Rice Ken Kennedy Institute

Join the Rice Ken Kennedy Institute for Distinguished Lecture by Klara Nahrstedt, PhD, Swanlund Chair Professor at the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science and Director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory at University of Illinois. "Role of Edge Computing in Age of Machine Learning and Energy Constraints " on November 11 at 4:00 PM CT in Duncan Hall 1070. This event is free to attend and ELEC 698/699 eligible. RSVP to stay updated on event details: https://lnkd.in/gyyZZ7wN #EdgeComputing #Edge #Computing #MachineLearning #ML #FederatedLearning #FL #Energy

The annual #EnergyHPC Conference, hosted by Rice Ken Kennedy Institute returns to Houston, TX for its 18th year on February 25-27, 2025. Opportunities are now available to get involved in the conference program. Call for Abstracts (Due Dec. 4): Prospective speakers are invited to submit technical abstracts that highlight technology, use-cases, and solutions, support data-driven discovery and decision making, and demonstrate business value for the energy future. Accepted abstracts will be asked to deliver a 20-25 minute talk as part of the conference program. View topics of interest for the technical program at https://lnkd.in/gu7vFveN. Call for Posters Lightning Talks (Due Jan. 20): We're accepting submissions for the Energy HPC Conference poster session on February 26, 2025. New this year, students and postdocs can also apply to present their poster as a lightning talk in the main auditorium before the poster session starts. Awards will be presented to the top poster and lightning talk presenters. View details and submission guidelines at https://lnkd.in/gyPzrPHy.

The Ken Kennedy Institute hosted a Technology, Culture, and Society Lecture by Moshe Vardi on "Lessons from Texas, COVID-19, and the 737 Max: #Efficiency vs. #Resilience." Dr. Vardi explored learnings from recent disasters to argue why resilience should be a primary consideration in #ComputerScience, #Algorithms and #Economics. Dr. Vardi is a University Professor and the George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University — Rice Computer Science Department. He is also a Fellow at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. ICYMI: A recording of the lecture is available on our YouTube channel.

TODAY: Join Moshe Vardi, University Professor and Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering on "Lessons from Texas, COVID-19, and the 737 Max: Efficiency vs. Resilience." This event is free to attend, taking place October 21st at 4:00pm CT in McMurtry Auditorium at Duncan Hall. Event details: https://lnkd.in/gCRm7v2F

Join the Rice Ken Kennedy Institute, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy, and the Rice Computer Science Department for a lecture by Moshe Vardi, University Professor and Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering on "Lessons from Texas, COVID-19, and the 737 Max: Efficiency vs. Resilience." This event is free to attend, taking place October 21st at 4:00pm CT in McMurtry Auditorium at Duncan Hall. RSVP to stay updated on event details: https://lnkd.in/gYg6NZV4

Join the Rice Ken Kennedy Institute for a lecture on "Role of Edge Computing in Age of Machine Learning and Energy Constraints " by Klara Nahrstedt, PhD, Swanlund Chair Professor at the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science; Director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory, The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This event is free to attend, taking place November 11th at 4:00 pm CT in McMurtry Auditorium at Duncan Hall. RSVP to stay updated on event details: https://lnkd.in/gvix4VXj

Registration is open for the In-Space Physical AI Workshop on November 4-5 at the Ion Houston. This workshop will bring together industry leaders, government agencies, and academia to explore the cutting edge of AI in space exploration. Presentations by leading space AI startups and government sponsors will highlight the latest advancements and future directions. https://lnkd.in/gPBAgVin

Generative AI has notoriously struggled to create consistent images, but research from Rice Computer Science's Vision, Language, and Learning Lab could make weird AI images a thing of the past. CS PhD student Moayed Haji Ali and his advisor, associate professor Vicente Ordónez-Román, have developed a way to improve the performance of AI diffusion models. They presented this new approach, called ElasticDiffusion, at CVPR 2024. https://bit.ly/3BcIlQQ

Join the Rice Ken Kennedy Institute, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy, and the Rice Computer Science Department for a lecture by Moshe Vardi, University Professor and Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering on "Lessons from Texas, COVID-19, and the 737 Max: Efficiency vs. Resilience." This event is free to attend, taking place October 21st at 4:00pm CT in McMurtry Auditorium at Duncan Hall. RSVP to stay updated on event details: https://lnkd.in/gYg6NZV4

We are thrilled to announce the renaming of Rice University's School of Engineering to the George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing. “Our decision to rename the school to the George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing reflects the crucial role computing plays today, its expanding importance for the future and our school’s distinguished achievements in this field,” said Luay Nakhleh, the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of Engineering and professor of computer science and biosciences. “Our school is committed to solving for greater good by developing solutions to humanity’s most pressing challenges. https://lnkd.in/gN79CEEx