College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
Daniel Rakita (CS PhD student) has just been awarded a prestigious Microsoft PhD Fellowship. Only ten are awarded every year. “These are the best PhD students in North America; they are incredibly talented and it is really an honor to support them at this important and exciting stage of their careers,” said Neel Joshi, a …
Aishwarya Ganesan (4th year CS PhD candidate) has just been awarded a 2019 Facebook Fellowship. Twenty-one Fellows and seven Emerging Scholars were chosen from over 900 PhD-student applicants from around the world. “I am thrilled to be selected as a Facebook Fellow with the Distributed Systems research team,” says Ganesan. “The fellowship will connect me …
Over 30 high school computer science teachers from around the state attended a symposium on January 9 hosted by Faculty Associate Andy Kuemmel. The focus of the symposium was “Preparing Your Students for Success as a CS major.” This was a rare opportunity for CS high school teachers, not only to learn about helping their students prepare for college, …
Employer: Live Undiscovered Music Location: Madison, WI Deadline: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 LÜM is a music discovery and streaming platform that is built on a social network. Our application focuses on up and coming artists around the world and provides the ability for users to discover, share, and circulate music. We seek to decrease the disparity …
A team of U.S. computer scientists is receiving a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to make machine learning more trustworthy. The grant establishes the Center for Trustworthy Machine Learning (CTML), a consortium of seven universities, including the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Researchers will work together toward two challenging goals: understanding the risks …
A summer-term course for 4th- to 6th-grade girls taught them the basics of programming and AI, and even more importantly, taught them they belong in the STEM world.
UW CS Professor Suman Banerjee was recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery for his Outstanding Scientific Contribution to Computing. Read the press release here: 2018 ACM Distinguished Members Recognized for Significant Contributions that have Revolutionized How We Live, Work, and Play Major Achievements in Computer Engineering, Education and Science Have Contributed to Some of …
The Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will receive more than $2.2 million as part of a $25 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for its part in the Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High-Energy Physics (IRIS-HEP) project. The goal of IRIS-HEP is to develop …
CS professor Bilge Mutlu and grad student Joseph Michaelis believe companion robots will soon be a fixture in homes, and they wondered if those robots could serve as social learning companions for kids. They designed a two-week reading program including 25 books representing a range of reading skill and story complexity, and programmed Minnie to be …
Matthew Sinclair, who joined the computer architecture faculty in the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Department of Computer Sciences in the fall of 2018, says that he’s working on how to design future computer hardware. “I see the computing community moving forward toward a world of heterogeneity,” says Sinclair. “We won’t be able to rely on Moore’s …