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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How computer science will help prevent the next pandemic Tue, 12/06/2022 - 20:37
Engineers in their own words: Rice computer scientist Todd Treangen
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Robotics researchers develop open-source motion planning benchmarking tool Mon, 12/05/2022 - 16:04
Kavraki Lab helps standardize robot motion planning algorithm evaluations
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IEEE honors Lydia Kavraki with Frances E. Allen Medal Wed, 11/30/2022 - 12:43
Kavraki was recognized “for foundational probabilistic algorithms and randomized search methods that have broad impact in robotic motion planning and computational biology.”
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T. S. Eugene Ng Named IEEE Fellow Mon, 11/28/2022 - 16:19
Ng has been recognized for contributions to circuit-switched innovations in datacenter network and scalable methods for internet delay estimation
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A bright future Thu, 11/17/2022 - 21:13
A record eight engineering faculty, including three CS, receive NSF CAREER Awards
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Rice researchers identify novel method for predicting how well peptides bind to molecules critical for immunotherapy treatment Mon, 11/14/2022 - 16:05
Kavraki Lab helps scientists improve personalized immunology treatment plans for cancer, other diseases
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OptimaLab optimizes problem-solving algorithms Wed, 11/09/2022 - 12:34
The team, led by Anastasios Kyrillidis, specializes in increasing the efficiency of very complicated calculations
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Rice CS PhD Student Mohammadamin Edrisi Wins Honorable Mention at ISMB Tue, 11/08/2022 - 13:36
Edrisi, Nakhleh and team’s research on new scalable methods for single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) also appears in the journal Bioinformatics
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Ethics Curriculum Evolves in Rice Computer Science Department Mon, 11/07/2022 - 19:36
Rodrigo Ferreira teaches students how to examine fairness issues and plot solutions
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Kavraki and O’Malley named to list of world’s top women scientists in robotics, engineering and science Tue, 10/25/2022 - 20:16
The announcement was made at the iROS Kyoto 2022 Conference in Japan