The CMC seeks to foster interdisciplinary research by bringing together expertise from computer networking, signal processing, optics, applied mathematics, and computer engineering to meet the technological challenges of today.

Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web.

Digital Signal Processing Group (DSP)

Digital Signal Processing (DSP) -- the transformation of data (signals, images, video, etc.) to extract or better transmit information -- has evolved from an obscure research discipline into an essential technology of everyday life. Rice has been a major force in DSP research and education and many outstanding DSP alumni now hold leadership positions in academics and industry.

To invent, to understand, to develop, to simulate, to control, to optimize, to apply nanoscale optical elements, components, and systems.

Rice Automated Nanoscale Design Group (RAND)

The RAND Group develops automated design strategies, integrating powerful multi-scale computational techniques which are used to rapidly develop, verify, and implement high-performance Systems-On-Chip as well as emerging applications in Nanotechnology and Biotechnology.

The Rice Computer Architecture group focuses on the design, analysis, and implementation of high-performance computing systems for such demanding tasks as networking, communications, multimedia, and scientific computing. Our group draws faculty and students from the Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering departments.

Rice Efficient Computing Group (RECG)

The Rice Efficient Computing Group (RECG) develops efficient technologies for future computing, communication and interfacing. To us, efficiency means three things: 1) Minimal energy consumption, 2) Use of emerging nanometer devices, and 3) User-centered design and services. We study these three aspects in the contexts of mobile & embedded computing and design automation of digital systems.

Rice Networks Group (RNG) is devoted to protocols, theory, and experimental research in next generation wireless networks. The group has deployed and operates a large scale programmable and experimental access network in Southeast Houston.

VISEN's guiding philosophy is to take advantage of the limitations in our ability to perceive quality of information from a computer, and when we do perceive it, our willingness to tolerate it if in return, we are able to have access to devices with much lower cost, energy consumption, heat dissipation and an ability to cope with fluctuations in the “quality” of the transistors. Thus, value of information can be used to guide the design of computing devices, while treating many of the impediments as “features” modeled using probability and randomness, with the goal of sustaining the explosive growth of embedded computing in the nanoscale regime, and be increasingly friendly to the energy footprint of computing systems on a global scale.