Browsing MIT Theses by Title
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Computational approaches for the design and prediction of protein-protein interactions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)There is a large class of applications in computational structural biology for which atomic-level representation is crucial for understanding the underlying biological phenomena, yet explicit atomic-level modeling is ... -
Computational approaches to gene finding
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Computational approaches to modeling the conserved structural core among distantly homologous proteins
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Modem techniques in biology have produced sequence data for huge quantities of proteins, and 3-D structural information for a much smaller number of proteins. We introduce several algorithms that make use of the limited ... -
Computational approaches to understand the atomistic drivers of enzyme catalysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)Enzymes readily perform chemical reactions several orders of magnitude faster than their uncatalyzed versions in ambient conditions with high specificity, making them attractive design targets for industrial purposes. ... -
Computational aspects of communication amid uncertainty
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)This thesis focuses on the role of uncertainty in communication and effective (computational) methods to overcome uncertainty. A classical form of uncertainty arises from errors introduced by the communication channel but ... -
Computational aspects of ductile crack growth in three dimensions
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Computational aspects of treatment planning for neutron capture therapy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) is a biochemically targeted form of binary radiation therapy that has the potential to deliver radiation to cancers with cellular dose selectivity. Accurate and efficient treatment ... -
Computational assessment of turbine rim seal system parametric variation on hot gas ingestion and flow pattern
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)A design of experiments (DOE) is carried out to assess the turbine rim cavity system parametric variation on hot gas ingestion, flow pattern, and turbine stage efficiency. The parameters focused on are purge to main mass ... -
Computational bounce flash for indoor portraits
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)Portraits taken with direct flash look harsh and unflattering because the light source comes from a small set of angles very close to the camera. Advanced photographers address this problem by using bounce flash, a technique ... -
A computational bow-spring model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Bow-springs find few applications in industry. Principally, they are used in archery. In addition, they have found some use in a compression-spring mode in the field of biomechatronics, to emulate elastic human legs. The ... -
A computational characterization of domain-based causal reasoning development in children
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)To better understand human intelligence, we must first understand how humans use and learn from stories. One important aspect of how humans learn from stories is our ability to reason about cause and eect. Psychological ... -
Computational characterization of radiation-induced defect dynamics and material response
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)Material degradation due to radiation damage poses serious concern on the reliability and durability of any reactor design. To understand material performance under the extreme environments combining high temperature and ... -
Computational comparative genomics : genes, regulation, evolution
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)Understanding the biological signals encoded in a genome is a key challenge of computational biology. These signals are encoded in the four-nucleotide alphabet of DNA and are responsible for all molecular processes in the ... -
Computational complexity of certain quantum theories in 1+1 dimensions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)While physical theories attempt to break down the observed structure and behavior of possibly large and complex systems to short descriptive axioms, the perspective of a computer scientist is to start with simple and ... -
Computational crowd camera : enabling remote-vision via sparse collective plenoptic sampling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)In this thesis, I present a near real-time algorithm for interactively exploring a collectively captured moment without explicit 3D reconstruction. This system favors immediacy and local coherency to global consistency. ... -
A computational design analysis and generation of R.M. Schindler houses
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)A computational design study of a portion of R.M. Schindler's California houses was performed with the object of creating computational rules to generate designs in Schindler's style. Houses from 1928-1942 with a general ... -
Computational Design and Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)Design of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) currently relies heavily on rule-ofthumb techniques shared among those in the field, with many designs ending up with thousands of custom-made components that are not readily ... -
Computational design and fabrication of portable MRI systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)In this work, I have developed techniques for designing portable MRI scanners and have applied them to three portable systems for brain imaging. I first describe the procedue for designing a portable, low-field MRI scanner ... -
Computational design and optimization of infrastructure policy in water and agriculture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)Investments in infrastructure tend to be associated with high capital costs, creating a necessity for tools to prioritize and evaluate different infrastructure investment options. This thesis provides a survey of computational ... -
Computational design for the next manufacturing revolution
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Over the next few decades, we are going to transition to a new economy where highly complex, customizable products are manufactured on demand by flexible robotic systems. In many fields, this shift has already begun. 3D ...