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Computer Science News

The Center for Teaching Excellence recognizes top Rice instructors as determined by alumni votes

Six CS faculty members have received awards via the AI, Data, and Computing Seed Funding Initiative

CS Assistant Teaching Professor recognized by her students as an outstanding teacher

Taxa4Meta represents a new “best practices” approach for more accurate diagnoses

Flood of genome data hinders efforts to ID bacteria

Flood of genome data hinders efforts to ID bacteria Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018

Rice U. scientist's study finds growth of genomic databases affects species accuracy


Rice community mourns loss of Tony Gorry

Rice community mourns loss of Tony Gorry Monday, Oct. 29, 2018

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.


 Computer scientist Vardi named University Professor

Computer scientist Vardi named University Professor Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018

Logic and computation expert receives Rice’s highest academic honor.


Shrivastava,  Baraniuk get NSF grant for machine learning

Shrivastava, Baraniuk get NSF grant for machine learning Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018

Rice University engineers have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to extend the foundations of Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra.


Rice U.’s Anshumali Shrivastava makes Science News’ top 10

Rice U.’s Anshumali Shrivastava makes Science News’ top 10 Wednesday, Sep. 26, 2018

Computer scientist named to magazine’s SN 10 list of young scientists to watch


'Reconnect' wins hackathon

'Reconnect' wins hackathon Monday, Sep. 24, 2018

A web platform that connects families after natural disasters won the first-place prize in this year’s HackRice.


Parsons wins Technical Leadership Award

Parsons wins Technical Leadership Award Saturday, Sep. 15, 2018

Rebecca Parsons (Ph.D. ’92) wins the 2018 Technical Leadership Abie Award given by Anitab.org.


Kavraki, Vardi get NSF Grant for human-robot collaboration

Kavraki, Vardi get NSF Grant for human-robot collaboration Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018

Kravaki and Vardi have been awarded a NSF grant to develop a novel framework for human-robot collaboration.


Quantum bugs, meet your new swatter

Quantum bugs, meet your new swatter Monday, Aug. 20, 2018

Rice University scientist leads development of efficient method to characterize quantum computers


ShareBackup could keep data in the fast lane

ShareBackup could keep data in the fast lane Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018

Rice University lab develops circuit-switching tech to help data centers recover from failures