College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
Computer science has become the largest major on the UW–Madison campus – with over 2,000 students – and is only expected to continue growing as students break into many different industries.
Researchers at UW–Madison’s School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences have been working on “human-computer interaction” in attempts to greatly improve our daily lives.
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 really enjoyed writing computer programs that can do in millionths of a second what would take humans hours or even …
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, and they also go hand in hand with each other. Data science helps me apply my knowledge of computer science …
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 on Data Communications. Liu was recognized for “identifying and enabling novel uses of programmable network devices in data centers, including …
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 robot takes their place in assembling the plane. The robot extends its mechanical arm, grasping tools in one hand while …
Wildfires have been causing recent damage to cellphone towers, and researchers have been tasked with finding site-specific, long-lasting solutions.
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 donations than the last Day of the Badger in 2019. This was made possible by the generosity of our donors …
By Elea Levin While most students have to wait for an internship to get hands-on experience working with a company in their field, a group of undergraduates had the opportunity to gain this real world experience through one of their UW–Madison Computer Sciences classes. The Computer Sciences Department launched a new Capstone course this fall …
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 from a wide variety of departments. Three Minute Thesis is an international competition in which graduate students are given three …