Stories indexed under: Computer sciences

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• National cybersecurity effort launched to strengthen software infrastructure Nov. 1, 2012 Scientists at the Morgridge Institute for Research, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Indiana University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have received a $23.6 million grant as part of a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA 11-02) by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate to address threats arising from the development process of software used in technology ranging from the national power grid to medical devices.
• Class aims to birth software companies at UW-Madison Oct. 23, 2012 Paul Barford, a UW-Madison professor of computer science, has a proposition, and he's got five minutes to make it.
• Learning machines scour Twitter in service of bullying research Aug. 1, 2012 UW-Madison researchers have been teaching computers to scour the endless feed of posts on Twitter for mentions of bullying events.
• Collaborative computing, pioneered at UW–Madison, helped drive LHC analysis July 31, 2012 When scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe announced the appearance of a new particle among the pieces of smashed protons, Miron Livny saw a huge scientific success.
• UW scientists play key role in discovery of a new particle consistent with Higgs boson July 4, 2012 Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), aided by scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have narrowed the search for the elusive Higgs boson, discovering a new particle with a mass in the region of 125 GeV.
• $27 million award bolsters research computing grid June 20, 2012 Every day researchers add another sea of data to an ocean of knowledge on the world around us - billions on top of billions of measurements, images and observations of the tiniest subatomic particles up to the movement of planets and stars.
• National network innovation program builds on UW–Madison success June 14, 2012 Suman Banerjee's work finds plenty of happy users every day, but it's not every day the University of Wisconsin-Madison computer sciences professor helps inspire a national program supporting technical innovation.
• 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.