College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
As UW–Madison continues to gain recognition for fueling Wisconsin’s high-tech economy, four experienced entrepreneurs with UW roots shared the cardinal lessons they learned.
HTCondor Week is an annual event for people from academia, industry, and government who utilize the Center for High Throughput Computing resources to enhance their research. Over 100 people from around the globe attend, as well as faculty, staff, and grad students from UW–Madison. The public is invited to attend two lectures on Tuesday, May …
As the Department of Computer Sciences grows, so does the need for community building among the department’s graduate students. Their offices are spread out—some aren’t even in the computer sciences building—and they don’t have many opportunities to hear about each other’s research, especially between areas of study. The UW student chapter of the Association for …
By Maeve Ryan Christos Tzamos, who joined the Department of Computer Sciences faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the fall of 2018, plans to continue research from his postdoctoral studies concerning Mechanism Design, Algorithms, and Machine Learning. Tzamos comes to UW from a post-doc at Microsoft Research New England. He grew up in Athens, …
The Midwest ML Symposium aims to convene regional machine learning researchers for stimulating discussions and debates, to foster cross-institutional collaboration, and to showcase the collective talent of ML researchers at all career stages. [past events] When: June 6-7, 2019 Where: Memorial Union@UW–Madison [map it] Contact: For any questions or concerns, please write to midwestml2019@gmail.com Registration: May 6th is the early …
By Maeve Ryan It’s UW–Madison Commencement Day, 1965. Badgers stand proud in their graduation garb, eager to receive diplomas. Among them, one woman stands out in her gown and nun’s habit: Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, the first person in the US to earn a PhD in computer science.* Keller was a trailblazer in higher education. …
Paul Barford and Stephen Wright, along with their collaborators, have been awarded the Test of Time Paper Award for 2019 by IEEE INFOCOM. “Power Awareness in Network Design and Routing,” by Joseph Chabarek, Joel Sommers, Paul Barford, Cristian Estan, David Tsiang, and Stephen Wright, was published in 2008 in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM. “I know …
Alonso Del Rio (BS, ’20) was a participant in the first Scratch Club at Shorewood Elementary School in Madison when he was in fifth grade. Now a UW–Madison Computer Science major, he’s teaching students in the same Scratch program at his elementary school. Scratch is a free programming language whose purpose is to introduce children …
Adalbert Gerald is a PhD student in Computer Sciences and Education, with a focus on making computer science education accessible and relevant to everyone. He has taught a variety of computer sciences classes, including programming classes on modern C++, Python, Java, and machine organization and programming. He has also taught Intro to Operating Systems and …
By Maeve Ryan Justin Hsu, who joined the faculty in the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Department of Computer Sciences in the fall of 2018, says that he’s researching programming languages and differential privacy, that is, “what it means for an algorithm to preserve privacy in a mathematical, formal sense that you can prove and reason about,” …