College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
HTCondor Week is an annual event for people from academia, industry, and government who utilize the Center for High Throughput Computing resources to enhance their research. Over 100 people from around the globe attend, as well as faculty, staff, and grad students from UW–Madison. The public is invited to attend two lectures on Tuesday, May …
As the Department of Computer Sciences grows, so does the need for community building among the department’s graduate students. Their offices are spread out—some aren’t even in the computer sciences building—and they don’t have many opportunities to hear about each other’s research, especially between areas of study. The UW student chapter of the Association for …
By Maeve Ryan Christos Tzamos, who joined the Department of Computer Sciences faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the fall of 2018, plans to continue research from his postdoctoral studies concerning Mechanism Design, Algorithms, and Machine Learning. Tzamos comes to UW from a post-doc at Microsoft Research New England. He grew up in Athens, …
Happy Spring everyone! A mini programming contest is being organized by SACM which will be hosted on Codeforces. The event will take place on Friday April 19 from 5pm to 7pm. Participants will physically gather at room 1240 to take part in this contest. Participating in the contest might provide you a refresher for your …
The Midwest ML Symposium aims to convene regional machine learning researchers for stimulating discussions and debates, to foster cross-institutional collaboration, and to showcase the collective talent of ML researchers at all career stages. [past events] When: June 6-7, 2019 Where: Memorial Union@UW–Madison [map it] Contact: For any questions or concerns, please write to midwestml2019@gmail.com Registration: May 6th is the early …
Get to know the work of your fellow grad students and peers! WACM and SACM are planning a UW–Madison Dept. of Computer Sciences symposium to facilitate connections and conversations between members of the UW–Madison CS community. Graduate students and advanced undergrads are invited to present and show their work through short talks and/or poster sessions. The time of …
By Maeve Ryan It’s UW–Madison Commencement Day, 1965. Badgers stand proud in their graduation garb, eager to receive diplomas. Among them, one woman stands out in her gown and nun’s habit: Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, the first person in the US to earn a PhD in computer science.* Keller was a trailblazer in higher education. …
Paul Barford and Stephen Wright, along with their collaborators, have been awarded the Test of Time Paper Award for 2019 by IEEE INFOCOM. “Power Awareness in Network Design and Routing,” by Joseph Chabarek, Joel Sommers, Paul Barford, Cristian Estan, David Tsiang, and Stephen Wright, was published in 2008 in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM. “I know …
All Computer Sciences students! We are excited to announce the first CS t-shirt contest! What: Let your creative juices flow, CSers! We’re looking for a design that represents the students of this department – that you might want to wear to a fun day at an internship or just around campus.
Alonso Del Rio (BS, ’20) was a participant in the first Scratch Club at Shorewood Elementary School in Madison when he was in fifth grade. Now a UW–Madison Computer Science major, he’s teaching students in the same Scratch program at his elementary school. Scratch is a free programming language whose purpose is to introduce children …