Computer Science News

Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022

How computer science will help prevent the next pandemic

Engineers in their own words: Rice computer scientist Todd Treangen

Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022

IEEE honors Lydia Kavraki with Frances E. Allen Medal

Kavraki was recognized “for foundational probabilistic algorithms and randomized search methods that have broad impact in robotic motion planning and computational biology.”

Monday, Nov. 28, 2022

T. S. Eugene Ng Named IEEE Fellow

Ng has been recognized for contributions to circuit-switched innovations in datacenter network and scalable methods for internet delay estimation

Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022

A bright future

A record eight engineering faculty, including three CS, receive NSF CAREER Awards

Next-generation networks with fast changes and increased security Thursday, Jul. 28, 2022

NSF grants Rice CS and partners $3M to develop runtime programmable networks

VardiFest22 honors Moshe Vardi’s career and accomplishments Tuesday, Jul. 26, 2022

Colleagues, researchers & former students will present during the 2-day workshop held in collaboration with the Federated Logic Conference

NSF grant links Computer Science, Statistics, and Phylogenetics at Rice University Thursday, Jul. 21, 2022

The research will develop novel techniques to scale MCMC to much larger data sets

Four Kavraki Lab grad students standing outside at Rice University

SARS-Arena reveals hidden hooks in virus Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2022

Program identifies conserved SARS-CoV-2 peptides that could be used to develop vaccines

Emu stands tall at detecting bacteria species Thursday, Jun. 30, 2022

Treangen Lab program using common gene to profile microbial communities featured in Nature Methods journal

Data Scientist collaborating with Software Engineer at a company

Data Science vs Software Engineering: What's the Difference? Wednesday, Jun. 29, 2022

While data scientists extract and analyze data sets, software engineers develop systems and applications to meet user and business needs. Learn more from Rice.