Rockwell Automation Inc. and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are among 73 companies, nonprofits and universities that are investing in building a Midwest Digital Lab for Manufacturing at the University of Illinois.
Some day, putting your smartphone on the car seat next to you while driving could recharge the phone?s battery.
Qian, 36, an associate professor of statistics at UW-Madison, founded Metamodeling Analytics, a Madison company developing software to speed the process for designing new industrial products.
Chicago has won a $70 million grant from the Defense Department for a research center for digital-manufacturing technology, a new facility that could dramatically raise the city?s profile beyond being a hotbed for startups.
While it?s already possible to wirelessly recharge smartphones in cars, those cars need to be equipped with a special charging pad that the phone has to be placed on. Thanks to a newly-developed “nanogenerator,” however, it might eventually be possible to place the phone anywhere in any car, letting the vehicle?s vibrations provide the power.
With the rise of social media, a public figure?s personal critics are never more than 140 characters away.Student-athletes are among those who feel the sting of ill-advised or critical social posts, which has raised the question as to whether universities should take steps to regulate the sites.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s technology department presented a plan to change the campus email system from WiscMail to Microsoft Office 365, to Associated Students of Madison Coordinating Council Wednesday.
A unique way of adding color to 3-D created products was the winning entry in the 20th annual Innovation Days competition at UW-Madison.
This past year a colorful new assortment of notebooks with canine characteristics reached the shelves of the University Bookstore here in Madison. You may have given ?paws? to the WOOF logo as you strolled down the paper aisle in that frantic last-minute rush to fetch some school supplies before the new semester. Perhaps you stopped to admire the howling pup on the cover or even purchased one out of sheer adoration. But you probably didn?t know that ?WOOF? isn?t just what the dog says or merely some vibrant notebook with a dog graphic on it. WOOF Supplies is a charitable organization that seeks to enhance educational opportunities for underprivileged students in the U.S. WOOF is an acronym for ?Working On Our Future,? and it aspires to do just that.
Noted: EatStreet was founded in 2009 by Howard and two other University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates, Eric Martell and Alex Wyler.
?This is the dairy farmers? year to enjoy,? said Mark Stephenson, the director of the UW-Madison?s Center for Dairy Profitability.
The University of Wisconsin System is partnering with the state?s chief jobs agency to create a $2 million seed fund to help bring technology ideas developed at UW campuses to the marketplace.
A $2 million fund to help faculty and students on University of Wisconsin campuses commercialize ideas and potentially create new businesses and jobs was launched Thursday by the UW System and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.
Three finalists have been selected to be interviewed to lead Discovery to Product (D2P), a new venture at UW-Madison to boost the entrepreneurial efforts on campus.
Three finalists have been named for the job heading the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Discovery to Product initiative, which is intended to boost campus entrepreneurism.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation isn?t the only organization accusing Apple Inc. of infringing on a high-tech patent. A few days after WARF filed suit against the technology giant, a Texas-based company did the same based on a different complaint.
Skiers, bikers and other silent sports enthusiasts spent $26.4 million in trips to three northern Wisconsin counties in 2012, resulting in $14.7 million being pumped into the counties economies, according to a new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension Department of Urban and Regional Planning.
Accounting giant Ernst and Young LLP announced a pledge of $1.1 million to the Wisconsin School of Business Thursday, a gift the company believes will have a significant return on investment.
Ernst & Young’s pledge includes $850,000 for the Global Mindset Leaders program and the remaining funds going to other accounting programs. The global mindset idea has two components: academic and extra-curricular activities for undergraduate business students that demonstrate the value of diversity in the classroom, workplace and business environment, and secondly, scholarships to under-represented minority students.
MADSION, Wis. — The foundation that manages patents for the University of Wisconsin-Madison has filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc., alleging the electronics and software giant infringed on one of its patents.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation sued Apple on Monday, claiming that the gadget giant infringed on one of WARF?s computer technology patents.
The last decade has seen a wave of research suggesting consumer behavior can often be determined entirely nonconsciously. For example, salesmen who subtly mimic a customer?s body language are found more persuasive; subliminal exposure to high- or low-end brands can automatically change consumer?s shopping goals.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF, has launched a lawsuit against Apple. WARF?s lawsuit alleges that the iPhone maker infringes on a patent held by the University of Wisconsin – Madison, US Patent No. 5,781,752.
trollAnna Bialkowska via FlickrCalled patent trolls or non-practising entities (NPE), companies that make most of their money from licensing patents don?t have the best reputation. WARF is listed as #5.
A new project based in Madison aims to root out software vulnerabilities that can leave the door open for viruses, website hacking or other forms of cybercrime, estimated as a $100 billion industry. The SWAMP, or the Software Assurance Marketplace, is a collaboration of the private, nonprofit Morgridge Institute for Research along with UW-Madison, Indiana University and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit against Apple claiming the company?s signature A7 chip infringes upon a WARF patent, according to CNET.
A University of Wisconsin, Madison physics lab will close on April 5, after a decision from the Department of Energy came down in late January.
The organization that manages patents for the University of Wisconsin is filing a lawsuit against Apple accusing the company of using a patented invention in its latest iPhone and mobile devices.
Swedenborg and Ronning are members of two teams from UW-Madison that have been chosen to make presentations in regional competitions in March for the Hult Prize, a contest that draws more than 10,000 applicants from over 150 countries.
Silatronix got its start when two University of Wisconsin professors, both considered experts in their fields, happened to run into each other one day in 2007.
