Tag Technology

Advanced manufacturing focus of June 10-14 conference

May 7, 2013

Featuring a broad swath of leading-edge research from around the world, an advanced manufacturing research conference June 10-14, 2013, will draw nearly 500 academic, industrial and governmental participants to the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison.

UW to offer new virtual internships to enhance women’s interest in engineering

April 26, 2013

The College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will offer for the first time a course entirely based on digital learning simulations in the fall of 2013.

Investment Board, WARF launch $30 million venture fund to target early-stage companies

March 19, 2013

The State of Wisconsin Investment Board and Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation are creating an early-stage venture capital fund focused on information technology.

Classroom give-and-take launches into Twittersphere

March 5, 2013

You can toss away that paper; Twitter just became your study guide.

Production process doubles speed and efficiency of flexible electronics

February 18, 2013

Stretched-out clothing might not be a great practice for laundry day, but in the case of microprocessor manufacture, stretching out the atomic structure of the silicon in the critical components of a device can be a good way to increase a processor's performance.

Journalism students learn ethics through online case study

February 8, 2013

You're a college student working for a news service, and your editor asks you to check out a breaking-news situation.

UW faculty dissect growing relationship with China

February 1, 2013

In forging connections with China, the University of Wisconsin–Madison has created an international model for the university. An upcoming panel of UW–Madison faculty will examine how this partnership with China is evolving and what it means for the future of the university and the student experience.

Campus plans migration to new email and calendar system

November 27, 2012

A campuswide team working to employ a single email and calendar software supplier for the campus has completed critical steps toward implementing Microsoft Office 365.

UW students go mobile, portable and functional with their computing

August 30, 2012

As their computing devices become smaller, UW–Madison students are raising their online expectations. Internet-ready handheld devices and tablet computers are growing in popularity on campus, and students want more from them in terms of features, apps and tools for learning and communicating.

Engineering moving classroom into digital age

August 16, 2012

The Internet has profoundly affected the lives of those born into an information-saturated world, the “digital natives.” It has shaped nearly all of their expectations of the world, including what they expect from an institution of higher learning.

UW-Madison partnership creates educational game development tools

June 13, 2012

Studies highlight the benefits of playing educational video games, but a new partnership seeks to understand whether the act of designing video games boosts students’ computational thinking and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills.

Aging at home: New project starts with community assets, not needs

June 8, 2012

Students tend to fret when they are "invited" to the principal's office, and last April Tayler Nelson was no exception.

Barrier-free technology coming of age in UW Trace Center project

June 5, 2012

Despite the rapid increase in access to and use of the Internet, barriers still exist for a wide variety of users: people with disabilities, people who are aging, and people who have literacy challenges.

Upgrades to Mobile UW flow from user requests

June 5, 2012

UW-Madison has released version 1.3 of its Mobile UW app for iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches and Android mobile devices.

Daya Bay antineutrino detectors exceed performance goals

February 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.