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UW’s dairy mobile app helps farmers worldwide

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At the University of Wisconsin’s Arlington Farm Research Station, they’re using modern technology to track herd health. In the past, that took a lot of time and paperwork. “We had lots of paper records and we wanted to turn that into something more functional,” says Prof. Nigel Cook, of the UW School of Veterinary Medicine.

With the help of the “DoIT” center on campus, the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine developed a series of digital teaching tools, which continue to play a role in preparing the next generation of food animal veterinarians. “We now have an app with pictures, with a scoring system, with just a touch screen system to be able to screen for a lot of cows very quickly,” says Cook.

Redox Inc. raises $3.5 million in latest round of funding

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Noted: Redox is one of several digital health companies that are emerging in Madison. With Epic Systems Corp., which has more than half the market share in the electronic health records market, and a strong computer science department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Dane County area is becoming known as a center for this industry segment.

Wisconsin jury says Apple owes $234 million in patent case

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A jury has awarded the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation more than $234 million in a patent infringement lawsuit against computer maker Apple Inc.

Noted: The patent dispute involved chip technology that was co-invented by University of Wisconsin-Madison computer sciences professor Gurindar Sohi, who was in the courtroom for the decision. U.S. District Judge William Conley told Sohi he hoped he felt his work was vindicated.

Apple ordered to pay University of Wisconsin $234 million for patent infringement

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Apple is being required to pay the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation $234.2 million for illegally using microchip technology developed by the university in both iPhones and iPads, according to a WARF release.

The jury deliberated for almost four hours Friday before determining that Apple’s A7, A8 and A8X processors violated UW’s patent, officials said.

The federal trial, in which the WARF was asking for $400 million in damages, began Oct. 5 in Madison.

‘Is WARF a patent troll?’ and four other questions about the Apple vs. WARF lawsuit, answered

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Capital Times

WARF, which oversees and protects patents on University of Wisconsin inventions, sued the tech giant in February 2014, claiming Apple used a piece of microprocessing technology invented at the UW-Madison without paying for rights. On Tuesday, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin ruled that Apple did violate WARF’s patent.

Madison start-ups will make pitches for funds in Silicon Valley

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Noted: The start-ups will tour Google’s headquarters and attend an invitation-only dinner to interact with potential investors and business partners. They also will make pitches to a dozen global investment firms and meet their representatives at a reception sponsored by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. and the Badger Entrepreneurship Forum, an organization of University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni who live in Silicon Valley.

Eureka! UW is (finally) learning how to push its research to market

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Isthmus

This could be big for UW-Madison. It’s exactly the sort of transformative discovery you would expect from a great research university. Like Harry Steenbock fortifying the vitamin D content of milk. Like James Thomson unlocking the mystery and promise of stem cells. In this case, two UW researchers have pioneered a breakthrough that could end of the flood of human antibiotics into animal feed.

Tech and Biotech: UW alums strut their business success; Cellectar pulls in funding

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Wisconsin State Journal

More than 500 students packed an auditorium at Gordon Commons on Thursday night — not just to scarf down the free hors d’oeuvres but to hear the stories of four UW-Madison alums who started companies that soared.The Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Showcase was just that — a demonstration of what entrepreneurs can accomplish with a good idea, hard work and maybe a little luck.

Students create inventions of the future in UW-Madison garage

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Some of America’s greatest innovations have come from garages, or basements. The makerspace called Garage Physics at UW-Madison is both.

It’s giving young scientists like Felix Tsao the ability to reach for something brand new. “It’s like a virtual reality project where basically it extends a digital experience to your vision,” said Tsao.

Quoted: Duncan Carlsmith, professor of physics.

Researchers at UW Madison hope their work will optimize teachers’ time with students

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Inside Higher Education

Imagine if schoolteachers and college professors were immediately able to identify how each of their students learns, what learning style works best for each child and what new topics he or she is struggling with.Research faculty members at the University of Wisconsin at Madison are hoping that this can be the future of education.

Experts sound off on new fantasy football sites

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Quoted: Don Stanley, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin’s life sciences communication department, says the fad is a testament to the fast-paced times.

“[It] allows people to make a mistake, and then the next week, everybody’s right back in it, at the same starting line,” Stanley said. “That obviously has been very appealing to people.”

Millions of people have logged on and signed up so far this season – at least one site expects to dole out $2 billion over the fall, according to Stanley.

“That’s astounding when you think about it,” he says. “It’s unbelievable the scale of revenue that’s involved in these one-week leagues.”

Madison contract manufacturer raises funds from investors

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Noted: Reidar Aamotsbakken, who co-founded Swift with Heidenreich, is Cellara’s chief technology officer. Along with many other technical positions, he was previously director of the medical device program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Cellara, which is developing software for stem cell researchers, said in May it had raised $470,000 of funding.

Report says Wisconsin’s bioscience industry needs better marketing

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Noted: Unlike many states that are angling to be bioscience centers, Wisconsin has a good foundation. Between the University of Wisconsin-Madison — the state’s life sciences research juggernaut — and a consortium of schools in the Milwaukee area, universities here generate a strong talent pool and attract nearly $1 billion of research funding, Ernst & Young’s report says.

FluGen adds investors

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FluGen’s Redee Flu vaccine is based on research by UW-Madison scientists Yoshihiro Kawaoka and Gabriele Neumann, licensed exclusively to the Madison company by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).

Tech and Biotech: Burrill contest canceled for 2016

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Leaders of Madison’s entrepreneurial community say they are surprised and saddened to hear the G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition has been called off for 2016. A highlight of the UW-Madison’s School of Business for the past 18 years, a notice on the contest’s website says “due to budgetary constraints,” the Burrill competition is being “suspended.”

Responsibility And Blame In The Ashley Madison Data Breach

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Wisconsin Public Radio

Making good on a threat, a hacker group called Team Impact appears to have released the personal information of 37 million users of the site AshleyMadison.com. The information includes names, user names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and details of credit card transactions as well as sexual preferences. The site is run by Avid Life Media and is marketed for people interested in cheating on their spouses, with the slogan: “Life is short. Have an affair.” Interviewed: Catalina Toma.

Medical innovations at UW’s Fab Lab

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Thanks to new funding at UW, doctors will be able to have some everyday wishes granted. Engineers and students are working on prototypes for medical innovations that doctors have said they are lacking in their practice. The UW Department of Emergency Medicine is teaming up with UW’s Morgridge Advanced Fabrication Lab or “Fab Lab” to improve these medical tools, which could improve your time in the hospital.