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Persona AI expands in the Ion as Rice and Ion District support growth of AI innovation

May 7, 2025

Persona AI, the Houston-based humanoid robotics startup that recently closed $25 million in pre-seed funding, is significantly expanding its operations at the Ion, the Houston innovation hub powered by Rice.

Medical Humanities Institute

Building better AI starts with asking better questions; Rice is doing just that

April 18, 2025

Humanities disciplines, especially medical humanities, shouldn’t just be consulted at the end of the development pipeline when systems are being evaluated for bias or misuse.

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Annual event showcases AI and high-performance computing advances in energy

February 17, 2025

Rice’s Ken Kennedy Institute will host its annual Energy HPC Conference Feb. 25-27.

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Rice experts featured in Emmy Award-winning documentary on AI impact, promise and risks

December 6, 2024

Rice researchers are featured in a Telemundo documentary on artificial intelligence that won a Lone Star Emmy Award.

Rice University’s Athletics Department and Office of Innovation have formed a strategic partnership with BeOne Sports, an innovative startup founded by Rice alumni that is pioneering advanced sports performance technology.

Rice partners with BeOne Sports to transform athlete performance with AI technology

October 8, 2024

Rice’s Athletics Department and Office of Innovation have formed a strategic partnership with BeOne Sports, an innovative startup founded by Rice alumni that is pioneering advanced sports performance technology.

Artificial intelligence

‘A natural fit’: Rice philosophy professor explains relationship between philosophy, technology

September 18, 2024

When Robert Howell contemplates the future of artificial intelligence, he foresees a world where an app might guide your moral decisions just as Google Maps helps you navigate a road trip.

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Rice expert available to discuss House bill on workforce and AI

September 17, 2024

Rice’s Fred Oswald is available to comment on the Workforce for AI Trust Act.

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Rice research could make weird AI images a thing of the past

September 13, 2024

Rice computer scientists have developed a way to improve the performance of artificial intelligence diffusion models.

 Pranavesh Panakkal, a postdoctoral researcher in civil and environmental engineering, analyzes data in Houston that senses road conditions during a flood situation.

Rice engineers develop AI system for real-time sensing of flooded roads

August 26, 2024

Rice engineers have developed an AI machine learning system for real-time sensing of flooded roads through existing data sources and reporting mechanisms.

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ChatGPT could help people with creativity in everyday tasks, study says

August 20, 2024

ChatGPT, the generative artificial intelligence technology developed by OpenAI, could help humans with daily, creative tasks — even tasks typically thought to require the human ability to “read between the lines,” according to new research by the University of Houston and Rice University. Its capability has proven to be superior compared to traditional Google search or even human brainstorming without any technical assistance, the study authors argue.

AI-generated data

Breaking MAD: Generative AI could break the internet

July 30, 2024

Rice researchers have found that training successive generations of generative artificial intelligence models on synthetic data gives rise to self-consuming feedback loops.

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Brazilian students explore AI and infrastructure resiliency at Rice amid Hurricane Beryl

July 26, 2024

A group of undergraduate students and faculty from Brazil spent a week at Rice exploring the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in sustainability and natural disaster resiliency practices as part of a knowledge and cultural exchange program funded through the 100,000 Strong in the Americas initiative.

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Poetry meets AI: Nick Flynn and David Rokeby premiere groundbreaking collaboration at the Moody

April 17, 2024

The groundbreaking collaboration between poet Nick Flynn and media artist David Rokeby unveiled a fusion of poetry and artificial intelligence (AI) at an April 12 event at Rice University’s Moody Center for the Arts.

Moshe Vardi

Rice’s Moshe Vardi awarded honorary title by the University of Calabria

March 28, 2024

For the 10th time, Moshe Vardi, University Professor at Rice and an expert in computational logic, artificial intelligence and databases, has been awarded an honorary title by a university outside the United States, this time by the University of Calabria, Italy.

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U.S.-Latin America ‘policy lab’ could leverage AI as arena for international collaboration

March 14, 2024

Rice experts weighed in on a public hearing of the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC) on the risks, opportunities and potential ways to leverage artificial intelligence as an arena for international collaboration between the U.S. and Latin America.

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