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 …

After 18 months full of unprecedented hurdles, the UW–Madison team finished 17th out of 117 teams at the International Collegiate Programming Contest world finals in Moscow. They also ranked fourth out of the 15 North American teams competing. ICPC is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world, conducted by and for …