In general, automatic speech recognition (ASR) algorithms are designed for use with pure, anechoic signals. Although ASR systems approach a human’s intelligibility for clean signals, it is well acknowledged that a downfall ...

Drug development is inefficient and expensive, with less than 10% of drug candidates entering clinical trials proceeding to market, and each costing an estimated $2.5 billion. This inefficiency is due to several reasons, ...

This dissertation focuses on two different but related natural language processing problems, namely, question answering and question generation. Automated question answering (QA) is the process of finding answers to natural ...

Let X ∈ R n×d be a data matrix of rank ρ, representing n points in R d . The linear support vector machine constructs a hyperplane separator that maximizes the 1-norm soft margin. We develop a new oblivious dimension ...

In an ever-evolving digital world, the onset of the Internet of Things leads to a new problem in secure communications. Embedded devices may lack the computational power to generate high entropy random numbers for cryptographic ...

With the increasing popularity of multi-use performance halls, variable acoustic systems are in high demand. User interfaces with presets are often used to switch between various acoustical settings in which users select ...

Industrial heritage sites are locations that exemplify both public memory and the rhetoric of technology. In this dissertation, I interpret three examples of industrial heritage sites to identify and characterize their ...

The numerical simulation of neutron transport within a nuclear reactor—for brevity, reactor physics—is the foundation on which analysts: design new reactors; license existing designs; prolong the licenses of operating ...