Entropy: Unpacking the form through post digital making

Unpacking Transnational Policy: Learning to Bridge the Digital Divide

Learning to Bridge the Digital Divide is a text produced by, and apparently primarily intended for, educational policy makers on national and international levels. Its genesis is located in the Fifth NCAL/OECD Roundtable entitled The Lifelong Learning and New Technologies Gap: Reaching the Disadvantaged, held at the U.S. National Center on Adult Literacy (NCAL), University of Pennsylvania, 8-10...

Making brain-computer interfaces better improving usability through post-processing

Digital Making

This thesis examines the underlying issues innate to the design process of developing architectural solutions using the digital for "making" architecture, focusing on architectural production. It proposes an alternative method for fabricating architecture that supports a fast, inexpensive design process using a combination of digital modeling (explicit or with generative methods) and computer c...

Mitigating Timing Noise in ADCs through Digital Post-Processing

The accuracy of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) is greatly affected by the uniformity of the times at which samples of the analog input signal are taken. The error in the sample times, known as jitter, or timing noise, has a non-linear, time-varying and input-dependent effect on the sample values, as opposed to the additive noise usually considered. At present, the error due to jitter is mi...

Making Maximum Entropy Computations Easier

This paper presents a new way to compute the probability distribution with maximum entropy satisfying a set of constraints. Unlike previous approaches , our method is integrated with the planning of data collection and tabulation. We show how adding constraints and performing the associated additional tabulations can substantially speed up computation by replacing the usual iterative techniques...