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CS professor Miron Livny & HTCondor celebrate 40 years powered by community
The brainchild of Miron Livny, director of the Center for High-Throughput Computing, HTCondor uses a vast network of computing resources to power a wide range of research projects across the globe.
Jin-Yi Cai awarded WARF Named Professorship
Professor Jin-Yi Cai was named the Juris Hartmanis Professor of Computer Sciences in honor of his late PhD advisor, “a father of complexity theory.”
Translating Legacy Code for a Safer Future: DARPA Backs Effort to Convert C to Rust
A team of researchers from Madison, Berkeley, Edinburgh, and Urbana-Champaign has received a $5 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under its Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR) program.
PhD student Seth Ockerman awarded prestigious NSF grad fellowship
By Karen Barrett-Wilt Computer Sciences PhD student Seth Ockerman has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP), which is a highly competitive program that provides funding and support for graduate students …
Patrick McDaniel co-editor of new ACM journal on AI security and privacy
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is pleased to announce a new journal, ACM Transactions on AI Security and Privacy (TAISAP), with UW-Madison Computer Sciences professor Patrick McDaniel as an editor-in-chief. As AI technologies have become …
Computer Sciences capstone prepares to scale experiential learning for students
Students are drawn in droves by the promise of real-world experience and—for a lucky few—the possibility of a job at the end. Interest is also growing among industry, for whom the capstone course offers access to top talent.
Celebrating Computer Sciences’ PhD students
At the PhD graduation ceremony on May 9, 23 CS students walked across the stage toward their futures, finally becoming alumni after (on average) five to seven years of rigorous research and study.
PhD student Shawn Im awarded prestigious NSF graduate fellowship
Computer Sciences PhD student Shawn Im has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP), which is a highly competitive program that provides funding and support for graduate students.
Computer Sciences professor Ming Liu’s Netlab Research Group’s in-house distributed file system ranked 26th by IO500
UW-Madison’s Netlab Research Group, housed in the Computer Sciences department, has had their in-house distributed file system ranked 26th in the 10-node category and 33rd overall, an impressive achievement for an academic group with more limited resources than corporations.