The grand vision of Artificial Intelligence is to build agents that can continuously learn from experience and reason about how to act in the world. Traditional machine learning models generally assume access to huge amount ...

Wheat is cultivated in almost all the states in the United States of America, and it is the third most cultivated crop in terms of acreage, producing a yield of 60 million tons per year. In 2016, world production of wheat ...

For over three decades, computer scientists enjoyed a "free lunch" inasmuch as they could depend on processor speeds doubling every three years. This all came to an end in the mid-2000's, when manufacturers ceased increasing ...

Tractable models are a subclass of probabilistic graphical models (PGMs) in which exact inference can be performed tractably – a very desirable property missing from arbitrary PGMs like Bayesian and Markov networks – exact ...

Aerogels are low-density nanoporous solids containing hierarchical three-dimensional networks of nanoparticles pursued primarily for thermal and acoustic insulations and often for functionalization purposes. This work ...

This dissertation concerns the interactions of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) with mammalian macrophages, cells that are first responders to foreign invaders in the body. The production and use of MWNTs are rapidly ...

Current Ti-based dental implants exhibit failure (2-10%), due to various mechanisms, including chemical corrosion of the surface of the TiO2 naturally covered Ti-based implants. This thesis focused on developing a unique ...

Automation is an exciting and developing field that, today, is growing at the speed of human innovation. Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) in particular are being implemented in pioneering ways across many industries—medical, ...

Many modern computers have two diverse computing models baked-in: CPUs and GPUs. The diversity of these computing models arises from their historically disparate purposes: Early CPU designs focused on rapidly executing ...

Over the last twenty-five years, convergence towards deterrence policies has increased in both traditional and new asylum granting countries. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, the rapid increase in the number of people ...