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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Wallach among recipients of Rice's first COVID-19 research grants Mon, 04/20/2020 - 22:43
Diagnostics, detection, better masks and voter safety among initial targets.
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Treangen co-organizes international symposium on COVID-19 Mon, 04/20/2020 - 11:15
On April 17, the COV-IRT virtual event maxed out registration of 1,000.
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Griffin, Nakhleh receive George R. Brown Awards for Superior Teaching Wed, 04/15/2020 - 11:22
Administered by the Center for Teaching Excellence, the awards recognize top Rice instructors as determined by the votes of alumni.
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Improving immunotherapy outcomes with personalized treatments Fri, 04/03/2020 - 11:25
Didier Devaurs, a former postdoctoral researcher in computer science reports promising computational work in cancer research.
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Larry Ciscon is a serial entrepreneur in Houston Tue, 03/31/2020 - 21:05
Larry Ciscon's CS Startups
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How a professional master's degree gave this alumna career options Mon, 03/23/2020 - 11:28
After quarantine, Wenxing Qiu '19 is back to coding at Schlumberger.
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How one professor moved 219 students from the classroom to online Thu, 03/19/2020 - 11:30
ELEC 220 is a required course for all ECE and computer science majors at Rice University.
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How Rice gave Yang Wu the confidence to try new things Mon, 03/09/2020 - 21:21
Yang Wu's advice on being successful in CS
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Deep learning rethink overcomes major obstacle in AI industry Mon, 03/02/2020 - 11:31
SLIDE is first algorithm for training deep neural nets faster on CPUs than GPUs.
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Kavraki receives Robotics and Automation Society Pioneer Award Thu, 02/27/2020 - 11:33
Rice computer science professor recognized for her fundamental contributions to robot design.