Unity Health Insurance said Thursday morning that a missing hard drive could compromise patient information for more than 40,000 members.Â
There?s a reason why President Barack Obama called out Rebecca Blank, chancellor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, when he spoke at GE?s gas engines plant in Waukesha on Jan. 30.
A team of four engineering students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is among 300 teams chosen from a field of 10,000 applicants to compete for the $1 million, winner-take-all Hult Prize.
Students (and plenty of professors) love snow days. But when they can?t get what they want, is that any reason for a blizzard of hate on Twitter?
Jadin said the UW-Madison is driving much of the local life sciences sector?s advance. He said the university is No. 4 nationwide in federal research funds.
Wisconsin farmers earned an estimated $3.75 billion last year, their second most profitable ever, thanks in large part to strong dairy and livestock sales, University of Wisconsin economists reported Wednesday.
The report is a key ingredient to the Wisconsin Agricultural Outlook Forum on Wednesday at UW-Madison.
It was December 2009 when Heidi Allstop, then a UW-Madison graduate student in psychology and business, needed someone to talk to about the stresses of student life and figured other students probably did, too.
For University of Wisconsin-Madison animal sciences professor Mark Cook, there?s an important factor to his long-term success: chickens.
The technology was developed in the lab of UW-Madison medical school professor Douglas McNeel and the patents have been licensed from WARF.
Entrepreneurs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison soon will have a new advocate on campus that should boost the number of ideas that are commercialized, which we think should, in turn, give the state?s economy a boost over time.
Stemina?s technology grew out of research by former UW-Madison stem cell researcher Gabriela Cezar.
When Rebecca Blank arrived at the University of Wisconsin-Madison last summer, she became chancellor of one of the largest academic research universities in the world, but one that has an uneven track record for commercializing that work.
Noted: Marquette University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and University of Wisconsin-Madison are among the state-based schools that received marketing materials, Burke said.
As scientists get closer to using embryonic stem cells in new treatments for blindness, spinal cord injuries and heart disease, a U.S. legal debate could determine who profits from that research. Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit advocacy group, wants an appeals court to invalidate a University of Wisconsin-Madison?s patent for stem cells derived from human embryos, saying it?s too similar to earlier research. The Santa Monica, California, group also says the U.S. Supreme Court?s June ruling limiting ownership rights of human genes should apply to stem cells, a potentially lucrative field for medical breakthroughs.
A record 167 businesses participated this year in the “green masters” program coordinated by the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That?s up 46% from last year.
Quick, name one of the oldest?if not the oldest?university tech transfer institutions in the country. If your brain automatically took you to a spot in New England or sunny California, think again. It?s the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF, which was founded nearly 90 years ago in 1925.
Teenagers spurning family time and conversation for Candy Crush during the holiday season is nearly as common a sight these days as turkey and baked ham.
Noted: A study by the Center On Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said the county living wage plan would result in $38 million in higher pay that would be spent in the Milwaukee area.
Madison stem cell company Cellular Dynamics International will work with the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences in North Carolina?s Research Triangle Park in creating tests to see if chemicals and drug candidates will result in toxic side effects.
Artificial Intelligence is defined as the ability for a machine such as a computer to perform functions analogous to learning and decision making. This past summer undergraduates Anjali Narayan-Chen and Liqi Xu taught the computer how to play Angry Birds. Angry birds is a popular game where using a slingshot, the player shoots wingless birds to kill pigs. And like other games, there are several levels of difficulty, different sizes and colors of birds, and different obstacles. With each game, new birds and special abilities can be activated by the player.
We?ve recently seen rehabilitative systems in which stroke victims use their thoughts either to move animated images of their paralyzed limbs, or to activate robotic devices that guide their limbs through the desired movements. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, however, have just announced an alternative approach. Their device acts as an intermediary between the brain and a non-responsive hand, receiving signals from the one and transmitting them to the other.
Campus entrepreneurism: A decade ago, it was difficult to find organized entrepreneurial education programs on Wisconsin campuses, the exceptions being the Weinert Center of Entrepreneurship at UW-Madison and the Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship at Marquette University. Today, such programs are relatively widespread and popular. At the UW-Whitewater, for example, the “Launch Pad” is a student business incubator. At the UW-Madison, a dormitory floor has been set aside for self-identified entrepreneurs. This campus fad won?t soon fade.
Campus entrepreneurism: A decade ago, it was difficult to find organized entrepreneurial education programs on Wisconsin campuses, the exceptions being the Weinert Center of Entrepreneurship at UW-Madison and the Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship at Marquette University.
Unhappy state legislators clamoring for more deliberate strategies tied to economic growth…
A new program to help prepare women and minorities start their own businesses is being offered by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and the UW-Madison Small Business Development Center
Cities seeking to be hubs of innovation ? in other words cities where smart, creative people want to be in the 21st century ? require collaborative partnerships. And if those partnerships include a major research institution and a world renowned patenting, licensing and investing organization all the better.
Admissions for one of the most-watched educational programs in the country opened last week in Wisconsin.
Despite widespread skepticism about whether or not the digitalization of America?s dialogue can advance modern thought, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Dietram Scheufele said there are only three common behaviors that, if corrected, could transform the current state of polarizing disagreements online into beneficial conversations.
As debate about the monitoring of online activities continues in the public sphere, a review of the University of Wisconsin?s information system privacy policies found administrators can only access student email after a written request is approved.
