In the exciting field of quantum computation, the performance of quantum bits (‘qubits’) is advancing rapidly. Among several implementations currently being pursued, superconductor-based circuits ...
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Quantum computing is expected to revolutionize the field of computation and provide major improvements for optimization, modeling and cryptography. Over the course of decades, different methods to mak...
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) encompasses a wide cluster of neurodevelopmental disorders. Alongside the core social communication and repetitive behavior symptoms of ASD, there are common reports of ...
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The proliferation of LEDs for ambient lighting is driving smart lighting technologies. Visible light communication (VLC) is an emerging technology that uses LEDs as transmitters and light sensors (e.g...
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Airport travelers, retail shoppers and hospital visitors are a few of the millions of people who could benefit from improved indoor positioning. Yet even after decades of research, a simple and robust...
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As data is shuffled around in computer networks, important components called middleboxes (also called network functions or NFs) examine and modify network traffic to meet security requirements, perfor...
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A significant amount of time and power is spent waiting for processors to retrieve instructions and data from distant levels of memory. One approach to mitigate access latency (delay) is to use a thre...
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Sophisticated wireless transceivers transmit digital data encoded into a physical signal such as a radio wave. The encoding process changes multiple bits making up a data unit into symbols that descri...
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Rich, high quality media content is becoming increasingly available through the Internet. As a result, user expectation of accessing such content over wireless-enabled devices continues to grow. While...
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The widespread use of wireless communication applications in daily life has resulted in an increased need for power and bandwidth efficiency in emerging wireless transceivers. Two recent technological...
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The rise of wireless technology use in daily life has increased the need for electrically-small antennas with performance levels that exceed conventional limits. An electrically-small antenna is an an...
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Antennas that are electrically small, those with dimensions relatively diminutive compared to the size of the wavelengths they radiate, are integral to radio engineering, from wireless garage door ope...
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Mechanical engineers commonly employ a software modeling tool called finite element analysis (FEA) to virtually simulate a design prior to physical prototyping.  In FEA, a three dimensional (3-D) mod...
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The bandwidth of a computer network is a measure of the rate of data transfer.  Limits on bandwidth may result from physical limitations of the media as well as processing limitations.  Increasing b...
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System-on-Chip (SoC) is a technique for designing complex integrated circuits using circuit ‘building blocks’ developed by different companies. Electronic files describing each building block are...
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Cloud computing is an emerging model for the delivery and consumption of information technology (IT) resources. Infrastructure-as-a-service cloud providers deliver virtual servers along with network c...
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Removal of heat from electronic circuitry is one of the limiting factors in the design and performance of most computer systems. One current method of heat removal involves using a cone-shaped spray t...
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The most salient feature of wireless communication channels is signal propagation over multiple scattering paths. Although this so-called multipath signal propagation leads to undesirable signal fadin...
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Computer networks function by connecting spatially separated computers with “links” – electrical conductors, fiber optics and radio waves.  The majority of network protocols work by dividing a ...
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Modern processors and operating systems support virtual memory. Programs running on the system access (read or write) data using virtual addresses that differ from the physical address of the data in ...
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With recent advancements in digital imaging, image sensors have become popular for capturing motion in 3-D. However, measuring small scale motion such as fine hand gestures across a user interface rem...
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Science and engineering education faces important challenges in terms of meeting US workforce needs. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that total employment in science and engineering will in...
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Parallel processing enables simultaneous data processing tasks to increase computational speed. To leverage this capability with multiprocessors, first an ordered multiprocessor program defines the or...
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An optical resonator is an arrangement of optical components that allows a beam of light to circulate in a closed path. Nanoresonators are a type of optical resonator that can effectively concentrate ...
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In a phased-array antenna the relative phases of the signals feeding the antennas are varied in such a way that the effective radiation pattern is reinforced in a desired direction and suppressed in u...
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