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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Vardi is named American Mathematical Society Fellow Wed, 11/07/2018 - 12:30
Vardi has been named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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CS Department announces Podcast Fri, 11/02/2018 - 12:32
Unconventional Computing is a new Podcast produced by the CS Department
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Flood of genome data hinders efforts to ID bacteria Tue, 10/30/2018 - 12:38
Rice U. scientist's study finds growth of genomic databases affects species accuracy
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Rice community mourns loss of Tony Gorry Mon, 10/29/2018 - 12:40
A member of the National Academy of Medicine, Gorry was a beloved teacher and mentor, prolific writer and nationally recognized scholar in management, medicine and computer science.
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Computer scientist Vardi named University Professor Wed, 10/03/2018 - 12:44
Logic and computation expert receives Rice’s highest academic honor.
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Shrivastava, Baraniuk get NSF grant for machine learning Wed, 10/03/2018 - 12:41
Rice University engineers have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to extend the foundations of Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra.
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Rice U.’s Anshumali Shrivastava makes Science News’ top 10 Wed, 09/26/2018 - 12:52
Computer scientist named to magazine’s SN 10 list of young scientists to watch
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'Reconnect' wins hackathon Mon, 09/24/2018 - 12:54
A web platform that connects families after natural disasters won the first-place prize in this year’s HackRice.
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Parsons wins Technical Leadership Award Sat, 09/15/2018 - 12:55
Rebecca Parsons (Ph.D. ’92) wins the 2018 Technical Leadership Abie Award given by Anitab.org.
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Kavraki, Vardi get NSF Grant for human-robot collaboration Wed, 08/22/2018 - 12:58
Kravaki and Vardi have been awarded a NSF grant to develop a novel framework for human-robot collaboration.