Dr. Krzysztof JanowiczGeoMachina: What Designing Artificial GIS Analysts Teaches Us About Place Representation3:30 PM, 180 Science Hall
Good news provided by CS faculty:
(gathered by former Chair Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau)
April 22, 2024:
- Once again, Prof Dieter van Melkebeek has led the University of Wisconsin to great heights in the 46th ICPC finals, including an incredible 8th place finish overall (2nd highest US school, behind only MIT). [1]
- Prof Mike Swift was named a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor. [2]
- Prof Rahul Chatterjee was awarded a Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment Grant for his proposal “Supporting Survivors of Technology-Facilitated Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Wisconsin”. [3]
- Finally, let us once again congratulate our Chair Steve Wright for being awarded the prestigious Hilldale Professorship. [4]