College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
“One day you’re doing some small assignments in your dorm, and the next you’re at Google and can build an entire web search engine on your machine if you want to,” says Shivaram. “It was a huge jump!
A team consisting of Jordan Henkel (CS graduate student), Shuvendu Lahiri (from Microsoft Research), Ben Liblit, and Tom Reps (both CS faculty) has just won CodRep. CodRep is an international competition on machine learning on source code organized by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Henkel will travel to KTH in Stockholm …
The regional round of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest was held last week. UW–Madison participated with 8 teams (listed below). We placed 3rd, 4th, 5th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 25th, and 31st among the 209 teams in our region. The problem set and scoreboard are available on-line. Only the top team of the region is guaranteed a slot in …
Professors Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau from the UW–Madison Computer Sciences Department won the 2018 Mark Weiser Award for “outstanding leadership, innovation, and impact in storage and computer systems research.” They are the first professors to win this award from the University of Wisconsin. Andrea and Remzi, a married couple who work closely together in …
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 transforming the way people live and do business. This finding and others come from a computer science working group that …
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 several other such patterns, known as teleconnections, and believe that there are many more to be discovered. The new TRIPODS+Climate …
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 by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Oregon. The study, presented here today (July 16, 2018) …
“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 a distinguished paper at that conference. This paper examines the effect that overfitting and influence have on the ability of …
From the Microsoft AI Blog: The Project Brainwave preview includes the ability for customers to do ultra-fast image recognition for applications such as the one Jabil is piloting, and it lets people do AI-based computations in real time, instead of batching it into smaller groups of separate computations. It works on TensorFlow, one of the most …
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 by the Ash of Vesuvius, These Scrolls Are Being Read for the First Time in Millennia” on Smithsonian.com. “I’m continuing …