• The Rice Institute Computer, also known as the Rice Computer or R1, was a 54-bit tagged architecture digital computer built during 1958–1961 (partially...
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  • Will Rice College, West Hall becoming Hanszen College, and the temporary Wiess Hall becoming Wiess College. In 1959, the Rice Institute Computer went...
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    management. He implemented, evaluated and refined such designs in the Rice Institute Computer, R1 (1958–61) and the ICL Basic Language Machine (1963–68). A key...
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  • Vacuum-tube computers, now called first-generation computers, are programmable digital computers using vacuum-tube logic circuitry. They were preceded...
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  • RAR file extension an alternate name for the Rice Institute Computer, an innovative computer extant at Rice University from 1959 to 1971 R-1 tank, a Romanian...
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    7, 2007) was an American computer scientist and professor at Rice University. He was the founding chairman of Rice's Computer Science Department. Kennedy...
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  • Burroughs Large Systems (category High-level language computer architecture)
    the Rice Institute Computer, and the central concepts of descriptors and tagged architecture appeared in the design of the Rice Institute Computer in the...
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  • Lydia Kavraki (category Rice University faculty)
    engineering, and mechanical engineering at Rice University. She is also the director of the Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University. She is known for her work...
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  • for the various Rice Owls athletic teams. Edgar Odell Lovett, the first President of Rice (then known as the William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement...
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    Jack Dongarra (category Rice University faculty)
    and teacher in the Computer Science Department at Rice University. He served as a faculty fellow at the Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study...
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    Moshe Vardi (category Rice University faculty)
    Israeli theoretical computer scientist. He is the Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University, United...
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  • John Rischard Rice (June 6, 1934 – January 7, 2024) was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He was the W. Brooks Fortune Distinguished Professor...
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  • Sarita Adve (category Rice University faculty)
    engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1987. She subsequently completed a Master of Science (1989) and Ph.D. (1993) in computer science at the...
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  • University School of Engineering and Science merged into Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, which in turn merged into NYU to form New York University...
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    The Rice Advanced Materials Institute (RAMI) is a campus-wide research institute at Rice University established in 2023. RAMI conducts research in materials...
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  • Vikram Adve (category Indian computer scientists)
    of Computer Science from 2017 to 2019. Prior to joining the faculty at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he was a research scientist at Rice University...
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  • Martin H. Graham (category Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni)
    version of the Los Alamos MANIAC computer. Then, Graham became best known as project leader of the Rice Institute Computer R1 in Houston, Texas. At the time...
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    French computer scientist who got a PhD in Computer Science in 1961, she is considered a pioneer in computer science. After her graduation at Rice University...
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  • Cordell Green (category Rice University alumni)
    an American computer scientist who was the director and chief scientist of the Kestrel Institute. Green received a B.A. and B.S. from Rice University....
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  • Krishna Palem (category Rice University faculty)
    Krishna V. Palem is a computer scientist and engineer of Indian origin and is the Kenneth and Audrey Kennedy Professor of Computing at Rice University and the...
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    ರಂಗೋಲೆ), is a form of traditional decorative art that is drawn by using rice flour as per age-old conventions. It is also drawn using white stone powder...
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  • hospitalised, leaving Rice in total charge at the age of 28. On-site his geometrical knowledge enabled him to write a computer program to locate the segments...
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  • Bob Hearn (category Rice University alumni)
    Rubik's Cube. He is a 1987 alumnus of Rice University; at Rice, he was a member of the Marching Owl Band and of Rice's third-place-winning team in the 1986...
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  • passed on her interest in computers to her daughter. Hall became an undergraduate at Rice University, originally majoring in computer science and managerial...
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  • Peter Druschel (category Rice University faculty)
    April 1959 in Bad Reichenhall) is a German computer scientist and the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken. Druschel...
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    and Computer Engineering, with auxiliary faculty in the Medical School and School of Architecture. The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute started...
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  • and Computer Science, Oregon State University Nagi Naganathan, President, Oregon Institute of Technology Krishna Palem, Professor of Computing, Rice University...
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  • The list of Rice University people includes notable alumni, former students, faculty, and presidents of Rice University. The names of Distinguished Alumni...
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  • Naomi Halas (category Rice University faculty)
    Computer Engineering, and professor of biomedical engineering, chemistry, and physics at Rice University. She is also the founding director of Rice University...
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  • 2015-07-06. "Rice Researchers To Develop Epilepsy "Pacemaker"" (Press release). Rice University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. August...
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