Category: Business/Technology

When it comes to entrepreneurship at the UW-Madison, John Surdyk is smack-dab in the middle of the action, right where the ideas start.

Noted: Taffora made his comments during a panel discussion about entrepreneurship sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin-Madisons business school. They were part of a free-ranging discussion of the state of entrepreneurship in Wisconsin.

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison UW-Madison, the university has become a part of a National Science Foundation program, called CloudLab, to create three testbeds for SDDCs.

Noted: Conroy said about 50 percent of Exact’s scientists and lab workers are graduates of UW-Madison.

UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank has not been shy making an argument about the university’s professional schools that boils down to this: they offer too much bang for too little tuition buck. A new report suggests that the basic storyline holds true at the business school. Among masters of business administration graduates, Wisconsin students come out making an average of about $109,000 annually, a similar but slightly lower haul as peers at more fancy schools.

A hybrid between Spotify and iTunes, Murfie, a company created by three University of Wisconsin graduates, allows people to build “media ownership in the cloud.”

The University of Wisconsin says planning and vigilance are the only ways to stay one step ahead of an attack

Conroy said even though the UW-Madison spends nearly $1.2 billion a year in research funding, the UW is at the bottom of the Big Ten schools in terms of research sponsored by corporations. That makes it very difficult to conduct clinical trials of potential drugs and medical devices, said Conroy. He said it can take nine months to go through a review by a UW panel to allow a clinical trial while the “Mayo Clinic can get it done in two months.”

Wisconsin’s farm economy bucked a national downward trend and set key income and wealth records in 2014 with the help of dairy farmers who increased production as milk prices skyrocketed, according to a new report.

I did not attend the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas but via Twitter I met John Shutske, Associate Dean for Extension and Outreach Programs in the University of Wisconsin’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences who was attending. John agreed to share some of his observations of the events he attended during last week’s show so that’s what we’re talking about in this week’s program.

Noted: Ebullients technology, which uses liquid rather than air to cool computers, was developed by Timothy Shedd, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

A lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild in the fall of 2011 against five HathiTrust Digital Library institutions, including the University, formally concluded Jan. 6.

Quoted: “A lot of these apps talk about anonymity, and there are some things that you can remain anonymous with,” says Marc Lovicott, a public information officer at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. “But a lot of these apps, we’re able to track down individuals through different means.”

Noted: Emory’s mobile app strategy is similar to one that’s taken off at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The UW–Madison Mobile Learning Incubator team develops apps alongside faculty and students to blend mobile technology with classroom lessons.

Other universities are trying free online courses as a way to engage alumni. Harvard University began offering such courses to graduates last year. The University of Wisconsin at Madison plans to offer six courses with shared themes of human choices and the changing environment, said Lika Balenovich, a spokeswoman for educational innovation.

A laboratory designed to host classified cybersecurity research has been built at the University Research Park on the West Side.

Noted: 3Dprint.com reported another interesting tidbit of news from ROBO: It plans to integrate Spectrom‘s full-color 3D printing technology into its printers, starting with the R1. Spectrom is an adapter invented by two University of Wisconsin students that allows most printers to make multicolored prints. It doesn’t print with multiple spools of different colors of plastic; instead, it actually blends colors to achieve a full spectrum. That’s pretty much unheard of in 3D printing, especially for a desktop machine.

The amount of bonus pay workers receive usually depends on their rank. Salaried workers exempt from overtime pay notch merit bonuses amounting to an average of 4.1% of their salary, according to research from Barry Gerhart, a management professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Meiyu Fang, of National Central University, Taiwan. More than a quarter of officers’ and executives’ pay is tied to performance, according to the study, published in Human Resource Management Review.

Noted: ComScore Inc., of Reston, Va., said in August it had purchased MdotLabs, co-founded by Paul Barford, a University of Wisconsin-Madison computer science professor. Twitter last year bought Locomatix Inc., a company started by Jingnesh Patel, a UW-Madison computer science professor.

TNS — Imagine a football helmet with brain wave probes and a device that measures acceleration forces to detect concussions on the field and directly communicate the information to medical staff.

Noted: It’s a familiar path for Cusatis, 24. He founded the Badger Brewing Association when he was an undergrad at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a way to bring together students, professors, brewmasters and other beer professionals for lectures, tastings and camaraderie.