Bacterial chemotaxis is the locomotory response of bacteria to chemical stimuli. E. coli movement can be described as a biased random walk, and it is known that the general biological or evolutionary function is to increase ...

As silicon MOSFETs keep scaling down in size, the continued improvement on their logic performance is threated by their fundamental physical limits. With silicon approaching these limits, MOSFETs designed with III-V ...

This work studies the effect of mechanically applied uniaxial strain on reverse-bias band-to-band tunneling current in n+/p+ vertical silicon diodes fabricated on {100} and {110} substrate orientations. The Band Structure ...

Traditional oblivious routing algorithms either do not take into account the bandwidth demand, or assume that each flow has its own private channel to guarantee deadlock freedom. Though adaptive routing schemes can react ...

BayesDB, a Bayesian database table, lets users query the probable implications of their tabular data as easily as an SQL database lets them query the data itself. Using the built-in Bayesian Query Language (BQL), users ...

This thesis examines two distinct but related problems in low-level computer vision: color constancy and blind-image deconvolution. The goal of the former is to separate the effect of global illumination from other properties ...