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”
![Provost's NerdPack](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/feature.jpg.jpeg?itok=2ddEOeQu)
CS + Harvey: The Provost's “Nerd Pack” Fri, 10/27/2017 - 09:16
Rice CS students use their computer science skills to help the Rice community during Hurricane Harvey.
![HackRice 7 student team](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/HR7-Opening_0009-741.jpg.jpeg?itok=k18ec7US)
Alumni and Community Support Grow with HackRice Thu, 10/05/2017 - 09:25
Alumni and Community Support Grow with HackRice
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Large and Rich Student Hackathon Wed, 09/27/2017 - 11:24
HackRice 7, the seventh annual 48-hour event hosted by Rice University's Computer Science Club, attracted over 450 participants and almost $50,000 in donations.
![Anastasios "Tasos" Kyrillidis and Ang Chen](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/Anastasios-Ang.jpg.jpeg?itok=tqpYNs1t)
New Computer Science Faculty Members Fri, 09/01/2017 - 11:27
New CS faculty members Anastasios "Tasos" Kyrillidis and Ang Chen
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Two Rice CS Faculty Win 2017 ACM Awards Tue, 07/18/2017 - 11:30
Lydia Kavraki and Moshe Vardi won ACM awards in 2017
![Moshe Y. Vardi](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/article_moshe_04.jpg.jpeg?itok=NLVrLOpt)
Vardi receives second ACM Presidential Award Mon, 06/19/2017 - 11:40
CS Professor Moshe Vardi received the 2017 ACM Presidential Award, the only nominee to win the prestigious award twice (first time in 2008).
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Naomi Eigbe’s Passion for Human-Computer Interaction Mon, 05/15/2017 - 20:24
Naomi Eigbe combines her interest in psychology with CS
![CS graduating senior Lauren Khoo](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/LaurenKhoo2017Chahin-blurback-Drupal-745_0.jpg.jpeg?itok=CI0PJS8R)
Lauren Khoo Wins Chahin Award Fri, 05/12/2017 - 11:58
Lauren Khoo, a recent Rice University alumna, was named the recipient of the Computer Science Department's annual Jason Chahin Innovation and Excellence Award.
![CS students Philip Taffet and Ethan Perez](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/PhilipTaffet-EthanPerez-Merit2017-750.jpg.jpeg?itok=7yZusvKw)
Taffet, Perez Win 2017 Merit Awards Wed, 05/10/2017 - 12:00
Two upperclass Computer Science students were recently recognized for their academic excellence.
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Rice CS Researchers win Best Paper at ICDE17 Wed, 05/03/2017 - 09:17
A research team led by Rice University Computer Science professor Christopher Jermaine recently won the Best Paper award at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE17).