A Composition Class That Teaches Itself: Structuring an Effective Collaborative Conversation

A Robot that Teaches Itself to Clear Clutter

Outdoor robots, such as search-and-rescue robots and planetary rovers, often need to grasp and push objects such as debris and rocks that have irregular shapes. While most object manipulation techniques require mechanical or geometric models of the objects, objects that are encountered in outdoor environments do not typically have any known models. To grasp unknown novel objects, data-driven ap...

Astroversity - The Development of a Network Learning Game that Teaches Collaborative Techniques

A Mind That Found Itself

Mind that Found Itself. By Clifford Whittingham Beers. New York and London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1908. Pp. 362. "A Mind that Found Itself" is a wonderfully graphic account of the wandering of a mind set adrift, recorded by that mind after it had once more found its moorings. The author describes, as only one who has experienced them can describe, the vividly realistic hallucinations and terri...

A Chip That Focuses an Image on Itself

In the modeling of neural systems, time is often treated as a sequencer, rather than as an expresser of information. We believe that this point of view is restricted, and that in biological neural systems, time is used throughout as one of the fundamental representational dimensions. We have developed this conviction partially because we model neural circuitry in analog VLSI, where time is a na...

Composition by Conversation

Most musical programming languages are developed purely for coding virtual instruments or algorithmic compositions. Although there has been some work in the domain of musical query languages for music information retrieval, there has been little attempt to unify the principles of musical programming and query languages with cognitive and natural language processing models that would facilitate ...