In this thesis, I present the design and implementation of a real-time simulation tool, RFID Vis, that is used to simulate a UHF RFID environment. The simulation tool simulates environments containing to pallets of cases ...

We present several graph polynomials, of which the most important one is the Tutte polynomial. These various polynomials have important applications in combinatorics and statistical physics. We generalize the Tutte polynomial ...

Our research focuses on developing design-oriented analytical tools that enable us to better understand how a network comprising dynamic and static elements behaves when it is set in oscillatory motion, and how the ...

The Graspables project is an exploration of how measuring the way people hold and manipulate objects can be used as a user interface. As computational power continues to implemented in more and more objects and devices, ...

The current biofuels market in the United States is dominated by ethanol made from corn. But corn ethanol has limitations that will prevent it from displacing a large amount of fossil fuel use in the U.S. To achieve that ...

Photorefractivity is the modulation of index of refraction due to nonuniform illumination, and numerous applications have been demonstrated utilizing this nonlinear optical property. However, commercial production is ...

Black holes and compact objects are often surrounded by structures known as accretion disks which consist of ionized plasma. Due to the immense forces present in the disk, interesting and complex magnetic field structures ...