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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Houston universities team up to boost minorities in academia Tue, 08/13/2019 - 13:52
NSF grant to Rice, UH, Texas Southern will help future science engineering professors.
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Monica Pal: The Journey is the Reward Fri, 08/09/2019 - 22:01
Rice CS alumna Monica Pal is the founder and CEO of 4iQ.
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Kyrillidis awarded NSF grant for Quantum Computing Thu, 08/08/2019 - 13:54
Kyrillidis awarded NSF grant.
![Rice University CS alumnus and ExtraHop software engineer Matthew Schurr.](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-08/MatthewSchurr-chair-1920x1080.jpg.jpeg?itok=YT7JgYL2)
Matthew Schurr: Making an Impact and Interesting Problems Mon, 08/05/2019 - 22:14
Rice University alumnus Matthew Schurr (B.S. in CS ‘16) develops and implements tools for information technology (IT) professionals to extract and analyze data within their network infrastructures.
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Helping Robots solve Ambiguous Requests Wed, 07/31/2019 - 11:51
Juan David Hernandez-Vega's work on helping robots interpret human requests
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NAE symposium selects Shrivastava Tue, 07/30/2019 - 13:55
Srivastava to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s 25th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.
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NAE symposium selects Shrivastava Tue, 07/30/2019 - 12:19
Shrivastava selected to be part in the National Academy of Engineering’s 25th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.
![Konstantinos Mamouras Rice Computer Science](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-08/Mamouras.jpg.jpeg?itok=mbwp_w12)
Mamouras and StreamQRE Mon, 07/29/2019 - 12:44
Mamouras proposed StreamQRE, a declarative query language that combines regular expressions, quantitative aggregation, and relational features.
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Pete Olson’s Uncommon Career Path Mon, 07/29/2019 - 12:42
U.S. Representative and Rice University alumnus Pete Olson said, “Rice CS taught me to reframe and reform questions, and thinking outside the box was very helpful as I hit roadblocks in my career."
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Teaching faculty earn promotions Mon, 07/15/2019 - 13:57
Four teaching professors in engineering promoted.