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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Big Data vs Data Science: What's the Difference? Fri, 03/18/2022 - 18:03
Extracting knowledge from data requires data scientists to manage and interpret insight from big data. Learn the differences between big data and data science.
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COVID-19 variants can’t hide from Variabel Mon, 03/14/2022 - 10:25
Treangen Lab develops program to find ‘low-frequency’ variants in sequence data
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Adam Zawierucha is developing products and communication skills Fri, 03/11/2022 - 18:39
CS and math major helped create the map app for Rice Public Art.
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Three Rice CS faculty researchers win NSF CAREER Awards Wed, 03/02/2022 - 16:43
Dautenhahn, Kyrillidis and Yao earn grants, which are among the most competitive and prestigious given by the federal agency.
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Vicky Yao wins CAREER Award Tue, 03/01/2022 - 10:06
Rice CS assistant professor will build tools to study DNA methylation
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Charles Jiang is building AI to empower software engineers Mon, 02/28/2022 - 20:24
Computer science Ph.D. student's research lies at the intersection of machine learning and program synthesis.
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Rice CS Senior Jasmine Manansala talks ‘Jeopardy!’ lessons learned, friendships forged after game show appearance Thu, 02/17/2022 - 15:14
Manansala's episode of The National College Championship aired February 8th
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Rice CS' Hu and Costilla-Reyes win highly competitive NSF Small Business Innovation Research grant Tue, 02/15/2022 - 17:20
The grant will help further develop their system for creating machine-learning models used in Internet of Things industrial hardware
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Now accepting applications for the REU Data Science summer research program Fri, 02/11/2022 - 11:28
The 10-week undergraduate internship offers unprecedented one-on-one access to faculty as they work together on cutting-edge research
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How Rice MCS student Taige Zhang is learning something new Wed, 02/09/2022 - 15:35
Zhang chose Rice to be a part of Houston's diverse community