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‘Trial by fire’: UW-Madison hackathon generates tech ideas in 24 hours (via The Capital Times)
After 24 hours of programming and coding — fueled by plenty of snacks and energy drinks — the organizers of an annual hackathon event at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced which of the 55 projects would move on as finalists.
Celebrating 60: Anniversary sticker sheet honors six decades of Computer Sciences
Designed by School of Human Ecology student Grace Edwards BSx’25, here’s where to find the (free!) limited-edition stickers on campus.
Brent Seales MS’88, PhD’91 receives the Distinguished Achievement Award
Now a professor of computer science at the University of Kentucky and the pioneer behind “virtual unwrapping,” Seales uses technology of the future to preserve texts of the past.
Brian Pinkerton ’86 receives the Distinguished Achievement Award
“[UW–Madison] gave me the ability to tackle incredibly hard problems and be fearless about it,” says Pinkerton. “I’m just so incredibly grateful for that.”
Professor Bart Miller, the SC Conference, and some of his favorite people: his grad students
An affable, earnest guy, Dr. Barton Miller, the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW), has made an oversized impact on the SC Conference.
Meet new teaching faculty member Hina Mahmood
She hopes students will come away from her classes with “a robust problem-solving mindset” and with “both the confidence and capability to approach complex problems creatively and tackle them with a lifelong enthusiasm for learning.”
Meet new teaching faculty member Cole Nelson
He first got into computer science through MIT’s Scratch coding community and now wants “to teach students not only about building web applications and user interfaces but doing so in a secure and usable manner.”
Meet new teaching faculty member Kaiser Pister
He focuses on machine learning and paradigms of language, and wants his students to gain “critical thinking abilities while reading code and capability in designing new systems.”
CS Professor Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau will lead School of Computer Data & Information Sciences as Director Tom Erickson steps down
Erickson steps down, Arpaci-Dusseau to lead School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences