Kim earns NSF CAREER Award: Energy savings through approximation
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Papailiopoulos earns NSF CAREER Award: What can cellphone clarity teach machine learning?
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Velten earns NSF CAREER Award: Better cameras for capturing fluorescence
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Wisconsin undergrads among international elite at hyperloop contest
Teams of students from around the world gathered in the California desert to find out whose designs for an ultrafast, airtight transportation pod would make the fastest trip down a mile-long test track during the fourth annual SpaceX Hyperloop competition, held July 21, 2019, at the company’s headquarters southwest of Los Angeles. Among the 21 teams was Bagerloop, a majority-undergraduate crew from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Lessons of conventional imaging let scientists see around corners
On July 11, 2019, UW graduate students (left to right) Xiaochun Liu, Ji-Hyun Nam and Toan Le work with assistant professor and principal investigator Andreas Velten (right) in the Computational Optics lab inside the Medical Sciences Building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a project designed to create non-line-of-sight images using reflected laser light
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Privacy-protecting cameras earn prize in smart cities competition
Smart cameras help us care for our homes, pets and loved ones, but what’s looking out for our privacy beneath the gaze of so many artificial eyes? It’s an increasingly important question, especially as advances in cloud computing and machine learning make it easier than ever for people—possibly with ill intentions—to track our every move.
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How smart ID bracelets could improve healthcare
With a bit of an upgrade, the barcoded ID wristbands that identify patients throughout their hospital stays could become powerful tools for improving their treatment outcomes—while at the same time, slashing healthcare costs.
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With specialized upgrades, one-of-a-kind facility at UW-Madison forges a path toward fusion
On the first floor of Engineering Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a 20-ton slightly deformed donut-helix-shaped machine forms the containment vessel for an experiment that could bring humanity one step closer toward harnessing the fusion energy that powers our sun.
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