New training method improves visual grounding
Wil Thomason brings strong background in task and motion planning to team of experts at one of the nation’s leading robotics institutions
Vicky Yao uses NLP, novel procedural knowledge extraction paradigm to track trends in biomedical literature
Over 100 Rice students worked for a year on the award-winning hybrid rocket “Archimedes”
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ROBE Array could let small companies access popular form of AI Mon, 08/29/2022 - 15:30
Low-memory technique for deep-learning recommendation systems won Outstanding Paper at MLSys2022
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NSF grant supports ballot integrity research Mon, 08/29/2022 - 13:13
Computer scientists will use machine learning to read hand-marked ballots
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Meet Rice CS’ new faculty: Nai-Hui Chia Mon, 08/22/2022 - 16:45
Chia specializes in quantum algorithms, quantum complexity, and quantum cryptography
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Meet Rice CS’ New Professor: Vladimir Braverman Mon, 08/22/2022 - 15:43
Braverman specializes in algorithms and their applications for machine learning, computer networks, and medical imaging
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Biomedical, data science training wins new $4.16M grant Mon, 08/22/2022 - 11:13
PI Lydia Kavraki is the Program Director for the National Library of Medicine Training Program
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Three new faculty members join Rice Computer Science Mon, 08/22/2022 - 07:28
New hires include experts in quantum computing, efficient sublinear algorithms, machine learning, and high-performance computing
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Rice, NASA extend Space Act Agreement Fri, 08/19/2022 - 12:38
Previous collaborations, including Lydia Kavraki's Robonaut program, were key to negotiating the extension.
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Four Rice CS grad students named National GEM Consortium fellows Wed, 08/17/2022 - 09:59
CS Fellows are sponsored by Adobe, Intel, IBM and Johns Hopkins
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Rice CS team accelerates genome variant analysis, processing SARS-COV-2 data in minutes Tue, 08/09/2022 - 21:17
PhD student Tiancheng Xu presents new hardware accelerator with advisors Alan Cox and Scott Rixner at FCCM22
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CDC names Houston Health Dept, Rice a wastewater epidemiology Center of Excellence Mon, 08/08/2022 - 10:06
Rice CS' Todd Treangen & CEE's Lauren Stadler developed and maintain a weekly viral genome analysis to screen for SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern