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How do neural circuits act as distributed optimizers? UC Santa Barbara's Francesco Bullo explores the question at a Ken Kennedy Institute Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 8 at 4 p.m. RSVP: lnkd.in/gHZ_mFYG #RiceCS #RiceUniversity
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Rice Computer Science is now accepting applications for our new Master of Artificial Intelligence (MAI). Join a limited inaugural class and learn from faculty doing cutting-edge AI research.
Learn more: ow.ly/VcF750ZQHrA
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Rice Computer Science is No. 24 in the nation for undergraduate computer science programs in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings. That's up six spots from last year. Read the full story here: ow.ly/Nu6p50ZQGv4
#RiceCS #RiceUniversity #RiceEngineering
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On National Online Learning Day, we're proud to offer two online Master's degrees: Computer Science and Data Science. Choose your area of focus. Learn from faculty shaping the future of computing. Put your skills to work without stopping your career. cs.rice.edu
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Rice Computer Science teaches how AI actually gets built and deployed. In Houston,
you can see how energy companies approach AI. How hospitals use it. How aerospace programs build it. Different problems, constraints & solutions. All just minutes away. cs.rice.edu
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Texas Area Theory & Algorithms Workshop comes to Rice on September 19. Join us for talks, a poster session and the theory community across TX. Speakers from MIT, UC Berkeley, UMass Amherst, UT Dallas, Texas A&M, UT Austin & Rice. txtheoryday.com/2026 #RiceCS #TxTheoryDay2026
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What if you could predict how a disease will progress in a specific person before symptoms appear? Assistant Professor Vicky Yao's lab. She integrates genetic data, clinical records and imaging to build computational models of disease.
Learn more:
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Yesterday, Rice celebrated a historic milestone. Computer Science Professor Lydia Kavraki and Bioengineering Professor Rebecca Richards-Kortum are the first two faculty members elected to all three National Academies. Fewer than 35 researchers hold this distinction. #RiceCS
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Rice CS researchers Thai Duong and Ria Stevens were selected for the 2026-27 Future Faculty Fellows program. They're advancing to the next chapter with mentorship and professional development to launch faculty careers.
Read more about this year's cohort. ow.ly/MUhn50ZCvHH
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Welcome back, Rice Computer Science students. New faces and familiar ones. The first day means a fresh start for everyone, and we can't wait to see you at Duncan Hall.
We're excited to see what you build.
Good luck this year!
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Meet Jefferson Hernandez. He spent the summer at Adobe Research building AI tools for image editing. His learning: "Rice teaches you how to do research and work with peers. That foundation matters in real tech environments."
What did your internship teach you? Drop a comment.
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Two Rice professors. Two triple crowns.
Lydia Kavraki & Rebecca Richards-Kortum elected to all three National Academies, an honor held by fewer than 35 researchers worldwide.
This is Rice.
Join us on August 27 at 4 pm:
bit.ly/4b6X5QA
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Welcome back, Rice Computer Science. O-Week is here. 500 new Owls. Returning students are settling in.
Dean Nakhleh reminded us of something that matters: the AI tools we use are powerful.
Use them to become stronger.
Not to skip the hard parts.
We're rooting for you. #RiceCS
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Three months ago, our students were heading into internships, research labs and first real jobs. We can't wait to hear what they built.
See you soon at Duncan Hall, Owls!
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You use AI every day. Rice CS now offers two new AI courses that show you what's actually happening behind the screen. No Computer Science background required.
Open to all majors, all levels.
Learn More: ow.ly/IbaO50ZwLQs
What aspect of AI are you most curious about?
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Meet Jingwei Zuo, Rice CS PhD, who spent the summer interning at Google Cloud. His insight: building products requires rigor and seriousness, not just speed in research. That's what Rice CS interns bring. Learn more about our graduate programs. ow.ly/MTzz50ZwGKC #RiceCS
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Seven Rice students spent a week at NASA's Johnson Space Center designing interface software for lunar rovers. They tested it with NASA engineers, got real feedback and rewrote overnight. This is what mentorship and hands-on learning look like.
More: ow.ly/LP1E50Zuw2u
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Not every award comes from where you started. Lydia Kavraki just received an honorary doctorate from her alma mater, the University of Crete. Her work in robotics and AI is changing how machines work safely alongside people.
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We're proud that Assistant Professor Tirthak Patel's team at Rice CS joined the DOE's Quantum Science Center. They'll develop quantum error-correction methods that could make quantum computing practical for real scientific problems. $900K over five years. ow.ly/u3bc50ZuvpX
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$19.9M NSF award: Rice is building an AI-powered materials lab. Computer science, materials science, robotics and AI working together to accelerate discovery. Researchers across the country will soon be able to run sophisticated experiments remotely. More: ow.ly/B5GN50Zuv8b
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