Missed the national CDIS launch event? Here’s all that happened — from the appearance of big names in tech to major announcements — and what’s coming up next.
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CS alum Matt Amodio (MS ’17) wins 38 games of Jeopardy
Matt Amodio was recently eliminated from the game of Jeopardy, but not before he set the second longest all-time win streak in the show’s history.
UW-Madison Alumni Chandler Zuo makes a difference with establishment of the new Ce-an Zuo & Chao-ming Wang Scholarship
Mandujano Reyes is the first student to receive the newly-created award, which funds academic expenses that enable student success.
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New Data Science Degree Emerges As The Fastest Growing Major At UW-Madison
With a total of 425 students declaring the major in just eight months, Data Science has become the fastest growing major at UW-Madison.
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
UW-Madison Human-Computer Interaction researchers are developing solutions that enable computer-based technology to improve our daily lives.
Creative Destruction Lab-WI Strengthens Efforts in Tech Entrepreneurship with Hire of Shabaka Gibson
The strategic hire of Gibson will extends UW-Madison’s position as a key player in entrepreneurship efforts
UW-Madison leads efforts in Human Computer Interaction Consortium
UW now leads the Human Computer Interaction Consortium that includes the most influential names in HCI including Stanford, Cornell, Northwestern, Microsoft, Facebook and Google.
Computer Sciences embraces interest and demand, and grows by 800%
The Computer Sciences Department, part of CDIS, has seen a meteoric rise in the number of undergraduate major declarations over the past ten years.