In The New York Times: The Women of ‘Star Wars’
L&S alumna Rachel Rose has spent the last decade as an engineer at Industrial Light and Magic, the special-effects studio founded by George Lucas. She holds a doctorate in Computer Sciences from UW-Madison.
UW-Madison team wins Innovation Award in Hyperloop competition
A team of University of Wisconsin–Madison students won an innovation award in a worldwide SpaceX Hyperloop pod competition.
The UW–Madison Badgerloop team competed against 30 teams from colleges and universities from around the world in the second phase of SpaceX’s Hyperloop pod competition, which was held Jan. 27-29, 2017, outside SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
CS Learning Center boosts student success through peer-to-peer assistance
It’s no secret on campus that introductory computer science courses can be quite challenging—so a new tutoring lab within the Department of Computer Sciences is ready to provide students with the extra help they may need to succeed.
The Computer Sciences Learning Center opened on a pilot basis during the spring 2016 semester and has become more established this fall, with a roster of fifteen tutors who keep it open 6 hours per day, four days a week. Students can drop in for as-needed, peer-to-peer help, rather than needing to abide by the office hours of a professor or TA.
Prof. Sohi named recipient of 2016 IEEE Computer Society B. Ramakrishna Rau Award
IEEE Computer Society awards committee has selected Dr. Gurindar S. Sohi to receive the 2016 B. Ramakrishna Rau Award.
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