While the field of computer science has experienced substantial growth in the last decade, women, genderqueer, and non-binary students continue to be underrepresented in the major, including at UW-Madison. To increase their representation in the …
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Students Learn From Each Other at Computer Sciences Research Symposium
By Elea Levin The UW-Madison Association for Computing Machinery student chapter (SACM) and Women’s Association for Computing Machinery (WACM) hosted an in-person and virtual research symposium on April 1. The event had a large turnout, …
Computer Sciences Capstone course: “I’ve never felt so proud of something I’ve made in class before”
by Elea Levin Most classes require students to take a final exam or turn in a final paper at the end of the semester for professors to evaluate their work. In Computer Science 638, the …
UPL Hackathon Brought Students Together With the Theme “Help Your Community”
By Elea Levin This spring about 70 students divided into 30 teams participated in the 2022 “Hatathon,” a hat-themed, 24-hour hackathon event hosted by the UW-Madison Undergraduate Projects Lab (UPL). The UPL is a space …
Aws Albarghouthi wins Class of 1955 Teaching Excellence Award
By Elea Levin Aws Albarghouthi, an associate professor in the Computer Sciences Department, is being awarded the Class of 1955 Teaching Excellence Award. The award was created to honor professors who have had a prominent …
Earlence Fernandes awarded National Science Foundation CAREER Award
By Elea Levin Earlence Fernandes, an assistant professor in the UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department, was awarded the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award for his research on Security and Privacy Foundations of Internet-Scale User-Centered Automation. The …
Suman Banerjee Chosen as IEEE Fellow
By Elea Levin Computer Sciences Professor Suman Banerjee became an Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Fellow effective January 1, 2022. The title, which is one of the most prestigious honors of the IEEE, was …
AAAS Honors UW-Madison Computer Sciences Faculty Members Mark D. Hill, Somesh Jha, and Jignesh Patel as Lifetime AAAS Fellows
Madison, WI and Washington, D.C. — The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected three faculty from the …
UW-Madison Team Continues Record 20-Year Streak in ICPC World Finals
After 18 months full of unprecedented hurdles, the UW-Madison team finished 17th out of 117 teams at the International Collegiate Programming Contest world finals in Moscow. They also ranked fourth out of the 15 North …