Apple Inc could be facing up to $862 million in damages after a U.S. jury on Tuesday found the iPhone maker used technology owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s licensing arm without permission in chips found in many of its most popular devices.
Apple infringed six patent claims, says a U.S. jury. The technology invented by the University of Wisconsin-Madison improved the performance and power-efficiency of CPUs.
A federal jury has found Apple Inc. infringed on a technology patent held by the foundation that protects the University of Wisconsin’s intellectual property.
A federal court jury in Madison on Tuesday found Apple Inc. guilty of infringing on a patent held by the foundation that protects the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s intellectual rights when the company rolled out its 2013 and 2014 iPhone and iPad lineups.
Apple could have to pay up to $862m (£562m) in damages after a jury ruled that chip technology used in the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus violates a university’s patent.
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.
As she watched the surgeon operating on a farmer who had suffered third-degree burns across 95% of his body, researcher Lynn Allen-Hoffmann realized instantly she had a new mission: making human skin.
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.
A growing appreciation for the value of learning how to code has led to skyrocketing enrollments in computer science courses at UW-Madison that are stretching resources, says department chairman Mark Hill.
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.
Participation in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s “massive online open courses” — also known as MOOCs — has skyrocketed to well above the national average following an overhaul of the university’s offerings.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been ranked 16th among all universities in the world for its number of venture capital-backed entrepreneurs by Pitchbook, a Seattle research firm for private equity and venture capital activity.
Quoted: The flight technology has advanced rapidly. Brian Luck, an assistant professor of biological systems engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison, has an aerial drone that someone could fly safely with little practice or training.
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.
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.”
It’s tempting to look at the success of UW-Madison and the Madison area and conclude that Milwaukee has somehow missed the R&D boat that carries metropolitan regions to warmer economic ports. That’s only true if the region fails to work together in the years ahead.
It may not look like much at first glance, but a map created by University of Wisconsin computer science professor Paul Barford and about a dozen colleagues took around four years to produce. He believes it could make the Internet more resilient to accidents, disasters, or intentional attacks.
During Apple’s most recent annual tech-fest, the company unveiled new iPhone features in front of a packed arena in San Francisco. Some of its lawyers, meanwhile, are preparing for a different stage: A courtroom in Madison, Wisconsin.
Noted: In May 2012, the Senate Finance Committee opened a bipartisan investigation into the financial ties and requested records from 10 organizations, including a University of Wisconsin-Madison group, as well as some individuals with financial ties to several companies that make opioids.
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.
It may not look like much at first glance, but a map created by University of Wisconsin computer science professor Paul Barford and about a dozen colleagues took around four years to produce. He believes it could make the Internet more resilient to accidents, disasters, or intentional attacks.
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.
Business-focused Q&A with the chancellor of UW Colleges and UW-Extension.
Noted: GrocerKey is the brainchild of Jeremy Neren, who started an on-demand grocery service, Munchie Delivery, after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005.
In the early 2000s, JoAnne Robbins was considering turning her research on swallowing disorders into a company.
A center hosted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, is getting $20 million in National Science Foundation funding as it studies the effects of nanotechnology on the environment.
The “Startup Rangers” are a playful, millennial-focused new marketing venture launched by UW-Madison junior QuHarrison Terry.
Q&A with Aaron Olver, managing director of the UW-Madison’s University Research Park.
At one end of State Street on Saturday afternoon, thousands of UW-Madison students were moving into dorms and preparing to begin their school year. Several blocks away, at the Overture Center for the Performing Arts, 16 students were at the end of an academic experience. They were graduating from the YWeb Career Academy.
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).
Noted: In a classroom at the Wisconsin School of Business on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, there were lessons to be learned.
“Absolutely, I think our students can learn a lot from a day like today,” said Kristian Allee, assistant professor of accounting.
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.”
Should you take web development classes? Or poetry writing? Is it more important to think like an engineer, or an artist?
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.
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.
Noted: Bright Cellars said it has increased membership to more than 3,000. It also has hired two University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates and a former Epic Systems project manager, bringing its employee count to 11, from three employees three months ago.
When the University of Wisconsin asked businesses what they were looking for in employees, nearly all of them said, ‘data scientists.’ The university responded with an online data science master degree program to help bring more qualified data professionals to the job market..
The daylong conference is Sept. 25 at UW-Madison’s Fluno Center, with a registration deadline of Sept. 16.
Noted: Cellectar was founded in Madison in 2003 by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jamey Weichert. Following a 2011 merger with a public company, Novelos Therapeutics, the corporate headquarters was moved to Massachusetts. The company moved back to Madison in 2014.
Wisconsin companies with 500 or fewer employees could receive as much as $4,000 each for hiring an intern from the University of Wisconsin-Madison next summer, the state commerce agency said.
Noted: The group writing the plan includes representatives from agricultural organizations and businesses, environmental groups, the University of Wisconsin, state, federal and tribal governments.
