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 …
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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 …
Department joins forces with gener8tor to boost student entrepreneurship
By Jennifer Smith Nationally-ranked accelerator gener8tor is partnering with the UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) to bring its gALPHA program to the UW-Madison campus. The program, “gALPHA+CS,” will pull talent and industry …