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Three from Rice University elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Two Rice University professors and a fellow from Rice’s
Baker Institute for Public Policy have been elected to the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.Bonnie Bartel, Richard Tapia and John Mendelsohn joined the ranks of
astronaut John Glenn, singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, actor Sally
Field and operatic soprano Renee Fleming as members of the academy’s
Class of 2013 — one of the highest honors for leaders in academia,
business, public affairs, the humanities and the arts.
(April 25, 2013)
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2013 ERIT Seed Funding - Call for Proposals
The Ken
Kennedy Institute for Information Technology (K2I) at Rice University is
soliciting proposals for its 2013 Enriching Rice through Information Technology
(ERIT) seed funding program.
(April 10, 2013)
AAAS board chief urges `patient, long-term investment’ in science
BY PATRICK KURP, Engineering Communications
Which
nations will best advance the interests of science and engineering, and thus
reap the most economic benefits in the coming century, asks William Press, chairman
of the board and former president of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.His
answer: “Those nations most willing to engage in patient, long-term investment,
and that’s not necessarily the United States. I think China is very good at
this. Europe is pretty good. The countries at risk are the U.S., Canada and
Australia.”
(April 8, 2013)
Cyber arms control? Forget about it
(CNN) -- With the advent of "cyberwar," a poorly
defined term that seems to be used as a catch-all phrase for all manners
of computer-related attacks, it's natural to ask about cyber arms
control. Richard Clarke, former cybersecurity adviser to President
Obama, has advocated along with others for cyber arms control or new legal rules for war in cyberspace.
(March 27, 2013)
Inexact Design: Beyond Fault-Tolerance
Krishna Palem, a computer scientist at Rice University, has an
unorthodox prescription for building faster computers. "If you are
willing to live with inexact answers, you can compute more efficiently,"
he says. If you ask him whether one of his processors is working
correctly, he's apt to answer, "Probably."
(March 27, 2013)
Rixner, Warren, Greiner and Wong honored by trustees
Four members of the Computer Science Department faculty received special
recognition at the March 21 Rice Board of Trustees meeting for
developing and launching Rice’s first massive open online course (MOOC)
on Coursera. Coursera, which launched in 2012, was the first education
platform to host MOOC content from multiple world-renowned universities
on one website.
(March 27, 2013)
Just How Fast Are China’s Internet Censors? Very.
China’s social media censors never sleep, though they do fall behind on their work late at night.That’s one of a number of findings from a new study
by independent researcher Zhu Tao and a handful of U.S. academics that
analyzes the mechanics of censorship on China’s most popular
microblogging platform, Sina Corp.’sSINA +2.11% Weibo.
(March 8, 2013)
In oil and gas, `technology is the key’
BY PATRICK KURP, Engineering Communications
The
future of the oil and gas industry, and of its continued prosperity, will
increasingly rely on high-performance computing and improved visualization,
says Dirk Smit, vice president of exploration technology and chief scientist
for geophysics at Shell.Smit
was a keynote speaker at the 2013 Oil and Gas High-Performance Computing
Workshop, held Feb. 28 at Rice University. In attendance at the sixth annual
event were more than 350 leaders from the oil and gas industry, the
high-performance computing and information technology industries, and
academics.
(March 4, 2013)
Vardi named SURA Distinguished Scientist
Washington, DC – The Southeastern Universities Research
Association announced that Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University’s Karen
Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational
Engineering, will receive SURA’s 2013 Distinguished Scientist Award.
The award honors a research scientist whose extraordinary work fulfills
the SURA mission of “fostering excellence in scientific research.”
(March 1, 2013)