I am looking for new students. My current research focus is enabling robots to learn strategies (tricks, hacks) to do tasks from direct instruction, googling and using the web, observation, and ...

Multi-core processors are common in today’s computers, but they were still science fiction in the early 1970s. But when CMU researchers found their existing machines too slow to keep pace with the ...

15-210 aims to teach methods for designing, analyzing, and programming sequential and parallel algorithms and data structures. The emphasis is on teaching fundamental concepts applicable across a wide ...

Using our rigorous statistical methodology, we have analyzed ads served by Google. We explored how they are related to the interests Google claims to infer about people at its Ad Settings webpage. We ...

This is a guide to editing and executing Standard ML (SML) programs at Carnegie Mellon University, using the Standard ML of New Jersey system. This document was written by Peter Lee ([email protected]) ...

To free wearable tech from the burden of batteries, SCS researchers developed Power-Over-Skin, which allows electricity to travel through the human body and could one day power battery-free devices ...

This paper presents a method for constructing smooth unit n-direction fields (line fields, cross fields, etc.) on surfaces that is an order of magnitude faster than state-of-the-art methods, while ...

What's the connection between how many bits we can send over a channel and how accurately we can classify documents or fit a curve to data? Is there any connection between decision trees, prefix codes ...

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A technical introduction to the fundamentals of programming with an emphasis on producing clear, robust, and reasonably efficient code using top-down design, informal analysis, and effective testing ...

Define state-value and (true) state value of an MDP Define Q-value and (true) Q value of an MDP The idea of discounting stems from the common idea that a reward now is better than the same reward ...

L. Ron Hubbard raised Scientology from Dianetics' ashes with the aid of a device that tracks electrical resistance on skin surfaces of the "auditee's" hands during sessions. Hubbard claimed that ...