Meenakshi Syamkumar stands in front of about 20 middle-school students who are participating in the Latino Youth Summit session “Intro to App Building,” while Caroline Hardin walks around the room. The two are graduate students …
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University of Wisconsin-Madison awarded grant to reinvent computing
Most people exhibit the patience of a two-year-old when it comes to apps loading on our smartphones or information retrieval on our computers. We post on social media, collect fitness information, and keep hundreds or …
Patel’s DataChat wins Governor’s Business Plan Contest information technology award
Prof. Jignesh Patel’s spinoff DataChat won the information technology award at the 15th annual Governor’s Business Plan Contest this week. The contest was organized by the Wisconsin Technology Council and sponsored by a wide range of …
Congratulations to CS Chair Gurindar Sohi!
Professor Gurindar Sohi was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences this spring – a high honor that places him in the ranks of Martin Luther King, Jr., Albert Einstein and Barack Obama. …
Squashing the bugs in machine learning: Researchers make computer-trained models more trustworthy
By Jennifer Smith While debugging is part and parcel of software development, it has remained an afterthought in the world of machine learning, says Jerry Zhu, who holds the Sheldon B. and Marianne S. Lubar …
Yingyu Liang joins machine learning faculty
By Jennifer Smith Yingyu Liang, a new faculty member in machine learning in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Computer Sciences, enjoys bringing his disparate interests together. In his free time, he enjoys hobbies …
Theo Rekatsinas joins database faculty, employs data for major societal impact
By Jennifer Smith “All of the breakthroughs that look like science fiction to us—artificial intelligence, self-driving cars, automated assistants, natural language recognition—are powered by data,” says assistant professor Theo Rekatsinas, who joined the Computer Sciences …
Working on a galaxy far, far away: alum Rachel Rose lands a dream job
By Jennifer Smith [Story by Katie Vaughn, UW-Madison College of Letters & Science] As a child, Rachel Rose wore clothes emblazoned with C-3PO and drifted off to sleep on Star Warssheets. And while the adventures of …
Alum LeBlanc, George Washington University’s newest president, applies CS education to administrative career
By Jennifer Smith “Badger blood doesn’t go away, even though we haven’t lived in Madison in a very long time. My wife and I still think of ourselves as Badgers,” says Thomas J. LeBlanc …
In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Larry Travis
Submitted by Jennifer Smith on Mon, 09/25/2017 – 10:51am Larry Travis, 1929-2017 (written by Sven Travis, son of Larry Travis) We celebrate the life of Larry Travis, who passed away on August 14 of complications from recent …