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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Moshe Vardi to give prestigious annual Vienna Gödel Lecture Mon, 05/03/2021 - 11:46
Technology is Driving the Future, But Who Is Steering?
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New engineering and science building plans taking shape Wed, 04/28/2021 - 09:31
Construction begins this summer on 266,000-square-foot building replacing Abercrombie.
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Shrivastava wins 2021 Young Faculty Research Award Thu, 04/22/2021 - 19:23
Given by the School of Engineering for outstanding research achievements in machine learning, deep learning, big data and graph mining.
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Jermaine named permanent chair of Computer Science Sun, 03/07/2021 - 23:18
Will step down as Director of Data Science effective July 1, 2021.
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Bioinformatics tool accurately tracks synthetic DNA Fri, 02/26/2021 - 11:27
The Treangen Lab challenges — and beats — deep learning.
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Rice CS Alumna Finds Life After Facebook—Teaching and Researching in Germany Tue, 02/09/2021 - 11:47
Yiting Xia (PhD, 2018) shares her experience with a familiar question, academia vs. industry.
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Rice CS undergrad focuses on civic tech with Civic Digital Fellowship Sun, 01/24/2021 - 13:11
Vinay Tummarakota (‘23) developed machine learning tools for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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Rice CS launches undergraduate data science summer program in collaboration with Google Fri, 01/15/2021 - 15:45
The 10-week paid REU positions offer students the opportunity to conduct cutting-edge research alongside faculty mentors
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Rice CS alumnus named to IEEE's 'AI’s 10 to Watch' list Mon, 01/11/2021 - 19:14
Kuldeep Meel '17 is the Sung Kah Kay Assistant Professor of CS at the National University of Singapore.
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A data science approach to reducing academic achievement gaps Thu, 01/07/2021 - 16:16
Three computer science undergraduates worked as part of Team OpenStax for the D2K Showcase