Human-Computer Interaction focuses on technology to improve daily lives
Researchers at UW–Madison’s School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences have been working on “human-computer interaction” in attempts to greatly improve our daily lives.
College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
Researchers at UW–Madison’s School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences have been working on “human-computer interaction” in attempts to greatly improve our daily lives.
Incoming faculty member Ming Liu was awarded honorable mention for the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in Computer Networking and Data Communication from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Data Communications. Liu was recognized for “identifying and enabling novel uses of programmable network devices in data centers, including …
Wildfires have been causing recent damage to cellphone towers, and researchers have been tasked with finding site-specific, long-lasting solutions.
By Elea Levin While most students have to wait for an internship to get hands-on experience working with a company in their field, a group of undergraduates had the opportunity to gain this real world experience through one of their UW–Madison Computer Sciences classes. The Computer Sciences Department launched a new Capstone course this fall …
by Elea Levin Computer Science graduate students Daniel Rakita and Andrew Schoen earned finalist and semifinalist ranks, respectively, in UW–Madison’s 2021-21 Three Minute Thesis competition. Over 60 graduate students participate in the competition this year from a wide variety of departments. Three Minute Thesis is an international competition in which graduate students are given three …
UW–Madison Computer Sciences Assistant Professor Yingyu Liang has been awarded a prestigious NSF Career Award. The award is for “better understanding, robustness, and efficiency of deep learning.” Liang will be developing new theoretical models of properties of practical data and providing frameworks for proving performance guarantees, including for learning in the presence of adversarial attacks or limited …
By Elea Levin The regional round of the International Collegiate Programming Contest was held remotely on February 27 after being pushed back from November due to Covid-19. Ninety teams from the region competed in the five hour long competition, including four teams from UW–Madison. The UW–Madison teams took 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 35th place, with …
By Karen Barrett-Wilt A multi-university team led by Somesh Jha at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has won a prestigious US Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Award. Seven universities comprise the group: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Carnegie Mellon University, University of California San Diego, Penn State, University of Melbourne, Macquarie University, and University of …
Read the Capital Times story about Dr. Tyler Caraza-Harter’s “Data Science in Madison” class, including City of Madison projects such as water usage and bus routes.
By Elea Levin On January 21 at 6 a.m.,125 people across the country and the world put their heads down and dove into three full days of coding. They were participating in BadgerHacks, a hackathon organized by three UW–Madison Computer Sciences freshmen and entirely run by UW–Madison students with the support of their advisor, Dr. …