By Elea Levin There is no such thing as a typical week in Computer Sciences 202: Computer Science Principles, taught through the UW-Madison Summer Collegiate Experience (SCE) program. From speakers to labs to opportunities for …
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Jin-Yi Cai awarded prestigious Gödel Prize
Professor Jin-Yi Cai of the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been jointly awarded the prestigious Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science. The award is sponsored by the European Association for …
Alex Peseckis, Computer Sciences & Linguistics
Year in school: Sophomore Hometown: Ottawa Hills, Ohio What made you decide to double major in these two areas and how do they work together? I originally decided to major in Computer Science because I …
Michelle Tan, Computer Sciences & Data Science
Year in school: Sophomore Hometown: Wuhan, China What made you decide to double major in these two areas and how do they work together? I decided to double major because both fields interest me greatly, …
Incoming faculty member Ming Liu awarded SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award honorable mention
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 …
UW-Madison Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) focuses on developing technology at the intersection of computers and humanity
By Nicole Herzog Imagine a world where workers have the ability to avoid life-threatening situations: A vulnerable human aerospace manufacturer once had to stand beneath the wing of a colossal aircraft, and now a life-sized …
CS Day of the Badger results – thank you to all participants!
The Computer Sciences Department finished the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 2021 Day of the Badger fundraising effort on April 7 with 132 individual donations for a total of $29.5K – over three times more donors and …
CS Grad Students achieve success in Three Minute Thesis Competition
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 …
Assistant Professor Yingyu Liang presented with prestigious NSF Career Award
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 …
Virtual CS Research Symposium, October 30
You can join the research symposium any time today – it runs online until 5pm. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87066196141?pwd=MWpjQlNUWUxrZGVTUUlYN28zN0tiUT09 Schedule: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lr5oN7YjpiRqXoXbGuouhyoMqSmOUpwkgYHNpCs7eTo/edit#gid=930339023