The School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences at UW-Madison: Past, Present, and Future

Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Grace Wahba Professor of Computer Sciences at UW-Madison. Remzi is a widely renowned scholar, dedicated teacher, and a special advisor to the Provost on Computing and serves as the Director of the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences. He co-leads a group with Professor Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau. Together, they have graduated 32 Ph.D. students and won numerous best-paper and test-of-time awards; many of their innovations are used by commercial systems, and their group is considered one of the leading storage-systems groups in the world. He and Andrea's operating systems book, "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces" (www.ostep.org) is downloaded millions of times yearly and used at numerous institutions worldwide; despite being freely available, it has been the top-selling book on Amazon in operating system theory for many years.

Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau will present information about CDIS, the newest and fastest growing school at UW-Madison. His presentation will discuss its origins, current projects and programs, and new directions, in particular as related to the ongoing “AI moment” in the world.