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Archived Computer Science News Articles

 

2011

Two CS Undergrads Named KPCB Engineering Fellows

Palem elected AAAS Fellow

Rice Coarray Fortran Honored at SC11 Competition

Mellor-Crummey Receives 2012 DOE INCITE Award

Kavraki Named IEEE Fellow
Kavraki Gives Distinguished Lecture to NSF CISE
Kavraki Research Group Gives Tutorial at 2011 IEEE/RSJ IROS
McLurkin Featured in Rice News
CS Undergrad Shares LCPC Student Presentation Prize, Grad Student Awarded at CnC
CS Grad Student, Xu Liu, Awarded Schlumberger Fellowship
Rice University Names Vardi a Distinguished Service Professor
Johnson and Students Win Best Paper Award at MobiHoc 2011
CS Team Makes it to Microsoft Imagine Cup Finals
Computer Science Overtakes Accounting as Major

CS Grad Student, Adam Pridgen, Awarded National Physical Science Consortium Fellowship

CS Grad Student, Drew Bryant, Awarded Schlumberger Fellowship

Vardi Wins IEEE Goode Award

Professor says Google's Android transmits personal data without encryption

Multi-university team receives $1.3 million from Intel to improve firmware

Palem Featured in Chronicle's SciGuy Blog

Kavraki elected ACM fellow

CS Senior Runner-up For CRA's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award

Rice Coarray Fortan Voted "Most Productive Language" in SC10 Competition

Rice Habanero Group Receives Best Paper Award

CS Research Cited in Slate Article

Rice Teams Compete in ACM/ICPC Regional Contest

Palem Quoted in Energy Efficiency News Article

Mellor-Crummey Receives 2011 INCITE Award

Palem's I-Slate Group Featured In Numerous News Reports

November

Rice Habanero Group Receives Best Paper Award

October

Rice Teams Compete in ACM/ICPC Regional Contest

October Rice CS Research Cited in Slate Article
October Vardi Inducted into Academy of Arts & Sciences
October Palem Quoted in Energy Efficieny News Article

2010

August Wallach Quoted in Chronicle Article
August CS Students Receive Borg Scholarships
July Pace Project Launches Web Site
July DrJava Reaches Milestone
July CS Grad Student Recieves Scholarship From IBM
July CS Alum, Lelac Almagor, Featured In Washington Post Article
April Shelley Cantrick, CS Student Worker, Awarded Prestigious Fellowship
April Vardi Inducted Into The American Academy of Arts & Sciences
April Vardi Receives Outstanding Contributions to ACM Award
April CS Grad Student Awarded NSF Fellowship

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2009

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September

CS Faculty Recognized As Outstanding and Distinguished Faculty Associates

CS Undergrads Elected College Presidents For 2010–2011


Channel 39 News Features Rice Game Design Program

McLurkin Mentioned In Boston Globe Article

Johnson Mentioned In Article On Microsoft/VirnetX Patent Case

IBM Donates BlueBioU to Rice

CS Department Ranked Among Top 50 Undergraduate Gaming Design Programs

Vardi Receives CRA Distinguished Service Award

Nakhleh Named Sloan Fellow

McLurkin Among "100 History Makers In The Making"

Schlumberger Announces Rice Scholarship Recipients

Mellor-Crummey Receives INCITE Award

NTU, Rice Establish Infodynamics Institute



Ng and Sarkar Receive IBM Faculty Awards

2009 Palem Articles

"Polling Place Burglary Raises Specter of Fraud" - Wallach Chronicle Article

Tallent Awarded George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship

CS ACM Programming Team Places Third At Regional Competition

New Survey: Rice Graduates Earn Higher Salaries Than Grads Of Other Texas Colleges

