News & Announcements

CS ACM Programming Team Places Third At Regional Competition (More)

Applications for Graduate Study in CS Now Being Accepted (More)

CS Grad Student Michael Dietz Wins Award At Usenix Security Symposium (More)

Rice Tapped for Role in Computing Research Center (More)

The Department of Computer Science Welcomes Rice's Largest Incoming Class (More)

Graduates Of Rice Earn Higher Salaries Than Grads Of Other Texas Colleges According To New Survey (More)

CS Group Releases New Beta Version of DrJava (More)

Sarkar to Serve on DOE's Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (More)

Mellor-Crummey, Tallent, Fagan Win Distinguished Paper Award (More)

Nakhleh Wins CAREER Award (More)

Palem Wins McDowell Award, Featured in Chronicle (More)

Kavraki Co-PI On DOD MURI Grant (More)

CS Graduating Senior, Emily Fortuna, Among 73 Rice Students Elected To Phi Beta Kappa (More)

Lustig and Vardi Awarded Best Paper at FOSSACS (More)

Cox Receives Michael Pearlman Memorial Award (More)

Wallach Quoted In Article On Cyber Attacks Of US Power Grid (More)

CS Ranks Ninth On U.S. News & World Report's List of Best Grad Schools For Computer Programming Languages Specialty (More)

CS Students Receive NSF Graduate Fellowships (More)

"The Hunt for a Universal Compiler Gets $16M"—New York Times Article on The PACE Project (More)

DARPA Awards $16 Million To CS Team: The PACE Project  (More)

Nakhleh Wins Teaching Prize From Rice's Phi Beta Kappa Chapter (More)

Troy Ruths Awarded DOE Fellowship and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (More)

Palem's Chip Mentioned in Computer Weekly, Channel 39 News Story (More)

Ng Awarded Sloan Fellowship (More)

Take a Virtual Tour of Duncan Hall and Fifteen Other Places on or Near Campus (More)

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In the last twenty years, computer science has grown from a somewhat obscure academic discipline into one of the driving forces of technological advance. From antilock brakes to airbags, secondary oil recovery to weather prediction, advanced imaging technology to digital enhancement in the cinema, computation is changing the world in which we live. Contrary to popular belief, the job market in computer science and information technology is robust and growing (a fact highlighted by the recent ACM Taskforce on Outsourcing, chaired by our own Moshe Vardi). Over the next several decades, computer scientists will continue to reshape the world in which we live.

Our department at Rice has a three-sided mission: to create knowledge, to disseminate knowledge, and to provide service to our communities—the local Rice community and the broader community beyond the campus.

On the research front, our faculty, staff, and students are exploring innovative ideas in areas that range from mobile computing through text analysis; from ways to program computers through ways to build them; and from fundamental principles of logic and discrete mathematics through the application of those principles to gaming, voting, and driving robots.

On the educational front, we place top-flight researchers in the classroom with our undergraduates and graduate students. Education at Rice is a contact sport, with small classes, informed faculty, and myriad opportunities for students and faculty to interact. Many Rice undergrads work in faculty research programs; those opportunities start with encounters in the classroom.

On the subject of service, our faculty members serve on professional committees, advise local schools on technology issues, and take advocacy roles in public policy that range from advising the federal government on science policy through fighting to ensure secure voting systems.  Our own Dan Wallach has been in the forefront of the national discussion on electronic voting machines.

Rice’s computer science department is a lively and invigorating place. Welcome to our web presence. We hope that this site provides you with information on a broad range of topics, including our events calendar, the undergraduate program, the graduate program, faculty openings, and our affiliates program. Just as you’ve found our web site, we would like to encourage you to visit the Rice campus and the department itself.

Sincerely, Joe Warren Chair, Computer Science