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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'Exciting time' of growth for Rice Computer Science Thu, 11/07/2019 - 13:32
Increased enrollment, new faculty and expanding research highlight department's bright future.
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PhD alumnus' paper selected for conference anniversary Wed, 11/06/2019 - 13:34
Rice CS PhD alumnus Kuldeep Meel's paper selected for conference anniversary
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A.I. and machine learning at Rice: Much more than science fiction Tue, 11/05/2019 - 13:36
Rice researchers are changing public perception by making artificial intelligence less flashy and more practical.
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Stormy Peters: the Open Source Advocate Mon, 11/04/2019 - 13:42
As the popularity of Linux and open source software was rising, Stormy Peters was growing frustrated by the number of people working on similar solutions. She proposed putting GNOME on HP computers to free up people and resources for other problems.
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Developing the tools to handle big data Mon, 11/04/2019 - 13:38
Eugene Ng has devised numerous strategies that enable networks to adapt their structures dynamically.
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Daphne Wert Strasert: CS and Monsters Thu, 10/31/2019 - 13:47
Rice CS alumna Daphne Strasert is a published horror author.
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Rice Computer Science invites applications for faculty positions Wed, 10/30/2019 - 13:40
Positions are tenured and tenure-track at all ranks, and start in July 2020.
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Akshaya Srivatsa: Growing your CS Career Mon, 10/28/2019 - 20:36
AK Srivatsa, once a PhD student in Rice's Computer Science Department, now Bolt's director of engineering.
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Predicting 20 billion connected electronic devices by next year Tue, 10/22/2019 - 13:42
Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology hosts third annual Rice Data Science Conference.
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Syd Polk Returns to Software Engineering Sun, 10/20/2019 - 10:52
Rice CS alumnus Syd Polk is now an Indeed software engineer.