College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
The UW–Madison International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) team continued its streak with its 21st advancement to the world finals. At the North America Championship, the top 50 teams from the US and Canada vied for slots in the world finals to be held in Egypt some time in 2023. For the 21st year in a row, …
Most undergraduate students know that connecting with other students in your major is important for getting help on big assignments, swapping career advice, and even celebrating after an exam. These benefits are part of why Computer Sciences major Carla Rose decided to start a chapter of the national organization ColorStack at UW–Madison. ColorStack aims to …
On June 25, 2021, Arizona astrophysicist Feryal Ozel posted an item on Twitter that must have fired up scientific imaginations. She noted that the Open Science Pool (OSPool) just set a single-day record of capacity delivered — churning through more than 1.1 million core hours. Her team’s project was leading the surge. “Can you tell something is …
By Elea Levin The UW–Madison Association for Computing Machinery student chapter (SACM) and Women’s Association for Computing Machinery (WACM) hosted an in-person and virtual research symposium on April 1. The event had a large turnout, with about 50 students participating in person, in addition to about 30 virtual participants. The symposium consisted of six sessions …
by Elea Levin Most classes require students to take a final exam or turn in a final paper at the end of the semester for professors to evaluate their work. In Computer Science 638, the Computer Sciences Department’s Capstone course, students instead turn in a project that they collaborated on with a real company. The …
By Elea Levin This spring about 70 students divided into 30 teams participated in the 2022 “Hatathon,” a hat-themed, 24-hour hackathon event hosted by the UW–Madison Undergraduate Projects Lab (UPL). The UPL is a space for students with an interest in computer science to connect in person or on Discord to talk about classes, extracurriculars, …
By Elea Levin Earlence Fernandes, an assistant professor in the UW–Madison Computer Sciences Department, was awarded the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award for his research on Security and Privacy Foundations of Internet-Scale User-Centered Automation. The award comes with a continuing grant of over $500,000, which will be used for Fernandes’ research project, which focuses on …
By Elea Levin Computer Sciences Professor Suman Banerjee became an Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Fellow effective January 1, 2022. The title, which is one of the most prestigious honors of the IEEE, was awarded to Banerjee for his “development of tools to improve performance and usability of wireless systems.” The IEEE Fellow distinction …
Madison, WI and Washington, D.C. — The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected three faculty from the University of Wisconsin–Madison Computer Sciences Department to the newest class of AAAS Fellows, among the most distinct honors within the …