Noted: The idea for Thermal Spray Technologies came through a graduate research program in the late 1980s at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, when a professor approached Richard L. Wilkey, owner of Fisher Barton Inc., about using coatings to make lawn mower blades last longer. The program was founded around the idea with funding from the Wisconsin Department of Development and Fisher Barton.
Noted: Goldman and UW-Madison horticulture professor James Nienhuis have grown giant pumpkins for several years ? though theirs top out at only 400 pounds, which they use for a giant pumpkin regatta for their students on Lake Mendota.
The DHS contributes $23.5 million toward the Software Assurance Market Place to enable software developers to test open source programs and improve software analysis tools.
Noted: Foster co-founded the company as an 18-year-old with his brother, Bill Foster, and friends Gary Bewick and James Bradley, while they attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1970s.
Noted: Howard and two other then-University of Wisconsin-Madison students founded EatStreet in early 2010.
Noted: Kent, the chairman of the department of surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, now has a $500,000 federal grant and is working with a team to develop the app.
A physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has released an app that transforms that ordinary smartphone in your pocket into a device that detects elusive cosmic rays. And it wasn?t even that hard: “It was just one of those hobbies that happened to work out,” said assistant professor Justin Vandenbroucke in a news release.
Physicist Justin Vandenbroucke of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has created a new app that uses a smartphone?s image sensor to detect cosmic rays — something that has in the past required multi-million pound observatory equipment to achieve.
Listed: Madison, Wis. Despite being home to a Big Ten foe – Go Hoosiers! – Madison plays host to a great tech scene built on the foundation of two big players, Sonic Foundry and Raven Software. Madison is also big into the coworking scene, with locations like madworks coworking combining the power of entrepreneurship with resources from The University of Wisconsin-Madison. You?ll also find groups like gener8tor Investment Group and other members of this list of Madison startups.
Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison got into a strange Twitter spat Tuesday afternoon that involved squirrels and the Taco Bell chihuahua from the 90?s.
UW-Madison?s Wisconsin School of Business and Baird, a Milwaukee-based wealth management firm, are teaming up to prepare undergraduate business majors for careers in wealth and financial planning.
ORLANDO — As the higher education IT community meets at the annual Educause conference in search the next big thing, a survey shows IT officials still place training and support for faculty, staff and students at the top of their priority lists.
Noted: The UW-Madison is proving to be a good supplier of the raw talent. Zendesk supports a program through the Division of Information Technology DoIT where students work at the UW?s help desk using Zendesk?s customer service platform. That makes for an easy transition to the private sector.
The UW-Madison is proving to be a good supplier of the raw talent. Zendesk supports a program through the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) where students work at the UW?s help desk using Zendesk?s customer service platform. That makes for an easy transition to the private sector.
In an earlier blog post my colleague Tom Gleeson discussed some of the advantages and disadvantages of co-teaching a blended graduate course to students at McGill University, the University of Wisconsin ? Madison and the University of Saskatchewan.
Google Glass has officially entered the classroom in at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Professors are developing new ways to use the device after the school received a few pairs of the wearable technology more than a year before the public release.
A finance professor has found Google Glass to be an effective way to improve feedback to students. University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business?s Michael Gofman developed his idea in February 2014. After only a semester of using the technology to record commentary on student assignments, Gofman saw his student evaluation scores related to the quality of his feedback rise 38 percent from the year before.
University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank spoke highly of the university?s long-running research partnership with GE Healthcare during her first visit with the company?s top Milwaukee-area executives.
Aaron Olver, the new director of University Research Park, nearly had his promising career cut short, but for a little luck and his new wife?s unwavering support.
Stewart Brand, a counterculture icon of the 1960s, is known for a phrase technologists love to quote: ?Information wants to be free.?
The importance of a second research hub for Wisconsin was part of a message delivered last week in Milwaukee by UW-Madison Chancellor Becky Blank, who spoke to a meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network.
Noted: The Chicago Mercantile Exchange cash price for butter this time last year was $1.53 a pound, according to figures from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A California biotech consulting firm that pledged to create at least 103 local jobs by 2017 will get a $1 million low-interest loan from the state to help it buy an under-used pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in University Research Park where it plans to make cancer-fighting and other types of drugs for other companies.
For decades, it has felt like Milwaukee and Madison are separated by much more than 80 miles of highway and fields. The divide between Wisconsin?s two biggest cities?economically, culturally, and psychologically?has at times felt impossible to bridge.
No. 3: Madison. Home of the University of Wisconsin and the state capital, Madison has a low unemployment rate that makes it attractive to job seekers. From being a government-centered economy, it has switched its sights to being a technology and health care hub.
The program is open to University of Wisconsin faculty, staff, students and Madison area entrepreneurs.
Consumers have become highly adept at avoiding television advertisements. We switch channels, divert attention to our tablets and phones, and of course fast-forward through ads on our DVRs. Partly in response to this loss of attention, marketers are increasingly focused on product placement as an alternative way of exposing us to their brands. After all, product placement is innately much harder to skip given its integration into the actual program content.
Noted: Ankit Agarwal, who founded Imbed in 2010 with five professors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the company?s chief executive officer. He developed the technology while doing postdoctoral research in the university?s chemical and biological engineering department.
Noted: Shine is not building a nuclear power plant to make mo-99, as the isotope is called. It has a novel accelerator-driven technology that involves fissioning low-enriched uranium. The technology, developed by Piefer and former University of Wisconsin-Madison medical physics professor Paul DeLuca, generates 3,000 times less radioactivity than a nuclear power plant, Piefer said.
