Statistics Ph.D. student Juan Francisco Mandujano Reyes has been awarded the School of Computer, Data and Information Sciences (CDIS) Ce-an Zuo & Chao-ming Wang Scholarship. Mandujano Reyes is the first student to receive the …
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Research Aims to Give Everyone A Fair Shot at Accessing COVID-19 Vaccines
Mathematical models have helped the U.S. optimize COVID-19 vaccine allocation and delivery to boost vaccination rates. But these models have not overcome the existing health disparities that stem from unequal access to health care, discrimination, …
CS Grad Students Achieve Success in Three Minute Thesis Competition
Three Minute Thesis is an international competition in which graduate students are given three minutes to present their thesis project to a general audience.
Human-Computer Interaction Research Focused on The Intersection of Tech And Humanity
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 …
iSchool Leaps in Rankings – Now at 11th Nationally
The UW-Madison Information School (iSchool) recently moved up in the U.S. News and World
Report ranking and is now the 11th best program for Library and Information studies in the nation.
UW-Madison leads efforts in Human Computer Interaction Consortium
The prestigious consortium for Human Computer Interaction (HCI) has a new home at UW-Madison. Known as the Human Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC), the HCIC is a leading group of academic, governmental and industrial organizations at …
Computer Sciences embraces interest and demand, and grows by 800%
2,022 students now declared majors By Nicole Herzog 06/16/2021 In 2011, just 200 students were Computer Science majors. A decade later, the number of students enrolled in the discipline has grown more than ten …
Protecting Infrastucture
This story appeared in the Spring 2021 Letters & Science magazine. About one in four people in the United States lives in an area served by cellular phone towers at risk of an outage caused by …
Creative Destruction Lab-WI Strengthens Efforts in Tech Entrepreneurship with Hire of Shabaka Gibson
Shabaka Gibson, an experienced leader in economic, community, and business development, and an Army veteran, has joined the Creative Destruction Lab – Wisconsin (CDL-Wisconsin) team as its new director. CDL-Wisconsin delivers mentoring for massively scalable, seed-stage, …
Ethics In Computer Science Course Prepares Students to Tackle Ethical Challenges in Tech
Ethics in Computer Science (CS638) was designed and launched to help students learn and explore the ethical risks of technology.