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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Xia “Ben” Hu and Rice CS’ DATA Lab win Outstanding Paper at ICML 2022 Mon, 08/08/2022 - 09:24
G-Mixup graph augmentation substantially improves graph neural networks
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Toward robots working in the real world: Failure makes planning better Thu, 08/04/2022 - 11:40
Kavraki Lab's Tianyang Pan and Rahul Shome present on robotics planning tasks and motions at ICRA
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Next-generation networks with fast changes and increased security Thu, 07/28/2022 - 09:34
NSF grants Rice CS and partners $3M to develop runtime programmable networks
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VardiFest22 honors Moshe Vardi’s career and accomplishments Tue, 07/26/2022 - 13:21
Colleagues, researchers & former students will present during the 2-day workshop held in collaboration with the Federated Logic Conference
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NSF grant links Computer Science, Statistics, and Phylogenetics at Rice University Thu, 07/21/2022 - 19:50
The research will develop novel techniques to scale MCMC to much larger data sets
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SARS-Arena reveals hidden hooks in virus Wed, 07/13/2022 - 18:59
Program identifies conserved SARS-CoV-2 peptides that could be used to develop vaccines
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Emu stands tall at detecting bacteria species Thu, 06/30/2022 - 10:30
Treangen Lab program using common gene to profile microbial communities featured in Nature Methods journal
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Teaching Computers to Answer Questions about Images Fri, 06/24/2022 - 15:08
Cascante-Bonilla and Ordóñez introduce SimVQA at CVPR 2022
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SeqScreen can reveal ‘concerning’ DNA Tue, 06/21/2022 - 13:42
Open-source program IDs synthetic, naturally occurring gene sequences
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Rice CS' Xia "Ben" Hu named D2K director Tue, 06/21/2022 - 11:05
Hu succeeds Genevera Allen, founder of the data science education lab