SALINA, Kan. (AP) ? A new phone app is helping some central Kansas addicts stay sober and away from drugs.
Kurt Squire first recognized the learning potential of games in 1987 in his history class in high school. When his teacher asked the students if they knew the differences between English and Spanish colonization strategies in the Caribbean, he was the only one who knew the answer (the Spanish sailed galleons and held forts across the Caribbean for transporting gold, while the English sought to establish permanent settlements). But Squire hadn?t been reading ahead in the textbook: He had inadvertently learned the history of Caribbean colonization from spending countless hours playing a video game called Sid Meier?s Pirates! on his Commodore 64 computer.
Aaron Olver, who will take over as head of University Research Park next month, says he?ll be working over the next year on an updated strategic blueprint as URP?s new site gears up for business.
Noted: Silatronix, a Madison company making a key component for a new generation of lithium ion batteries, has closed on $2.8 million from investors led by the Madison venture capital firm Venture Investors and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
Noted: Seventeen projects have been chosen for the launch of the new Discovery to Product, or D2P, program. The partnership between UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation is aimed at taking promising campus inventions and helping to speed their entry into the marketplace.
We?ve only just begun to embrace the potential of cloud. As the so-called Internet of Things takes hold, cloud computing services will need to acquire a new depth and breadth to handle petabytes of data, demanding, complex applications, and millions of users. New, evolving architecture is needed.
Jignesh Patel, a University of Wisconsin-Madison computer science professor who sold his company to Twitter, will discuss how to attract West Coast funding to state start-ups next week at the Forward Technology Conference, part of an eight-day event that is among the states biggest gathering of entrepreneurs.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison said Thursday it will receive $2.3 million from the National Science Foundation related to a project called CloudLab, which is bringing together university and industry teams to develop new technlogies for computer networking, storage and security.
Noted: Cellectar earlier this yearmoved its headquarters back to Madison from Newton, Mass. It 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.
Noted: The company is based on technology developed by chemists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., and Quallion LLC, a Palo Alto, Calif., battery maker.
The company was founded in Madison in 2003 by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jamey Weichert.
On Friday, the UW-Madison?s Discovery to Product program, which helps fund promising entrepreneurial projects in the hopes those ideas can later be marketed, announced a new batch of innovations to get that money.
As each day goes by, real life and technology become more unified than ever before. And in those areas where they aren?t, it feels kinda weird. For example, did you ever drive by a billboard or some notable sight on a highway but your passenger missed it? For a split second, do you think, ?Oh, just rewind it for her,? as if real life were a DVR?
Seventeen University of Wisconsin – Madison research projects have been chosen from a field of 170 ideas to participate in a new program designed to develop university research with the most commercial promise.
Seventeen projects have been chosen from 172 proposals to fast-track toward the market through a University of Wisconsin-Madison program.
Publicly traded Exact Sciences has 300 employees, about 200 of them in Madison, with headquarters in University Research Park, at 441 Charmany Drive, and a new lab in the Novation Campus, off Rimrock Road.
In Madison earlier this summer, the UW-Madison College of Engineering announced creation of a $25 million Grainger Institute for Engineering to attract clusters of top engineering faculty to define new research directions.
Teresa Adams, a UW-Madison professor of civil and environmental engineering, recently finished a three-year stint on a U.S. Department of Transportation committee that advises the secretary of transportation on ?intelligent transportation systems,? a broad field of inquiry that includes driverless cars.
Massive open online courses will return to the University of Wisconsin at Madison next year — or something that looks like them will, anyway. Having reviewed the results from its first round of MOOCs, the institution will offer new courses that are shorter, cover fewer topics and target Wisconsinites.
American Family Insurance has gifted $675,000 to the UW-Madison School of Business to create a distinguished chair in risk management.
Noted: The firm was founded by Timur Yarnall, co-founder of Clickability, and Paul Barford, a computer sciences professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will benefit from a $675,000 contribution from American Family Insurance, the Madison-based insurance giant said Tuesday.
BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation is creating a fund within its investment portfolio that will let donors specify that their money will go to companies directly tied to the UW-Madison.
“People love it when you ask them questions about themselves,” Christine Whelan, sociologist in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin, told NBC News. “It makes us feel good that the quiz is interested in us.”
By conventional education standards, UW-Madison?s first round of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, had an extremely rough start.
Protein Foundry LLC, a start-up formed by four Medical College of Wisconsin scientists, may be the first in a string of spinoffs to be incubated at the school under a new program aimed at helping move more companies out the door.
Noted: The organization will be run by Constance Steinkuehler, a former senior policy analyst from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Steinkuehler is also an associate professor in digital media at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a co-director of the Games+Learning+Society center at the university?s Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has joined the Council on Competitiveness, a nonpartisan organization that works on public policy solutions meant to drive the United State?s economic growth in world markets. The council was founded in 1986.
Blackshades, we?re not talking about sunglasses. In fact, the total opposite. Its a type of malware that has made national headlines, and is making some people think twice about what they do in front of their computer.
Rutgers Business School has picked University of Wisconsin professor Morris Davis to be the top academic official at its new real estate program, the university announced.
Morris Davis, a real estate and urban land economics professor at Wisconsin Business School, has been chosen to hold the Paul V. Profeta Chair in Real Estate at Rutgers Business School and help build Rutgers into a leading center for real estate studies and research.
