Beidi and Tharun (IMAGE) Rice University Caption Beidi Chen and Tharun Medini, graduate students in computer science at Rice University, helped develop SLIDE, an algorithm for training deep neural networks without graphics processing units. Credit Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Usage Restrictions Must credit: "Jeff Fitlow/Rice University" License Licensed content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.