Computer Science

Top Rice data science team shows heart in plan to save babies

Winning Data to Knowledge Lab project uses data science techniques to help save babies with congenital heart defects.

Bad news for fake news: Rice research helps combat social media misinformation

Improved use of machine learning can double throughput of real-time information filters, Rice researchers find.

Mitochondrial stress ‘ages’ astronauts

Astronauts appear to age faster in space, but understanding why could mitigate the effects for future long-distance travelers.

Rice names new round of IDEA winners

Six teams of Rice researchers have won backing from the InterDisciplinary Excellence Awards.

Once-discounted binding mechanism may be key to targeting viruses

Researchers detail subtle stabilizing effects in cells’ ability to recognize coronaviruses that compromise the immune system. The discovery could lead to new targets to prevent disease.

Rice researchers top two categories in ‘Create the Future’ contest

Rice University was a double winner in the annual Create the Future Design Contest, an international competition in its 19th year.

Election security expert to address voting issues in Rice webinar

Dan Wallach, a Rice University professor of computer science and of electrical and computer engineering, will hold a Zoom webinar on “Adventures in Voting Security Research” Oct. 15 at 4 p.m.

Deep learning gives drug design a boost

A computational tool created at Rice University may help pharmaceutical companies expand their ability to investigate the safety of drugs.

Rice backs studies of race, anti-racism

The Race and Anti-Racism Research Fund at Rice University has awarded grants to eight professors to develop better understanding of how race, racism and racial injustice affect society.

Largest gift in Rice history establishes The Welch Institute

The Robert A. Welch Foundation announces the largest single gift in the history of Rice University, $100 million, to establish The Welch Institute for world-leading advanced materials research.

Researchers set sights on theory of deep learning

Rice's Richard Baraniuk and Moshe Vardi are part of a multiuniversity team of engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians and statisticians tapped by the Office of Naval Research to develop a principled theory of deep learning.

NSF backs first community platform for smarter wireless

Rice University researchers, with National Science Foundation backing, develop a community platform, 3DML, to accelerate machine learning for next-generation wireless networks and mobile applications.

Rice computer science lab collaborates on design of novel SARS-CoV-2 test

Rice computer scientists are collaborating with molecular diagnostics company Great Basin Scientific to streamline the development of COVID-19 testing.

Small quake clusters can’t hide from AI

A deep learning algorithm developed at Rice University analyzes data from a deadly landslide in Greenland to show how it may someday predict seismic events like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Rice researchers helping to ready vote-by-mail system for November

Rice University researchers have won a federal grant to validate and improve VotingWorks' open-source vote-by-mail technology in time for November's election.