Stories indexed under: Computer sciences

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• Networking pioneer Landweber named to Internet Hall of Fame May 10, 2012 The decision to put Lawrence Landweber in the "Innovators" circle of the newly-created Internet Hall of Fame is not likely one that cost the nominating committee any sleep.
• Two UW-Madison researchers awarded prestigious Sloan Fellowships Feb. 22, 2012 Two members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty are among 126 scientists from around the country who have been awarded prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships.
• International programming competition at Epic Nov. 11, 2011 Teams from at least three Wisconsin universities - the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Parkside and Milwaukee School of Engineering - will test their computer programming skills and mental endurance Saturday, Nov. 12 at Epic Systems in Verona in the regional round of the "Battle of the Brains," the IBM-sponsored ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.
• UW team part of IBM 'cognitive' computing chip project Aug. 18, 2011
• Red Hat honors UW-Madison partnership, contribution to research computing May 9, 2011 Red Hat Inc., the world's largest open-source software company, has given the first Red Hat Cloud Leadership Award to the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and named the CHTC its first Red Hat Center of Excellence Development Partner.
• The Hacker Within focuses on scientific computing April 7, 2011 For many University of Wisconsin-Madison students, Python is a snake and C++ is just gibberish.
• Euclid brings new computing capabilities to UW-Madison researchers Jan. 12, 2011 Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have a significant new computing resource. Dubbed the Euclid cluster, it enables research projects to marshal the power of many computers at once to run large-scale computing jobs much faster and to move large datasets and files at high speeds among individual servers that make up the cluster.
• Coming to a device near you: A safer, faster Internet Sept. 16, 2010 Like an aging bridge, the Internet is groaning under the weight of traffic that is growing by leaps and bounds and changing form under constant innovation.
• ‘Condor’ brings genome assembly down to Earth July 19, 2010 Borrowing computing power from idle sources will help geneticists sidestep the multimillion-dollar cost of reconstituting the flood of data produced by next-generation genome-sequencing machines.
• Location technology homes in on where stuff, people are Feb. 9, 2010 If you commute by mass transit in Madison or Chicago, Jignesh Patel can tell you, to the minute, when your bus will pull up to your stop. He can do this no matter the weather or traffic conditions.
• UW-Madison computer team gets honorable mention in world finals Feb. 8, 2010 A University of Wisconsin-Madison student computer team has earned an honorable mention at a world championship competition, held last week in Harbin, China.
• NACLO competition introduces students to computational linguistics Dec. 1, 2009 The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Computer Sciences will host local high-school and middle-school participants in the 2010 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) open competition.
• UW-Madison computer team heads to world finals for ninth straight year Nov. 11, 2009 A computer team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison got official notification on Nov. 10 that it will be heading to Harbin, China, for the world championship in February.
• Database architect wins IEEE award July 30, 2009 David DeWitt, professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been honored for his work with database systems.
• Software tool helps Web developers identify seizure-causing content July 22, 2009 In 1997, an episode of the popular Pok�mon cartoon gained worldwide attention when more than 800 Japanese children with photosensitive seizure conditions were admitted to the hospital after viewing the cartoon or the subsequent news coverage of it.
• Five big ideas to fill out Wisconsin Institute for Discovery portfolio June 30, 2009 Capping an intensely competitive process, five proposals from University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty have been selected to form the intellectual heart of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID).
• Those with interdisciplinary tastes should sample MALBEC April 8, 2009 An interdisciplinary seminar will feature scientists who use computational approaches to understand the behavior, learning and perceptions of people and machines.
• Four faculty awarded prestigious Sloan Fellowships Feb. 20, 2009 Four members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty are among 118 scientists, mathematicians and economists from around the country who have been awarded prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships.
• UW-Madison computer scientist named to national engineering academy Feb. 12, 2009 A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor is among 65 engineers and nine foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2009. Gurindar (Guri) Sohi, John P. Morgridge professor and E. David Cronon professor of computer sciences, has been ranked among the most distinguished engineers in the nation, peer-elected for their exceptional contributions to engineering research, practice or education.
• World’s largest computing grid ready for data Oct. 3, 2008 The technological advancements surrounding the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - the new particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland - are not just about the physics.