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Facette : using facets to improve tag-based bookmarking
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Facette is a web service that uses facets to enhance the organizational capabilities of tag-based bookmarking systems. As with other bookmarking services, Facette allows users to associate tags with bookmarks to assist the ...
Mobile obesity study
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
The prevalence of overweight and obesity has steadily increased over the years among all genders, ages, racial and ethnic groups, educational levels, and smoking levels [15]. From 1960 to 2004, the prevalence of overweight ...
Developing an abstraction layer for the visualization of HSMM-based predictive decision support
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Hidden semi-Markov models (HSMMs) have been previously proposed as real-time operator behavior prediction models that could be used by a supervisor to detect future anomalous behaviors. Because of the disconnect between ...
The future of game Al : learning to use human tactics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Many video games require artificial players that can act as replacements for human players. With today's constant increases in the complexity of games and the prevalence of user-created content, creating an Al that is ...
Image annotation with discriminative model and annotation refinement by visual similarity matching
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
A large percentage of photos on the Internet cannot be reached by search engines because of the absence of textual metadata. Such metadata come from description and tags of the photos by their uploaders. Despite of decades ...
A fourth order [Sigma] [Delta] bandpass modulator
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
A fourth order bandpass [Sigma] [Delta] modulator is proposed to digitize signals from a MEMS gyroscope. The modulator samples the amplitude-modulated signal at eight times the carrier frequency and achieves an SNR of 82dB ...
A framework for automated heart and lung sound analysis using a mobile telemedicine platform
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Many resource-poor communities across the globe lack access to quality healthcare,due to shortages in medical expertise and poor availability of medical diagnostic devices. In recent years, mobile phones have become ...
Data collection and graph generation using touchscreen technology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
This thesis describes the design and implementation of the TouchGraph system, whose goal is to help students develop graphing skills by allowing them to record their own data and access the data of their classmates using ...
A study of alternative drive control interfaces for next-generation electric vehicles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
The drive control interface in automobiles has not significantly changed for almost a century. Recent advances in electric vehicles and drive-by-wire technology allow for new alternative interfaces that enable novel vehicle ...
A new automated approach to cloud population
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
This thesis presents vCloud Populator, a new approach to automating the cloud population process on VMware vCloud Director. Cloud population is the process during which a cloud instance is populated with entities to reflect ...