Treangen was honored for strengthening Rice Engineering’s ties with the TMC, for his COVID-19 research, and teaching excellence.
The Center for Teaching Excellence recognizes top Rice instructors as determined by alumni votes
Parthasarathy Ranganathan recognized for ‘design and deployment of efficient hardware video accelerators for cloud’
Six CS faculty members have received awards via the AI, Data, and Computing Seed Funding Initiative
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Gaurav Banga: Accidental Entrepreneur Tue, 03/19/2019 - 21:10
Rice University CS alumnus Gaurav Banga did not intend to become a serial startup guy. He said, "I became an entrepreneur when I discovered a problem I couldn’t put down.”
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Annie Christian Klemp: Embracing Challenges Fri, 03/15/2019 - 21:11
Rice University CS alumna Annie Christian Klemp believes the best solutions are created by diverse teams.
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Rice engineering ranks high in degrees to women Mon, 03/04/2019 - 19:09
Rice placed 15th among 749 four-year private nonprofit institutions in the US for the number of bachelor’s degrees in engineering it awarded to women.
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Vardi leading new initiative on technology, culture and society Mon, 02/18/2019 - 19:11
Negative impacts of technology will be addressed with research, education, outreach.
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Jayson Carter: Learn Something New Wed, 02/13/2019 - 13:14
Rice CS alumnus joins Amazon Media Group as a software engineer
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Vardi: computing crisis calls for changes in public policy, not in ethics Thu, 01/24/2019 - 19:13
Vardi announced a new Rice initiative devoted to technology, culture and society.
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Technology is driving the future, but who is doing the steering? Wed, 01/16/2019 - 19:14
Moshe Vardi, professor in Computational Engineering, computer science and director of the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology believes that we are currently facing a public policy crisis in the tech industry.
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Keith Cooper named CAAM chair Thu, 01/10/2019 - 19:19
Keith D. Cooper, the L. John and Ann H. Doerr Chair in Computational Engineering, professor of computer science (CS) and of electrical and computer engineering, has been named chair of the computational and applied mathematics (CAAM) department.
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Kavraki inducted to the Academy of Athens Thu, 12/20/2018 - 19:30
Lydia Kavraki has been elected as a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens, the premier scientific society in Greece and the world’s oldest academy.
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RemixCS offers CS training to local high school Fri, 12/07/2018 - 21:13
RemixCS is introducing high school students to careers in CS.