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A knowledge-network model of scientific communities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
The amount of information organizations possess now days is overwhelming and the need of being capable of extracting valuable knowledge from such large amount of information is imperative. This thesis presents a software ...
Singing voice analysis/synthesis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
The singing voice is the oldest and most variable of musical instruments. By combining music, lyrics, and expression, the voice is able to affect us in ways that no other instrument can. As listeners, we are innately drawn ...
Growing up virtual : the computational lessons of development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Cognitive development is one of nature's most important mechanisms for creating robustly adaptive intelligent creatures. From felids to oscines, developing animals are capable of learning in adverse environments with a ...
City-Car : optimizing vehicle and urban efficiencies through a shared adaptive platform
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
Research focused on developing an innovative, yet simple automobile platform that maximizes its efficiency through shared convenience. Work was initially put into studying both current vehicles and urban architecture, in ...
Romantic regressions : an analysis of behavior in online dating systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Online personal advertisements have shed their stigma as matchmakers for the awkward to claim a prominent role in the social lives of millions of people. Web sites for online dating allow users to post lengthy personal ...
Social signaling in decision making
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
Nonverbal communication is an important and often underestimated instrument in social interactions. The paralinguistic elements of speech, which are described in common speech as "tone of voice", are one channel of the ...
State discovery for autonomous learning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
This thesis is devoted to the study of algorithms for early perceptual learning for an autonomous agent in the presence of feedback. In the framework of associative perceptual learning with indirect supervision, three ...
Folk computing : designing technology to support face-to-face community building
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Creating common ground in a community of people who do not all know each other is a chicken-and-egg problem: members do not share enough common ground to support the kinds of conversations that help build it. "Folk Computing" ...
Digital technology for conviviality : making the most of students' energy and imagination in learning environments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
This thesis contributes to the body of research on constructionist philosophy. It expands the conceptual framework to a broader scale by linking constructionism to Ivan Illich's notion of conviviality. An emphasis on ...
A quantitative, parametric model of musical tension
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This thesis presents a quantitative, parametric model for describing musical tension. While the phenomenon of tension is evident to listeners, it is difficult to formalize due to its subjective and multi-dimensional nature. ...