August CS Grad Student Michael Dietz Wins Award At Usenix Security Symposium
August Rice Tapped for Role in Computing Research Center
August Department of Computer Science Welcomes Rice's Largest Incoming Class
August CS Group Releases New Beta Version of DrJava
August Sarkar to Serve on DOE's Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee
July Nakhleh Wins CAREER Award
June Mellor-Crummey, Tallent, Fagan Win Distinguished Paper Award
June Palem Wins McDowell Award, Featured in Chronicle
May Kavraki Co-PI On DOD MURI Grant
May

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

May CS Students Receive NSF Graduate Fellowships
May CS Graduating Senior, Emily Fortuna, Among 73 Rice Students Elected To Phi Beta Kappa
May

2009 CS Graduates

May Cox Receives Michael Pearlman Memorial Award
April Wallach Quoted In Article On Cyber Attacks Of US Power Grid
April U.S. News & World Report Ranks Rice CS Ninth in List of Best Grad Schools For Computer Programming Languages
April "The Hunt for a Universal Compiler Gets $16M"—New York Times Article on The PACE Project
April

DARPA Awards $16 Million To CS Team

April

Troy Ruths Awarded DOE Fellowship and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

March Lustig and Vardi Awarded Best Paper at FOSSACS
February

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

February

Photos From Grad Recruiting Weekend

January Rice University Software Helps ID Terrorists Carrying Out Attacks
January CS Welcomes New Faculty Member: Chris Jermaine
January Sarkar Named ACM Fellow
January Vardi Elevated to IEEE Fellow

2008

December Lena Receives Distinguished Employee Award
December The 2008 CS Holiday Party
December 4

The CS Department and TMC Team Up for Game Day

November Habanero Group Featured in Rice News

October

Rice ACM Programming Contest Results

October 31

Wallach Quoted in Houston Chronicle Article on eSlate Voting System

October 9 Hack-a-Vote: Students at Rice learn how vulnerable electronic voting really is–COMP 527: Computer Systems Security, Wallach's course, is featured by Rice National Media Site
August Troy Ruths, CS Grad Student, Featured in Rice News
August Welcome Back Lunch and Nine New Grad Students
August

Joint Faculty, Farinaz Koushanfar, Featured as One of Technology Review's TR35 Young Innovators

July 31

Vardi Wins ACM Presidential Award, Codd Award, and Pascal Medal

July Rice CS Graduate and New CEO of Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst, Featured in Triangle Business Journal
July

Vardi is Now Editor-in-Chief of Newly Redesigned Communications of the ACM

July

Rice Students Receive Prestigious Fellowships

July

Dave Johnson Promoted to Professor

July

John Mellor-Crummey Promoted to Professor

July

Updates on Missing CS Undergraduate Matthew Wilson

June 14

Missing CS Undergraduate's Car Found in Berkley, CA

June 12 CS Grad Student Yousra Alkabani Presents Paper on N-Variant Chips

May 14

Kavraki Gives Keynote Lecture at NCWIT

May 9

CS Graduate Students Receive Doctoral Hoods

May 5

Dan Wallach Discusses Backscattering in PC World Article

May

Kavraki Selected as IEEE RAS Distinguished Lecturer

May

Rice CS Ranks Ninth in Nation for Programming Language Research

April 30

CS Celebrates the End of the Academic Year, Says "Thank You" to Keith Cooper

April 30

CS Senior, Ted Torous, Wins iTouch at End-of-Year Party

April 25

Staff Celebrates Administrative Professionals Day at Prego's

April 28

"Less Geek, More Citizen: Computer Scientists Push Social Relevance"—Department's Collaboration with University of Buffalo, Microsoft, and Applied Sciences, Inc

April 22

Vardi Receives Test-of-Time Award

April 2

Fox 26 News Interview Featuring Krishna Palem Discussing New Breed of Computer Chip

March Palem Featured in Technology Review Article

February

CS Junior, Lead Author Diego Ongaro to Present at Upcoming International Computing Conference

January

CS Undergraduate Matthew Wilson Reported Missing

 

