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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Computer science taught Navy officer to solve problems at sea Wed, 01/06/2021 - 12:35
Emma Gray '17 says RCEL boosted her self-confidence and ability to lead.
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Rice CS PhD student wins Ken Kennedy Institute fellowship Thu, 12/10/2020 - 13:27
The Andrew Ladd Memorial Excellence in Computer Science Fellowship was awarded to Jiarong Xing
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Three-Time Rice Alumnus Aims To Give Back To His Alma Mater Wed, 11/25/2020 - 11:29
Vinay Pai BA '88 BS '88 MS '91 now serves as a senior vice president of engineering with Bill.com.
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Kyrillidis wins IDEA grant for quantum computing Thu, 11/19/2020 - 10:10
Award supports high-risk, high-reward hybrid classical-quantum computing initiative
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CS major places first in mathematics, CS division at Sigma Xi conference Mon, 11/16/2020 - 12:41
Bikrant Das Sharma's winning ML project suggests correlation between CO2 emissions and gross domestic product.
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Keren Zhou awarded ACM-IEEE Fellowship in High Performance Computing Fri, 10/16/2020 - 11:23
Zhou is recognized for his work developing performance tools for GPU-accelerated applications
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Ken Kennedy Institute awards four computer science fellows Thu, 10/15/2020 - 22:21
Program aims to attract graduate students to Rice in the fields of computational science and engineering, high performance computing and data analytics
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Wallach shares security expertise in build up to 2020 election Fri, 10/02/2020 - 15:41
Wallach’s work on election security has recently been covered in Wired Magazine, CNBC and more.
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First-ever virtual HackRice welcomes participants from around the world Mon, 09/21/2020 - 13:05
Student projects tackled remote learning, data science, biomedical and finance
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Salvatore Testa: Mobile SDKs and Startups Wed, 08/26/2020 - 19:52
Rice CS alumnus shares his experience with Square and making the move to new startup Persona.