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Principles for Engineered Emergence (slides)
(2007-04-12)
Principles for Engineered EmergenceIt is difficult to establish engineering control over the behavior ofaggregates of unreliable devices with complicated interactionpatterns. I take a linguistic view of this problem, ...
Tiny images
(2007-04-23)
The human visual system is remarkably tolerant to degradations in image resolution: in a scene recognition task, human performance is similar whether $32 \times 32$ color images or multi-mega pixel images are used. With ...
Beyond the Bits: Cooperative Packet Recovery Using Physical Layer Information
(2007-05-29)
Wireless networks can suffer from high packet loss rates. This paper shows that the loss rate can be significantly reduced by exposing information readily available at the physical layer. We make the physical layer convey ...
Amorphous Computing
(2007)
The goal of amorphous computing is to identify organizationalprinciples and create programming technologies for obtainingintentional, pre-specified behavior from the cooperation of myriadunreliable parts that are arranged ...
Team MIT Urban Challenge Technical Report
(2007-12-14)
This technical report describes Team MIT s approach to theDARPA Urban Challenge. We have developed a novel strategy forusing many inexpensive sensors, mounted on the vehicle periphery,and calibrated with a new cross-modal ...
Quantitative Information Flow as Network Flow Capacity
(2007-12-10)
We present a new technique for determining how much information abouta program's secret inputs is revealed by its public outputs. Incontrast to previous techniques based on reachability from secretinputs (tainting), it ...
Verifiably Secure Devices
(2007-12-05)
We put forward the notion of a verifiably secure device, in essence a stronger notion of secure computation, and achieve it in the ballot-box model. Verifiably secure devices1. Provide a perfect solution to the problem of ...
Analysis of a finite element formulation for modelling phase separation
(Springer, 2007)
The Cahn-Hilliard equation is of importance in materials science and a range of other fields. It represents a diffuse interface model for simulating the evolution of phase separation in solids and fluids, and is a nonlinear ...
Nano-Bio-Genesis: Tracing the rise of nanotechnology and nanobiotechnology as 'big science'
(2007-07-14)
Abstract Nanotechnology research has lately been of intense interest because of its perceived potential for many diverse fields of science. Nanotechnology's tools have found application in diverse fields, from biology to ...
Factors Affecting the Adoption of Faculty-Developed Academic Software: A Study of Five iCampus Projects
(2007-10-20)
Instruction in higher education must adapt more rapidly to: changes in workforce needs, global issues, advances in disciplines, and resource constraints. The pace of such improvement depends on the speed with which new ...