 

2007

 

December

For Krishna Palem, Imperfection is the New Buzzword for the Next Generation of Integrated Chips

December 13

Rice Fares Well in Competition for NSF Dollars

December 11

Rice Computer Scientists Ng and Cox Win NSF Grant to Research New Paradigm for Network Control and Management

December 7

CITI Renamed 'Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology'

December 5

Joe Warren Named New Chair of Computer Science

November 27

Rice Names First Recipient of Cray's HPC Graduate Fellowship Honoring the Late Ken Kennedy

November 14

Computer Science Program at Rice Ranks No. 1 in the Country in Faculty Productivity

October 18

Ken Kennedy Honored Posthumously with Tapia Achievement Award

October 17

CS Grad Students Receive Best Student Paper Award at ROBOCOMM 

October 12

Microsoft XBox Tourney Set for Oct. 12

October 5

Rice Forms Singapore Link to Study Technology Cost/Value Equation

September 25

Cox, Rixner Win Funding to Develop I/O Virtualization Solution

September 11

2007 Computer Science Affiliates Meeting Showcases Research at Rice

September 6

Kennedy Wins Posthumous 'Best Contribution' Award

September 5

Rice's Wallach Finds Flaws in e-Voting System

September 4

Article Features New Rice-NTU Project to Develop Energy-Efficient Microchips

September 4

Rice, Nanyang Tech Collaborate on Sustainable Nanoelectronics

September 1

Friends, Colleagues Remember Ken Kennedy in Fall 2007 Issue of SciDAC Review Magazine

August 23

Rice-led Project Lands $1M to Build Safer Robots

August 1

Wallach Named One of Top 40 Researchers

July 2

Lydia Kavraki represents the Computing Research Association at the Coalition for National Science Funding's Annual Science Exposition on Capitol Hill

June 1

IBM PERCS Researcher Moves to Rice University
February 7

Rice Mourns the Loss of Ken Kennedy

Online System for Graduate Applications Introduced

2006

 

October 12

Nakhleh Wins Funding to Analyze the Complex Evolutionary Mechanisms of Microbes

October 4 Computer Science Corporate Affiliates Meeting
September 14

Rice Wins $10M for Supercomputer Research

September 7

NSF Awards Will Support Development of Three Faculty Members

August 31

Annual Back-to-School Luncheon

August 12 Vardi Wins LICS Test-of-Time Award
July 12

Keith Cooper's 50th Birthday

July 11 Cox wins 2006 USENIX Best Paper Award
July 10

ComputerWorld Article on Multicore Chips Quotes Kennedy

June 29

Mellor-Crummey Wins 2006 Dijkstra Prize

June 24

eWEEK Article on Cool CS-related Summer Internships

May 2

Amanda Cruess Wins WRC Impact Award

May Life After the CS Degree
April 25

Computer Science Students Win 2006 REA Awards

April 20 Rice Programmers Compete in ‘Tech Olympics’ in San Antonio
April 19 Three CS Majors Elected to Phi Beta Kappa
April 10 CS Grad Students Win Fellowships
March

ACM Sigmod Interview with Moshe Vardi

March 30

Rixner Wins NSF Career Award

March 29

Retired Major General Presents AFCEA Scholarship to Jingyi Li

March 24

Sky.NET Wins '06 Virginia and Griff Lawhon Digital Education Award

March 23

Study Shows Robust US IT Industry Despite Offshoring

March 22 SRC Funds First Project at Rice
March 8 Engineering BBQ Pics
March 1 Vardi Honored for Creation of Verification Tools
February 13 New CS Dept Staffers
February 10 Supercomputing System Up and Running
2005
December 15 COMP 415: "The Apprentice" of Academia
December 6

Rice Programmers to Compete in ‘Tech Olympics’

December 5 Winners Finally Named in 2005 CS Poster Competition
December 1 VEF Fellow Pursues CS Studies
November 10

Cooper Elected ACM Fellow

September 20

2005 Corporate Affiliates Meeting Recap

August 16

Rice's CITI to Acquire Cray XD1 Supercomputer

August 15

Wallach's e-Voting Research to Recieve Funding via NSF Grant

July 11

CS faculty Provide Community Outreach with Annual TeachJava! Workshop

June 20 Johnson Elected Chair for ACM SIGMOBLE

May 12

Kennedy Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

May 20

Iva Jean's Retirement Party!

