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Computer Science News

Taxa4Meta represents a new “best practices” approach for more accurate diagnoses

Dean of engineering recognized for his distinguished and continuing achievements in computational biology

Bikrant Das Sharma places first in AAAS Student E-Poster Competition

Fulbright MDS students share how EPMP nurtures their career aspirations in a culturally rich environment

Moshe Y. Vardi

University of Gothenburg awards Vardi honorary doctorate Friday, Apr. 24, 2020

University Professor recognized for his “contributions to the usage of logic in various fields in computer science."


Wallach among recipients of Rice's first COVID-19 research grants

Wallach among recipients of Rice's first COVID-19 research grants Monday, Apr. 20, 2020

Diagnostics, detection, better masks and voter safety among initial targets.


Todd Treangen

Treangen co-organizes international symposium on COVID-19 Monday, Apr. 20, 2020

On April 17, the COV-IRT virtual event maxed out registration of 1,000.


Griffin, Nakhleh receive George R. Brown Awards for Superior Teaching

Griffin, Nakhleh receive George R. Brown Awards for Superior Teaching Wednesday, Apr. 15, 2020

Administered by the Center for Teaching Excellence, the awards recognize top Rice instructors as determined by the votes of alumni.


Didier Devaurs

Improving immunotherapy outcomes with personalized treatments Friday, Apr. 3, 2020

Didier Devaurs, a former postdoctoral researcher in computer science reports promising computational work in cancer research.


Larry Ciscon

Larry Ciscon is a serial entrepreneur in Houston Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2020

Larry Ciscon's CS Startups


Wenxing Qiu

How a professional master's degree gave this alumna career options Monday, Mar. 23, 2020

After quarantine, Wenxing Qiu '19 is back to coding at Schlumberger.


How one professor moved 219 students from the classroom to online

How one professor moved 219 students from the classroom to online Thursday, Mar. 19, 2020

ELEC 220 is a required course for all ECE and computer science majors at Rice University.


Yang Wu

How Rice gave Yang Wu the confidence to try new things Monday, Mar. 9, 2020

Yang Wu's advice on being successful in CS


Rice University's Anshumali Shrivastava led a team that demonstrated how to implement deep learning technology without specialized acceleration hardware like graphics processing units.

Deep learning rethink overcomes major obstacle in AI industry Monday, Mar. 2, 2020

SLIDE is first algorithm for training deep neural nets faster on CPUs than GPUs.