Eulogy to Dr. Gisela Del Pino. “I swear ... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents ...”

To My Parents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I thank my advisor Dr. Aria Nosratinia for providing me with the opportunity to work as graduate student with him. I express my gratitude to Dr. Nosratinia for his guidance, support and confidence he has shown in my work. I also thank him for instilling a sense of curiosity to learn new things in me.

To my Parents

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To my parents

In this thesis I take a modular approach to cortical function. I investigate how the cerebral cortex may realise a number of basic computational tasks, within the framework of its generic architecture. I present novel mechanisms for certain assumed computational capabilities of the cerebral cortex, building on the established notions of attractor memory and sparse coding. A sparse binary coding...

Dedication To My parents

A self-homodyne photonic receiver for transmitted carrier wireless links isdemonstrated. The key innovations in this photonic RF-receiver are the design andimplementation of a resonant LiNbO3 microdisk electro-optic modulator and novelRF down-conversion techniques that exploit the sensitivity of the microdisk forefficient RF down-conversion in the optical domain. By careful RF a...

To My Parents