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Miron Livny honored with Vilas Research Professorship

CS Professor Miron Livny receives Vilas honor – read all about it below! Immigration scholar, scientific computing leader receive Vilas honors

How to Tell If a Photo Is an AI-Generated Fake

Computer Sciences Professor Yong Jae Lee is featured in a recent Scientific American article: “Artificial-intelligence-powered image-generating systems are making fake photographs so hard to detect that we need AI to catch them.” Lee says he and his research team are working on a way to train a machine-learning model to “recognize what makes an image …

Alumni spotlight on Mary Ann Horton, MS ’77

By Karen Barrett-Wilt Mary Ann Horton came to UW–Madison from southern California. She says, “It was worth the cold winters to study with elite faculty in my field.” Read below about her career, her experiences at UW, and her work as a transgender activist! What are you currently doing professionally? I spent 20 years at …

Construction on CDIS building starts the first week of March!

Construction will begin on the new School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS) building during the first week of March! You can follow along with a webcam that gives a bird’s-eye view of the project here. And more information about the building is here. Stay tuned for more updates as construction progresses!

Computer Sciences claims top two spots in the list of UW’s fastest growing majors

Data Science (Statistics Dept – Computer Sciences joint degree) and the Computer Sciences undergraduate degree program are the fastest growing degrees on campus. Read more below! UW’s 5 hottest majors: Student demand, workforce trends drive enrollment gains

CS’s Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

CS Professor Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, along with five other UW–Madison faculty members, was honored as a 2023 American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow. Read about it in the UW–Madison story below: Madison researchers join ranks of AAAS fellows

Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) Facilitation Innovations

After adding Research Computing Facilitators in 2013-2014, CHTC has expanded its reach to support researchers in all disciplines interested in using large-scale computing to support their research through the shared computing capacity offered by the CHTC. “What’s unique at the CHTC is having a dedicated role – that we’re not just ‘user support’ responding to …

CS alum Archit Gupta (MS ’08) creates tax and financial gamechanger in India

Gupta discusses his time in the UW–Madison CS MS program (“UW–Madison has a great computer sciences program and fantastic faculty”) and what he thinks it takes a successful entrepreneur: Archit Gupta creates tax and financial tech gamechanger in India

CS’s Loris D’Antoni: Saying “grazie” to a mentor

Read all about D’Antoni below – the ongoing value and influence of his undergraduate advisor at the University of Torino, Mariangiola Dezani, and her teaching style, how he feels about pasta, and his variety of Twitter posts: Saying ‘grazie’ to a mentor

Fall 2022 Commencement

Congratulations, graduates! Click here for CS graduation information! Questions? Click on the link above for advisor email addresses.