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The Earth's oceans holds a wealth of information currently hidden from us. Eective measurement of its properties could provide a better understanding of our changing climate and insights into the creatures that inhabit its ...

The internet was supposed to democratize discussion, allowing people from all walks of life to communicate with each other at scale. However, this vision has not been fully realized--instead online discourse seems to be ...

A crucial challenge in robotics is achieving reliable results in spite of sensing and control uncertainty. In this work, we explore the conformant planning approach to reliable robot manipulation. In particular, we tackle ...

The problem of handling contact is central to the task of controlling a walking robot. Robots can only move through the world by exerting forces on their environment, and choosing where, when, and how to touch the world ...

Subset selection problems arise in machine learning within kernel approximation, experimental design, and numerous other applications. In such applications, one often seeks to select diverse subsets of items to represent ...

Standard process development for micro and nanofabrication etching technologies relies on open-loop trial and error testing of recipes to achieve optimal etch depths and uniformities. This strategy is inefficient for ...

Spintronics promises intriguing device paradigms where electron spin is used as the information token instead of its charge counterpart. Spin transfer torque-magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM) is considered one of ...

This thesis studies the problem of statically bounding the resource usage of computer programs, from programs written in high-level languages to those in assembly languages. Resource usage is an aspect of programs not ...

The goal of this thesis is to investigate generative models over discrete structures, such as binary grids, alignments or arbitrary graphs. We focused on developing models easy to sample from, and we approached the task ...

As the world becomes more connected, privacy is becoming harder to maintain. From social media services to Internet service providers to state-sponsored mass-surveillance programs, many outlets collect sensitive information ...