Computer, Data & Information Sciences

A new cohort of L&S professors achieves a major career milestone.

Six things we’ve learned from the AI Terrarium.

Given AI’s dazzling complexity and light-speed evolution, AI exceptionalism is an understandable view. But it is also a misleading and counterproductive one.

Professor Emerita Grace Wahba has been awarded the 2025 International Prize in Statistics, one of the highest honors in the field.

The College of Letters & Science bestows named chairs and professorships on 17 faculty members.

Extraordinary members of L&S faculty and staff have been honored during the last year with awards supported by the estate of professor, U.S. Senator and UW Regent William F. Vilas (1840-1908).

Three College of Letters & Science students have received 2025 Goldwater Scholarships, considered the country’s preeminent undergraduate scholarship in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.

Computer sciences professor Gurindar (Guri) Sohi has won the 2025 Computer Pioneer Award in Honor of the Women of ENIAC from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society. The first person from UW–Madison to receive the honor Sohi is recognized for his contributions to enhancing the efficiency of microprocessors and his influence on computer architecture.

Six L&S faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators.