Stories indexed under: Computer sciences
Total: 6
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UW’s computing research prowess brings Microsoft to Madison
April 23, 2008
Microsoft, the world's largest computer software company, will open an advanced development laboratory in Madison later this spring, helping expand on a highly productive 20-year research and alumni relationship between the company and the University of Wisconsin-Madison computer sciences department.
- UW-Madison graduate programs fare well in annual U.S. News rankings April 2, 2008 A number of graduate programs and specialties at UW-Madison scored high marks in the 2009 "Best Graduate Schools" edition of U.S. News and World Report.
- Computer programming team places first in regional competition Dec. 19, 2007 The UW-Madison computer programming team "Red No. 40" beat 198 other teams to place first in the North Central Regional Competition of the International Collegiate Programming Competition in early November, qualifying the team to compete in the World Finals in April.
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Computer scientist forges new line of defense against malicious traffic
Nov. 5, 2007
Paul Barford has watched malicious traffic on the Internet evolve from childish pranks to a billion-dollar "shadow industry" in the last decade, and his profession has largely been one step behind the bad guys.
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Computer scientists set on winning the computer virus ‘cold war’
May 24, 2007
First came the virus. Then came the antivirus software. Ever since, virus programmers have been escalating their technology, trying to stay one step ahead of the computer security engineers and vice versa.
- Two faculty named American Academy fellows April 30, 2007 Two faculty members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been elected Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.