UW-Madison: Class aims to birth software companies at UW-Madison
CONTACT: Paul Barford, (608) 262-6609, pb@cs.wisc.edu; Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, (608) 263-7764, remzi@cs.wisc.edu, (both prefer email for first contact)
MADISON - Paul Barford, a UW-Madison professor of computer science, has a proposition, and he's got five minutes to make it.
He's consciously mimicking the "product pitch" that entrepreneurs make before venture capitalists, except his audience is undergraduates in a class on...
UW-Madison: To honor seven outstanding engineering alumni
Contact: Renee Meiller, (608) 262-2481, meiller@engr.wisc.edu
MADISON - The Disney-Pixar movie "Toy Story" is part of Patrick Hanrahan's life story.
Hanrahan, who now is the Cannon Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, was among the first employees at Pixar Animation Studios, where he is credited with developing the RenderMan software used to create several top animated films.
Long before...
UW Family Business Center: November program — What happened to the middle?
Presented by Scott Klug, Foley & Lardner and Larry LaRocco, LaRocco & Associates, Inc.
What happened to the middle? It seems like it might make headlines these days. Shortly after their election a Republican Congressman from Wisconsin and a Democrat from Idaho became fast friends. When they were first elected 20 years ago it was a different era in American...
