Rob Nowak and the beer mapper app he developed are highlighted in a recent Capital Times front page feature.
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Game-changing computational approach takes the guesswork out of materials design
Dane Morgan teams with John Booske to identify a promising candidate compound that could be used in next-generation vacuum electronic devices.
Finding Meaning in Big Data
Discovery Fellows Rebecca Willett and Rob Nowak are creating algorithms to make sense of big data and help machines learn. Full story at wid.wisc.edu.
How New Yorker Cartoons Could Teach Computers To Be Funny
“The computer models Nowak and his team are developing are called adaptive crowdsourcing algorithms. They attempt to weed out the weakest captions as quickly as possible to get more people to vote on the potential …
Stephen Wright, five others appointed to WARF professorship
Six members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty, including Stephen Wright, have been appointed to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation named professorships.
Ellenberg Wins Euler Prize for “How Not to Be Wrong”
Jordan Ellenberg is the recipient of the 2016 Euler Book Prize for an outstanding book in mathematics.
The Science of Funny: Active Machine Learning & Cartoons
The New Yorker is using a machine learning system developed by WID Optimization researchers to sort through captions for their weekly cartoon caption contest. See full story on wid.wisc.edu.
Campus ‘Big Data’ project may point the way to Alzheimer’s early detection
Mark Craven and David Page participate in Big Data project to study Alzheimers.
Catalyzing UW-Madison’s neuroengineering community
UW-Madison engineers including Rebecca Willett brought together colleagues from across the neuroscience spectrum to spark a more comprehensive discussion about the vast challenges and opportunities ahead for brain research and new neurological therapies.
“Dudes, I Won a Guggenheim”
Discovery Fellow Jordan Ellenberg awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.