The area of approximation algorithms is aimed at giving provable guarantees on the performance of heuristics for hard problems. The course will present general techniques (such as convex ...

Research awards: Her research has earned her an Alfred Sloan Fellowship, the 2009 Carnegie Science Center's Emerging Female Scientist Award, an NSF CAREER Award, a Best Paper Award, the 2001 UCSB ...

The lowest level of auditing in Scientology consists of what are called the "objective processes." These are often programmed for a newcomer to Scientology after he has completed the introductory ...

Nested data parallelism: this feature offers the benefits of data parallelism, concise code that is easy to understand and debug, while being well suited for irregular algorithms, such as algorithms ...

`Here!' cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of ...

They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank--the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.

My research goals are to advance the science of how people interact and learn with adaptive, AI-based learning technologies, and to advance the design and engineering of these technologies.

Overall Approach: The programmable headlight is a co-located imaging and illumination system consisting of a camera, processor, and spatial light modulator (SLM). The camera captures images of the ...

Force: an agent or influence that, if applied to a free body results chiefly in an acceleration of the body and sometimes in elastic deformation and other effects. Every day we deal with forces of one ...

Course description Boolean functions, f : {0,1} n → {0,1}, are perhaps the most basic object of study in theoretical computer science. They also arise in several other areas of mathematics, including ...

Planning is one of the core components that enable robots to be autonomous. Robot planning is responsible for deciding in real-time what the robot should do next, how to do it, where the robot should ...

An E-meter is a Wheatstone bridge, an electronic circuit that measures electrical resistance relative to a standard resistance. It is used by the Cult/Church of Scientology to tease out what they ...