By Jennifer Smith   “Badger blood doesn’t go away, even though we haven’t lived in Madison in a very long time.  My wife and I still think of ourselves as Badgers,” says Thomas J. LeBlanc (MS ’79, PhD ’82). His education in computer science has taken him far:  LeBlanc recently became the 17th president of George …

Submitted by Jennifer Smith on Mon, 09/25/2017 – 10:51am Larry Travis, 1929-2017 (written by Sven Travis, son of Larry Travis) We celebrate the life of Larry Travis, who passed away on August 14 of complications from recent surgery. Travis was an influential figure in computing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and across the statewide university system. He …

By  Jennifer Smith   Nationally-ranked accelerator gener8tor is partnering with the UW–Madison Computer Sciences Department and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) to bring its gALPHA program to the UW–Madison campus. The program, “gALPHA+CS,” will pull talent and industry experts from across campus, match them with computer science students, help them build products, and, ultimately, start companies. gALPHA is …