The area of approximation algorithms is aimed at giving provable guarantees on the performance of heuristics for hard problems. The course will present general techniques (such as convex ...

AI Scholars take a deep dive into the world of artificial intelligence through a combination of classroom instruction, hands-on research projects, faculty lectures and industry engagement with leading ...

GiRaF is a computational tool for identification of reassortments in influenza viruses from sequence databases of isolates. Reassortments in influenza - a process where strains exchange genetic ...

Note: The following text was written by Linus on July 31 1992. It is a collection of various artifacts from the period in which Linux first began to take shape. This is just a sentimental journey into ...

They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank--the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.

The lowest level of auditing in Scientology consists of what are called the "objective processes." These are often programmed for a newcomer to Scientology after he has completed the introductory ...

Lectures notes and slides from the SIGGRAPH '97 course, ...

While at DARPA, I was unable to write for my blog. But watch this space for new posts, as soon as I get settled at Microsoft.

Overall Approach: The programmable headlight is a co-located imaging and illumination system consisting of a camera, processor, and spatial light modulator (SLM). The camera captures images of the ...

Take turns with the computer. On each turn, you may take 1, 2, or 3 marbles. Whoever takes the last marble loses, so choose carefully!

Figure 5: Nine different weighting functions. The Gaussian function used by Vizier is the leftmost function in the middle row. Then a prediction is made with the weighted average: Figure 6: Kernel ...

There is no required textbook for the course. All material we expect you to be familiar with will be covered in sufficient detail in the lectures and lecture notes. There is an optional (and free!) ...