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 …
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Celebration of Life Held for CS Emeritus Professor Olvi Mangasarian
On Saturday, October 30, 2021, family and friends celebrated the life of Computer Sciences Emeritus Professor Olvi Mangasarian (1934-2020). The service was recorded and is available here, including tributes by Leon Mangasarian (his son), CS …
New associate professor Yudong Chen joins UW-Madison CS in statistical and theoretical machine learning
Yudong Chen comes to UW-Madison Computer Sciences from a faculty position in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University. He is researching and teaching in the area of machine learning, statistics, …
Cheesehacks Hackathon Participants Build Apps to Address Real-World Issues, Eat A Lot of Cheese
by Elea Levin Over 100 students participated in the first ever CheeseHacks hackathon event October 23 and 24, hosted by the UW-Madison Google Developers Student Club and UW Web Dev Club. The Hackathon aimed to …
Over 100 students participate in first UW-Madison Datathon
By Elea Levin One hundred and three participants competed in the first ever UW-Madison Datathon on October 16 and 17, hosted by the UW-Madison Data Science Club. In addition to the hackathon, the event included …
A New Age of Technology: CDIS Researchers Find Ways to Improve Our Daily Lives
CS undergrad Atulya Reddy designs app to repair connections torn by pandemic
Reddy felt that one of the side effects of the pandemic was the absence of vital social learning that happens with in-person classes. They wanted to set themselves up for a productive academic year, where …
UW-Madison Game Design Certificate Focuses on Creating Positive
By Elea Levin Have you played a game on your phone today? Maybe you participated in a rec or club sports game over the weekend? Did you have a Monopoly night with your roommates last …
CS alum Matt Amodio (MS ’17) wins 38 games of Jeopardy
Matt Amodio was recently eliminated from the game of Jeopardy, but not before he set the second longest all-time win streak in the show’s history.
Assistant Professor Josiah Hanna comes to UW-Madison Computer Sciences to focus on machine learning and robotics
Josiah Hanna comes to UW-Madison from earning his PhD at the University of Texas-Austin. Hanna works at the intersection of machine learning and robotics, focusing on reinforcement learning (RL). RL “allows computers and robots to …