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Kuldeep Meel: High-Risk, High-Reward Research

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Kuldeep Meel, a fourth-year graduate student in Computer Science, won a prestigious IBM Ph.D. Fellowship

Rice CS alumnus Kostas Bekris will present a methodology for efficiently rearranging multiple similar objects using a robotic arm March 30

Three CS students return from IGNITE Entrepreneurship Trek to Silicon Valley

Congratulations to Philip Taffet and Jake Nyquist for winning the undergraduate division of the Owl Open Business Plan Competition.

CS associate professors Swarat Chaudhuri (right) and Chris Jermaine won a 2016 Google Research Award to pursue their work on computer-assisted programming.

Ryan Luna sees beauty when NASA's Robonaut 2 responds to artfully written motion planning algorithms.

CS Ph.D. students Leo Elworth and Jayvee Abella recently won Keck Fellowships. His award "almost fully funds grad school," says Elworth.

Rice computer scientist Moshe Vardi suggests that human labor may be obsolete by 2045.

Congratulations to Suguman Bansal, who won the ACM Student Research Competition at POPL 2016.

Simbarashe Dzinamarira develops mechanisms to reduce the cost of data replication, an expensive, albeit crucial, operation in distributed file systems.

Smart Data Pricing
Carlee Jo-Wong, Jacobus fellow at Princeton, talks about data traffic, network capacity, and smart data pricing on March 17

Query Optimization for Data Science
Immanuel Trummer discusses query optimization for data science at 4:00 PM on Monday, March 21

Online Social Interactions: a Lens on Humans and a World for Humans
Cornell Ph.D. candidate Chenhoa Tan describes his research using massive datasets of social interactions on March 10

Machines of Loving Grace
John Markoff, Pulitzer prize winning science writer for the New York Times, explores partnership with robots and AI on March 11

Open Pitch and Fireside Chat with Max Levchin
Entrepreneur Max Levchin listens to Rice students pitch him their ideas, then gives a public Fireside Chat on March 9

A Data Management System for Machine Learning Workloads
Ce Zhang discusses the creation of a data management system for machine learning workloads with the goal of helping build KBC (knowledge base construction) systems on February 25

EVENTS

Tuesday, March 29, 2016
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Inductive Program Synthesis from Input-Output Examples
John Feser

Wednesday, March 30, 2016
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Efficient Robot Motion Planning with Practical Performance Guarantees
Kostas Bekris

Thursday, March 31, 2016
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Comparing Columnar, Row and Array DBMSs to Process Recursive Queries on Large Graphs
Carlos Ordonez

Wednesday, April 6, 2016
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Computer-aided Strategic Reasoning
Suguman Bansal

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