The Wisconsin Idea is going high-tech, as UW-Madison works to leverage distance education to reach more students and generate more revenue. Outreach to non-traditional students reflects a bedrock value of the university and responds to a national trend in higher education, say UW-Madison officials.
Noted: In good times, farmers spend a lot of money on their businesses. Each dollar of net farm income results in an additional 60 cents of economic activity as it flows through the economy, according to UW-Madison research.
Quoted: Steven C. Deller, an economist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the economic impact from “recreational events like this oftentimes are more modest than people think theyre going to be.”
In a paper presented at Robotics Science and Systems in Rome in July, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison describe how they taught a Kinova Mico robot arm to help people do the dishes. The key, apparently, is slowing down and letting human team members take charge. “We want robots to follow our lead, or at least plan their actions with an awareness of ours,” says Bilge Mutlu, associate professor of computer science, psychology, and industrial engineering and an author of the paper.
Amy Wallner studied soil science, horticulture and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After just a few months working at West Madison Agricultural Research Station, she knew she wanted to be a vegetable grower.
Noted: Fetch Rewards has an app that makes grocery shopping easier. It was founded in 2013 by Wes Schroll, who was a University of Wisconsin-Madison student at the time
SmartUQ provides a faster way to do complex computer simulations with its analytics software, which helps companies reduce the complexity, time and cost of design cycles. It was formed in 2014 by Peter Qian, a statistics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It’s go-time tonight for eight college students participating in ImpactU, an accelerator program for college entrepreneurs. Following their ten-week program, they’ll have five minutes to pitch their business models to the start-up community during ImpactU Demo Day at UNC Charlotte Center City.
Here’s a quick look at the class of 2015’s participants, schools and projects:
Wiphala, from Jared Burris of University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Peter Rossi of Davidson College: This venture develops and manufactures llama fleece-based insulation, then sells it to apparel and bedding brands, retailers and manufacturers. This sustainable product can also increase Peruvian- or Bolivian- llama ranchers’ livelihoods.
Export Abroad, a software company that helps other firms with market research and sales leads in foreign countries, will be part of the first-ever White House Demo Day on Tuesday. Willy Hakizimana, 35, who co-founded Export Abroad in May 2014, said a San Francisco company that he works with nominated him for the event. Hakizimana came from Rwanda for an advanced degree in information systems at UW-Madison. “It’s just going to give us exposure and bring customers our way.”
State of Wisconsin CIO David Cagigal has a simple goal: To “never spend another dollar” on laying optical fiber cable for data projects involving state government and its partners. If that sounds unrealistic, consider that millions of miles of “dark fiber” — meaning, high-bandwidth fiber not in use — already exist in the United States. … Finding and lighting dark fiber will help Wisconsin prepare for the predicted bandwidth crunch brought on by the “Internet of Things” and the explosion in mobile devices, Cagigal and UW-Madison Chief Information Officer Bruce Maas told a July 28 meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network.
NeuWave, 3529 Anderson St., was founded in 2008 based on technology developed by UW-Madison professors Fred Lee and Daniel van der Weide and licensed from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
Speaking at a Wisconsin Innovation Network luncheon, UW-Madison CIO Bruce Maas and the state’s Department of Administration CIO David Cagigal said the need for increased connectivity will only skyrocket in coming years due to pressure from the “Internet of Things.”
Technology originally designed to study homes and heath with UW-Madison’s School of Nursing is now being used at crime scenes. Researchers at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery are hoping 3D scanning will make some of the most complicated crime investigations more efficient. Quoted: Kevin Ponto, assistant professor of design studies; Ross Tredinnick, systems programmer at the Living Environments Laboratory.
In case you haven’t noticed, a startup scene is surging all across Madison. Ideas are taking shape at coffee shops and on campuses, in coworking spaces and accelerators. Emerging new companies and academic spinoffs are launching products and services. They’re attracting consumers and clients and finding and growing resources to give their dreams a go. If local entrepreneurs and civic and business leaders capitalize on the city’s size, location and unique culture—and make inclusivity a priority—Madison has all the makings of becoming a startup city.
Sickening couples’ Facebook posts are a sign of true relationship commitment, according to a study published this week.
Technology originally designed to study homes and heath with UW-Madison’s School of Nursing is now being used at crime scenes. Researchers at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery are hoping 3D scanning will make some of the most complicated crime investigations more efficient.
Start-up accelerator gener8tor has launched an effort to pull more promising ideas out of Wisconsin’s colleges and universities and turn them into companies.
Noted: Rostowfske will receive training from the Food Institute of the University of Wisconsin-Madison extension, organizers said. He has been doing consulting work for nearly two years with Oscar Mayer, Palermos Pizza and other well-known brands. Before that, Rostowfske was director of innovation and new business development at Palermos, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Traveling through time, talking to animals, and saving the day — they’re all video game staples.
With the technology boom over the past decade, more teachers across the nation are taking a digital approach to their lesson plans. At this week’s 11th annual gaming conference hosted by the UW’s Games+Learning+Society department, participants were able to take a look at how games are used as a teaching tool.
