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  • Algorithms for matrix completion 
    Xin, Yu, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    We consider collaborative filtering methods for matrix completion. A typical approach is to find a low rank matrix that matches the observed ratings. However, the corresponding problem has local optima. In this thesis, we ...
  • Business case assessment of unmanned systems level of autonomy 
    Liu, Edward W (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    The federal government has continually increased its spending on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during the past decade. Efforts to drive down UAV costs have primarily focused on the physical characteristics of the UAV, ...
  • Reducing 3G energy consumption on mobile devices 
    Deng, Shuo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    The 3G wireless interface is a significant contributor to battery drain on mobile devices. This paper describes the design, implementation, and experimental evaluation of methods to reduce the energy consumption of the 3G ...
  • A novel method for mammalian large genetic circuit assembly and delivery 
    Li, Yinqing, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    Genetic manipulation of mammalian cells provides a foundation for contemporary biological research both basic and applied. Existing methods for construction and introduction of large scale exogenous genetic information ...
  • Mechanism design with approximate types 
    Zhu, Zeyuan Allen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    In mechanism design, we replace the strong assumption that each player knows his own payoff type exactly with the more realistic assumption that he knows it only approximately: each player i only knows that his true type ...
  • Creating supply chain visibility : a case study on extending Intel's Unit Level Traceability to customers 
    Kang, Annie (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    In an effort to enable supply chain visibility for Intel products, the Customer Unit Level Traceability (ULT) Program was formed to help extend Intel's ULT capability to the customer level. Increased traceability of Intel ...
  • Competition between species can drive public-goods cooperation within a species 
    Celiker, Hasan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    Costly cooperative strategies are vulnerable to exploitation by cheats. Microbial studies have suggested that cooperation can be maintained in nature by mechanisms such as reciprocity, spatial structure and multi-level ...
  • Enabling imagination through story alignment 
    Fay, Matthew Paul (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    Stories are an essential piece of human intelligence. They exist in countless forms and varieties seamlessly integrated into every facet of our lives. Stories fuel human understanding and our explanations of the world. ...
  • Design of ultra low power analog-to-digital converter for ambulatory EEG recording 
    El-Damak, Dina Reda (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    Portable acquisition of biopotential signals requires the design of compact, energy efficient circuits and systems. Such systems typically include analog-to-digital converter for digitizing signals from AFE and feeding it ...
  • Resolving optical illumination distributions along an axially symmetric photodetecting fiber 
    Lestoquoy, Guillaume (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    Photodetecting fibers of arbitrary length with internal metal, semiconductor and insulator domains have recently been demonstrated. These semiconductor devices display a continuous translational symmetry which presents ...
  • Coding and scheduling optimization over packet erasure broadcast channels 
    Zeng, Weifei (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    Throughput and per-packet delay can present strong trade-offs that are important in the cases of delay sensitive applications. In this thesis, we investigate such trade-offs using a random linear network coding scheme for ...
  • A hierarchical Markov chain based solver for very-large-scale capacitance extraction 
    Zhao, Yan, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    This thesis presents two hierarchical algorithms, FastMarkov and FD-MTM, for computing the capacitance of very-large-scale layout with non-uniform media. Fast- Markov is Boundary Element Method based and FD-MTM is Finite ...
  • Survivable paths in multilayer networks 
    Parandehgheibi, Marzieh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    We consider the problem of protection in multilayer networks. In single-layer net- works, a pair of disjoint paths can be used to provide protection for a source-destination pair. However, this approach cannot be directly ...
  • Understanding user state and preferences for robust spoken dialog systems and location-aware assistive technology 
    Li, William (William Pui Lum) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    This research focuses on improving the performance of spoken dialog systems (SDS) in the domain of assistive technology for people with disabilities. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has compelling potential applications ...
  • An efficient drive, sensing, and actuation system using PZT stack actuator cells 
    Barragán, Patrick R (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    The PZT cellular actuator developed in the MIT d'Arbeloff Laboratory utilizes small-strain, high-force PZT stack actuators in a mechanical flexure system to produce a larger-strain, lower-force actuator useful in robotic ...
  • Adaptive auditory-motor control of the time-varying formant trajectories in vowels and its patterns of generalization 
    Cai, Shanqing (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    This thesis aims at elucidating the role of auditory feedback in the learning and planning of complex articulatory gestures in time-varying phonemes. To this end, we studied native Mandarin speakers' responses to perturbations ...
  • Exact decoding of phrase-based translation models through Lagrangian relaxation 
    Chang, Yin-Wen, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    This thesis describes two algorithms for exact decoding of phrase-based translation models, based on Lagrangian relaxation. Both methods recovers exact solutions, with certificates of optimality, on over 99% of test examples. ...
  • On-Chip Network exploration and synthesis 
    Chen, Chia-Hsin, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    As CMOS technology improves, the trend of processor designs has gone towards multi-core architectures. Networks-on-Chips (NoCs) have become popular on-chip interconnect fabrics that connect the ever-increasing cores because ...
  • Quantifying the impact of customer allocations on supply chain performance 
    Sheth, Neel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    This project investigates the impact that customer allocations have on key cost and service indicators at Intel Corporation. Allocations provide a method to fill orders during constrained supply, when total demand for a ...
  • Impact of shipping Ball-Grid-Array Notebook processors in tape and reel on the PC supply chain 
    Chuang, Pamela (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    Today, approximately 90% of Intel notebook processors are packaged in PGA (Pin Grid Array) and 10% are packaged in BGA (Ball Grid Array). Intel has recently made a decision to transform the notebook industry by creating a ...
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