For a long time, there was that box of photos tucked away in one of the administrative offices. Then it got shuffled when we moved around offices, and it got put into that long dark …
Sara J Nagreen
The computing history you didn’t know about
In 1952, Fred Gruenberger, a supervisor in the Math Department computing lab(!), published the “Computing Manual” through University of Wisconsin Press. It was the first documents to show how computers could be used to do …
John B. Parkinson, Professor from 1867-1872, participated in the California Gold Rush
One of the first professors in the Math Department was, in his youth, one of the many Americans lured to the wild west of California during the Gold Rush. This article, from 1922, has Professor …
In Memoriam: William (aka Bill, “Wild Bill”) James Laubenheimer, M.S. in both Math and CS, 1979
William (aka Bill, “Wild Bill”) James Laubenheimer August 19, 1956 – July 19, 2023 Bill grew up in Milwaukee, WI, graduated from Carroll College at age 19, and attended UW Madison where he received double …
Raymond Damadian, Creator of the 1st MRI, dies at 86
Dr. Raymond Damadian, who built the first magnetic resonance imaging scanner, which revolutionized doctors’ ability to diagnose cancer and other illnesses — but who, to his dismay, saw the Nobel Prize for the science behind …
Robert San Soucie
Robert L. San Soucie, PhD, died March 13, 2017, just shy of his 90th birthday. He was born in Adams, Massachusetts to Leo and Ora (Sturm) San Soucie. He is survived by his wife, Pat, …
Douglas Strand
Douglas John Strand died Saturday, April 28, 2018, at his home in Edgewood, Md., at the age of 70. Born in Madison, he was the son of the late Louis and Theodora (Thysse) Strand. Doug …
Walking along the outside of Van Vleck Hall
Ted Frost (Ph.D., 1969, Wainger) wrote in 2017, “In my earlier years of graduate work, I expended some of my energy by inventing walking along the outside of Van Vleck Hall on the 7th floor, …
1964 Summer Institute for HBCU
Douglas McLeod (Ph.D., 1972, Harvey, M.A., 1965) provided this picture of a 1964 Summer Institute for faculty from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) to refresh their skills. This was TA’ed and staffed by various …