Not only did researchers find that the apps gather audio data while “mute” is activated; they could identify activities picked up when microphones weren’t believed to be on, such as eating, playing music, typing and cleaning.
Human-Computer Interaction research at UW–Madison aims to make technology more accessible while fostering efficiency in human-centered tasks.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank has appointed two UW–Madison graduates — a technology entrepreneur and a Silicon Valley veteran — to head a group drawn from campus, alumni and industry.
The extensive program for students from tribal communities is a new component of a long-running UW diversity initiative called the Information Technology Academy.
UW-Madison is launching a study of information technology governance and structure on campus. The effort will be led by Mike Lehman, a former UW interim vice chancellor and executive with Sun Microsystems.
Maas identified leadership development of the IT community as one of his proudest accomplishments.
MADISON — The final straw landed in the middle of the night, when Kurt Sippel smashed his foot into a box laden with computer equipment at his apartment. Sippel, the solo operator of a technology assistance firm, got the message: “I’ve gotta get out of my apartment!” Deliveries of computers, monitors and routers were so …
As security breaches of household name corporations make headlines and complicate lives, undergraduates remain surprisingly underexposed to basic cybersecurity tactics. The Morgridge Institute for Research is addressing this gap through a partnership with Bowie State University.
A federal jury has found that Apple infringed a patent owned by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation for an invention that significantly improves the efficiency and speed of computer processing. On Oct. 16, at the end of a two-week trial, the jury awarded WARF damages of $234 million. Gurindar Sohi WARF claimed that Apple had …
Earthling Interactive of Madison does produce websites, but calling the 16-year-old firm a “website developer” is like comparing a Boeing 777 pilot to a kid who hurls paper airplanes. Sure, they both achieve flight, but that’s the end of the similarities.
As farms grow increasingly complex and more dependent on science and technology, the iconic image of an old homesteader in weather-worn overalls is being replaced by that of a digital-savvy agricultural expert wielding a tablet.
About 15 months after it went live, software called Ionic is fueling the hottest trend in information technology: mobile apps.
Julie Bauer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison alumna and president of Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company, will be among the more than 600 business executives and technology leaders at the 16th annual Business Best Practices and Emerging Technologies Conference, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison E-Business Consortium (UWEBC).
Researchers have long relied on the venerable and trusted paper lab notebook for keeping an orderly record of research data, notes and experimental procedures. Soon, researchers on the UW-Madison campus will have a new option to store and organize these activities in the form of Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) software services under a new UW contract with LabArchives.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has transitioned to a new high-speed advanced research and education Internet network.
A new system to avoid power outages on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus like the one that occurred on June 18 has been installed, according to the university’s Division of Information Technology (DoIT).
Cybercrime is a booming, estimated $100 billion industry in the United States and shows no signs of slowing down.
While the popularity of mobile devices and tablets has been increasing, UW-Madison students are not using them as anticipated, according to a survey by the university’s Division of Information Technology (DoIT).
Latoria Isom, a recently hired IS Technical Support Technician at UW-Madison’s Administrative Information Management Systems (AIMS), loves her job of installing and repairing computers for faculty and staff throughout campus. “There’s always something new to learn,” she says. “I don’t like to be bored and it’s never the same thing.”
The announcement of a new source of investment capital for campus information technology entrepreneurs, or researchers aspiring to join their ranks, adds to a growing list of initiatives to speed the transfer of technologies from UW–Madison labs for the benefit of the public and advancing the pace of university innovation.