“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 …
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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. …
Squashing the bugs in machine learning: Researchers make computer-trained models more trustworthy
By Jennifer Smith While debugging is part and parcel of software development, it has remained an afterthought in the world of machine learning, says Jerry Zhu, who holds the Sheldon B. and Marianne S. Lubar …
Yingyu Liang joins machine learning faculty
By Jennifer Smith Yingyu Liang, a new faculty member in machine learning in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Computer Sciences, enjoys bringing his disparate interests together. In his free time, he enjoys hobbies …
Theo Rekatsinas joins database faculty, employs data for major societal impact
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 …