Stories indexed under: Technology

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• Daya Bay antineutrino detectors exceed performance goals Feb. 29, 2012 After just three months of operation, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has far surpassed expectations, recording tens of thousands of particle interactions and paving the way to a better understanding of neutrinos and why the universe is built of matter rather than antimatter.
• Classroom iPad use encourages innovation, reading with ease Nov. 15, 2011 The iPad, with it's ease of use and touch-screen technology, is catching on as a classroom tool at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• UW–Madison plans Wednesday emergency notification system test Nov. 8, 2011 UW-Madison is planning a full-scale test of WiscAlerts, its campus emergency notification system, between 12-2 p.m. this Wednesday, Nov. 9.
• Mobile UW: New and improved Sept. 8, 2011 Mobile UW from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is getting its first major upgrade.
• Web version of WiscMail updated Jan. 4, 2011 The web version of WiscMail has been updated, based on feedback from many e-mail users.
• UW-Madison: There’s an app for that Dec. 3, 2010 Mobile UW, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's official iPhone app, is now available for free download from the Apple App Store.
• Chancellor conducts TelePresence meeting from China Nov. 5, 2010 As part of her trip to China and Taiwan, Chancellor Biddy Martin helped to inaugurate a cutting-edge videoconferencing device now available to the greater UW-Madison campus community.
• Millions awarded for high-capacity Internet Aug. 18, 2010 Wisconsin has received a federal boost in networking capacity thanks to $32.3 million in federal grants announced today (Aug. 18) by University of Wisconsin-Extension Provost and Vice Chancellor Christine J. Quinn. UW-Extension led the grant application process.
• Public-private venture wins grant to extend Internet links to underserved areas March 3, 2010 A broad partnership of Madison-area education, health, government and nonprofit organizations, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been awarded $5.1 million in federal stimulus funding to expand access to computer networks for underserved communities and local agencies.
• 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.
• Students use computing skills to hasten Haiti relief efforts Feb. 1, 2010 "I have this bumper sticker that says, 'Python will save the world. I don't know how, but it will,'" says Nicholas Preston, a University of Wisconsin-Madison postdoctoral researcher.
• TIP/Apple Tablet experts Jan. 27, 2010 Jan. 27, 2010
• Interactive animations give science students a boost Dec. 14, 2009 For a generation of students raised and nurtured at the computer keyboard, it seems like a no-brainer that computer-assisted learning would have a prominent role in the college science classroom.
• Digital revolution is happening outside the classroom Oct. 6, 2009 The way we learn is changing, but schools are having trouble keeping up. While technology dominates daily life and work, it still plays a limited role in public schools filled with students who are increasingly learning outside the classroom with help from cell phones, computers and video games, says Rich Halverson, a professor of educational leadership and policy analysis and co-author of the new book “Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology.”
• UW-Madison students set trends in information technology Aug. 25, 2009 Students continue to embrace technologies for personal use, including, more than ever, in the classroom. Well-versed before entering college, university students use a variety of new technologies to help them with their coursework.
• Faculty aim to strengthen technology, science education by blending them July 24, 2009 A group of UW-Madison researchers and Thermo Fisher Scientific scientists will bring together high school students and teachers to build and use diagnostic equipment that would not be out of place in university research labs.
• Registration now open for Wisconsin Science and Technology Symposium July 2, 2009 The second annual Wisconsin Science and Technology Symposium, to be held July 23 and 24, will bring together science and technology researchers, entrepreneurs, and investors from across the state to help them share ideas and spark new collaborations.
• Participate in implementing the IT Strategic PlanFramework April 22, 2009 Shortly after the publication of the new Campus Strategic Framework, Ron Kraemer, CIO and vice provost for information technology, released a draft of the IT Strategic Plan Framework. The plan highlights approximately 25 strategic priorities for improving campus IT services and infrastructure.
• Can you see me now? Flexible photodetectors could help sharpen photos Jan. 13, 2009 Distorted cell-phone photos and big, clunky telephoto lenses could be things of the past.
• Stretching silicon: A new method to measure how strain affects semiconductors Nov. 3, 2008 UW-Madison engineers and physicists have developed a method of measuring how strain affects thin films of silicon that could lay the foundation for faster flexible electronics.