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By John Mak Before 1988, a study involving tens of thousands of pieces of data would have been a scientist’s life’s work. Years spent meticulously measuring, tabulating, and hypothesizing would mean that only the most groundbreaking hypotheses could afford to be researched. Then, in 1988, UW–Madison revealed and launched Condor. Condor (now HTCondor) is a …

Xiangyao Yu comes to the Department of Computer Sciences at UW–Madison from his position as Visiting Researcher at Google Madison. Previously he was a post-doctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research interests are in both databases systems and computer architecture, and he says that “enabling faster and more efficient database systems …

Sharon Li has been named to Forbes 30 under 30-Science for her work in deep learning, specifically applied to image recognition problems. (Visit Sharon’s complete Forbes profile.) She is excited about the prospect of joining the UW–Madison Computer Sciences department in the fall of 2020, after completing her postdoc at Stanford University. Forbes honorees are …

The University of Wisconsin–Madison has established a School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS) in the College of Letters & Science to strengthen research and education on campus, prepare tech-savvy graduates to fill new kinds of jobs, support a wave of Wisconsin entrepreneurs and partner with industry to provide them with the competitive advantage …