Computer, Data & Information Sciences

Computer Sciences alum Rajiv Batra MS’83 receives Wisconsin Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Award. The award is the Association’s highest honor and most high-profile and long-standing award. It celebrates prestigious graduates for their professional achievements, contributions to society, and support of the university over the course of their career or lifetime.

Seven notable School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences graduates share their next chapters, relive favorite moments, and dispense some words of wisdom on what they’ve learned and how they’ve grown.

“This facility is going to allow us to do something that no other university in the country is doing — to bring together three top-ranked departments under one roof and anchor them in a high-tech corridor that links computing to biomedical research to engineering to medicine,” Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said.

The College of Letters & Science hosts the assistant director of the National Science Foundation’s Technology, Innovation and Partnerships Directorate.

New information science major aims to appeal to a wide array of undergraduates, preparing a talent pipeline that will drive economic growth in the region and beyond.

Data Science, Computer Sciences and Psychology all make up the top five fastest growing majors showing UW-Madison's continued evolution to make sure higher education captures student interest and meets the needs of employers here in Wisconsin and around the world.

The awards honor staff members for their excellence in effectiveness, innovation, creativity, originality, leadership, climate, and service to the university.

Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau (computer sciences) and Kyoung-Shin Choi (chemistry) elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

And children have no interest in tracing where the games, rhymes, legends and trends they embrace and share come from, Information School professor says.