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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 ...
Cyber safety : a systems thinking and systems theory approach to managing cyber security risks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
If we are to manage cyber security risks more effectively in today's complex and dynamic Web 2.0 environment, then a new way of thinking is needed to complement traditional approaches. According to Symantec's 2014 Internet ...
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 ...
Privatizing the Saudi electricity sector
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Electricity demand in Saudi Arabia has been growing rapidly with an average peak demand growth rate of 6% over the past decade. Currently, the structure of the electricity industry is based on a monopoly framework dominated ...
Operational Impacts of Responsive Electricity Loads: A Modeling Framework Including Policy Implications for Cyprus
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
In order to meet EU mandates, the island nation of Cyprus must raise penetration of renewable energy from roughly 5% in 2013 to 16% in 2020. This means Cyprus will need economical ways of balancing intermittency, a special ...
A semantic data federation engine : design, implementation & applications in educational information management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
With the advent of the World Wide Web, the amount of digital information in the world has increased exponentially. The ability to organize this deluge of data, retrieve it, and combine it with other data would bring numerous ...
Understanding user state and preferences for robust spoken dialog systems and location-aware assistive technology
(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 ...
The regulation of internet interconnection : assessing network market power
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Interconnection agreements in the telecommunications industry have always been constrained by regulation. Internet interconnection has not received the same level of scrutiny. Recent debates regarding proposed mergers, ...