College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
When Pat Hanrahan presented his talk “Shading Languages and the Emergence of Programmable Graphic Systems” on Wednesday, October 12, 2022, there was no need for his ground-breaking Renderman Interface to digitally create a crowd. The Computer Sciences lecture hall was at capacity, and a second room was set up for people to watch via Zoom. …
The featured robot is only one of many that are part of the research in the laboratory, which is focused on enabling effective and intuitive interactions between people and robotic technologies and facilitating the successful integration of these technologies into human environments.
Modern academic research runs on computational power—and in today’s research labs, central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) are critical pieces in a scientist’s workbench. So with funding secured through the WARF investment, CHTC began executing a major hardware refresh this summer, adding 207 new servers representing over 40,000 “batch slots” of computing …
Rishab Goyal joins the UW–Madison Computer Sciences faculty from a postdoc position at MIT. He will teach and research in the areas of cryptography and computer security, and his main research question is, “How can advanced cryptography secure emerging applications in light of growing privacy concerns due to rapid scientific and technological innovation?” Goyal’s work …
One of Rajput’s projects focused on building AI-powered recommendation systems – like what Netflix, YouTube, or other media sites use – that rely on transformer networks. Transformer networks tell the recommendation system what part of the input to focus on, such as whether it should pay more attention to the most recent movies you’ve watched. …
Five students from Makerere University in Uganda and the University Of Sciences, Techniques, and Technologies of Bamako in Mali, Africa, participated as a part of The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the African Centers for Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Science (ACE) partnership program. This event was not the first …
Kirthevasan (Kirthi) Kandasamy comes to UW–Madison from a postodoc at UC-Berkeley. He will research and teach about machine learning, which he says he happened on accidentally, and he’s never looked back! Kansdasamy works more specifically on using game theory to help competitors share data when they might not be inclined to do so but it …
Patrick McDaniel comes to UW–Madison after 18 years as a professor at Pennsylvania State University. He earned his PhD at University of Michigan and worked in startups after that. McDaniel first visited Madison 20 years ago and “fell in love with it.” The Wisconsin Idea is central to his work: “meeting people where they live …
What do you get when you combine the wonderment of childhood with the experience of a lifetime? Magic, and that’s what Grandparents University is all about. For the first time since the pandemic began, grandparents and their grandchildren came together on the UW–Madison campus this summer for two days of fun, adventure and learning in …
The UW–Madison International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) team continued its streak with its 21st advancement to the world finals. At the North America Championship, the top 50 teams from the US and Canada vied for slots in the world finals to be held in Egypt some time in 2023. For the 21st year in a row, …