Rice University is offering a unique Online Master of Computer Science degree this Fall. This new program will offer Rice’s world-class education in a flexible online format tailored to working adults. The program offers small class sizes, and
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Constrained counting is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence, with applications in probabilistic reasoning, inexact computing, and statistical physics. In today’s episode, we will learn about research at Rice which studies how graph
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T-cell-based immunotherapy is one of the most promising new directions for cancer research. This kind of immunotherapy is time-consuming and expensive to conduct in a traditional wet lab, and so computational models have become invaluable in he
Voting technology has been developing at a rapid pace in the 21st century; at this point, many communities in the United States use entirely electronic voting machines. However, these high-tech voting machines have significant security vulnerab