May 6

Taha and Cartwright Awarded $506K for NSF SoD Project

May 5

Mallory Guajardo Featured in Cinco de Mayo Article

May 5

Three Rice Faculty Earn Guggenheim Fellowships (Vardi Included)

April 7

Luay Nakhleh Selected for Bert Kay Outstanding Dissertation Award

March 24

Vardi Helps Launch New Open-access Journal

March 17

Computer Science’s Wallach Selected for Election Task Force

March 4, 5

Graduate Recruiting

February 2

Postdoc Mark Moll Researching Protein Dynamics for Flexible Drug Design

January 24

Professor Ng Wins CAREER Award

 

2004  
December Computer Science E-newsletter: 2004 Year in Review
December 6 Phylogenetics: Newest CS Professor Nakhleh Studies Linguistic and Molecular Evolution
December 20 Wallach and Security Group Unearth Google Desktop Security Issue
November 22 Interview with ’02 graduate, J. Cameron Cooper Publishes “Building Websites with Plone”
November 3 Physical and Biological Computing Group Working to Reduce Research Time for Drug Developers
October 25 Members of CSters Club Attend Inspirational Grace Hopper Celebration
October 21 Computer Science Department Awarded Clare Boothe Luce Grant
October 21

Rice, Others to Build Computing Grid

October 18 Student Poster Competition at the 2004 Corporate Affiliates Meeting
September 28 EXTRA, EXTRA!! Darnell is Speechless!!
September 23 Rice Receives $2M Grant for Supercomputer
September 13 Vardi Co-chair of ACM Study to Assess Global Impact of IT Outsourcing
August 19 Rice Professors/Alumni Rank Well in ACM SIGPLAN Compilation
August 17

Vardi Inducted as AAAI Fellow

July 12 Professors Give Back to Community with TeachJava! Workshop
May 5 COMP 410—The "Real World" of Computer Science Classes
January Kavraki Elected to American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows

2003

 

December 19

OOPSLA Awards Best Paper to Allen

December 15

Exploring the Animation Matrix with Alum Mark Hall

October 30

Shehu Places First in Affiliates Meeting Poster Competition

August 5

Industrial Partnerships Cultivate Cutting-edge Education Opportunities

July 25

Johns Hopkins, Rice Research Team ID Flawed e-Voting Security

June 13

Johnson Leads Team Identifying/Correcting "Wormhole" Threat

May 12

CRA Funds Undergrad Summer Research

April 15

Cartwright Garners IBM Eclipse Innovation Award

February 13

Microsoft Research Supports Peer-to-Peer Research

February 11

Christian Awarded Schlumberger Scholarship, CRA-W Fellowship

2002

 

December 18

Druschel Co-leads $12 Million Peer-to-Peer Research

December 12

CS Welcomes Walid Taha

September 26

NSF Awards $3.5 Million to Rice for IT Research

September 9

Project Might Predict Serious Conflicts, Wars Weeks in Advance

July 25

Rice's Kavraki Named Among Top Innovators

June 3

Canada Awards Ladd—Twice!

June 10

Sachs (1993) Awarded Outstanding Young Engineering Alumnus Award

June 7

Vardi Forges US, European Collaboration

April 29

Rice Honors Kennedy with Highest Academic Title
April 29 Kennedy Named Distinguished Alumnus
February 15 Vardi Elected to National Academy of Engineering


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