October 2, 2018 By John Lucas The University of Wisconsin–Madison should create a new school to house expanded efforts in computing and data analysis to help students and Wisconsin workers take advantage of a field that is …
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Multi-university collaboration will use data science to find the next El Nino
The El Nino and La Nina patterns in the Pacific Ocean are notorious for their long-distance effects on weather as far away as Africa and the Midwestern United States. But climate experts also know of …
Study suggests buried internet infrastructure at risk as sea levels rise
Article by Terry Devitt, University Communications Thousands of miles of buried fiber optic cable in densely populated coastal regions of the United States may soon be inundated by rising seas, according to a new study …
Somesh Jha earns IEEE CSF distinguished paper award
“Privacy Risk in Machine Learning: Analyzing the Connection to Overfitting,” a paper by Somesh Jha and his colleagues, will be presented at the 31st IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium July 9-12 at Oxford and has been chosen as …
CS alum Brent Seales makes seeing the unseeable possible in charred Herculaneum scrolls
Revealing contents of 2,000-year-old papyrus from Herculaneum charred by Vesuvius’s eruption UW alum Brent Seales, Director of the Center for Visualization & Virtual Environments at the University of Kentucky, is featured in the article “Buried …
Mark Hill named Chair of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC)
UW-Madison Computer Sciences’s Professor Mark D. Hill has been named Chair of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), whose mission is to catalyze the computing research community and enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research. “It is an …
Latino Youth Summit CS workshop: “Hello, world!”
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 …
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. …