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CrowdConcept : assessing the crowd's creative capacity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Crowdsourcing creative work - the process of outsourcing a creative task to a large online community or crowd - has grown in popularity over the last decade and is now considered a serious design strategy. However, there ...
Enhancing astronaut mobility through spacesuit kinematics and interactive space outreach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Human spaceflight programs are facing new challenges rising from the evolution of the exploration agenda, as well as the changing international panel of actors. Planetary exploration missions will require intensive ...
PrivacyInformer : an automated privacy description generator for the MIT App Inventor
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
With the advent of "smart" mobile phones and ubiquitous mobile applications, the pace at which people generate, access, and acquire data has accelerated significantly. In this thesis, we first examine how privacy issues ...
An analysis of the potential economic impact of natural gas production in Tanzania
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Following substantial discoveries of natural gas in recent years, Tanzania has new options for economic development. The country's policy makers are faced with having to make decisions about how best to utilize the gas in ...
FairML : ToolBox for diagnosing bias in predictive modeling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Predictive models are increasingly deployed for the purpose of determining access to services such as credit, insurance, and employment. Despite societal gains in efficiency and productivity through deployment of these ...
Analysis of potential implementations of pushback control at LaGuardia Airport
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Implementations of surface traffic management strategies at congested airports have the potential to yield significant benefits, but must account for the constraints and objectives of multiple stakeholders. This thesis ...
Strategy for international cooperation in planning the Chinese Space Station
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
After ten years of planning and pre-development, the Chinese government approved the space station project on September 25, 2010. In October 2010, the People's Republic of China (PRC) officially announced its independent ...
Enhanced engine mechanical efficiency through tailoring of lubricant formulations to localized power cylinder wall conditions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Numerical and experimental studies were performed on an internal combustion engine power cylinder wall's lubricating oil film in order to assess the possibility of tailoring engine lubricants to specific engine configurations ...
A stochastic techno-economic comparison of alternative jet fuel production pathways
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
This study quantifies and compares the costs of production for six alternative jet fuel pathways using consistent financial and technical assumptions. Uncertainty was propagated through the analysis using Monte Carlo ...
Transfer learning for predictive models in MOOCs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Predictive models are crucial in enabling the personalization of student experiences in Massive Open Online Courses. For successful real-time interventions, these models must be transferable - that is, they must perform ...