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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

Todd Treangen standing outside on the Rice University campus

Squeegee helps identify contaminants in microbiome samples Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022

Treangen Lab and BCM researchers develop new tool for microbiome analysis


Researchers Anderson and Liu stand outside on the Rice University campus

Rice CS Researchers Build Performance Analysis Tools for Exascale Supercomputers Monday, Dec. 12, 2022

Professor Mellor-Crummey and PhD students Anderson and Liu begin parallel analysis as supercomputer is being built


Todd Treangen

How computer science will help prevent the next pandemic Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022

Engineers in their own words: Rice computer scientist Todd Treangen


Chamzas and Quintero Pena

Robotics researchers develop open-source motion planning benchmarking tool Monday, Dec. 5, 2022

Kavraki Lab helps standardize robot motion planning algorithm evaluations


Lydia Kavraki sitting in her lab

IEEE honors Lydia Kavraki with Frances E. Allen Medal Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022

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


T. S. Eugene Ng Named IEEE Fellow

T. S. Eugene Ng Named IEEE Fellow Monday, Nov. 28, 2022

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


Data science vs Data engineering

Data Scientists vs Data Engineers: What's the Difference? Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022

Data engineers build the infrastructure that enables Data scientists to analyze data at scale and draw inferences. Learn about each role’s skills, jobs & education.


An illustration comparing big data with basic data analytics and visualization

Data Science vs Data Analytics: What Are the Similarities & Differences? Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022

The main differences between data science and data analytics involve the methods and tools for working with data, as well as career paths, titles & salaries.


omputer Scientist working on complex Software Engineering and Systems

Computer Science vs Software Engineering: What’s the Difference? Friday, Nov. 18, 2022

Debating Software Engineering vs. Computer Science? Though related, Software Engineering is a subset of Computer Science, the holistic study of computers. Read more now.


Rice Engineering faculty members stand in a group with other CAREER Award winners

A bright future Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022

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