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The Industrial Fellowships of the Mellon Institute.

Dr. B. T. Galloway, Mr. Charles F. Deering and Professor W. D. Crocker were elected to membership. The program of the evening was devoted to the subject of "The Relation of Plant Succession to Forestry and Grazing." Mr. C. G. Bates discussed the natural regeneration of forest stands in the climax formations of the Rocky Mountain region and called attention especially to the temporary control of...

Introducing Carnegie-Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (Research in Progress)

Carnegie-Mellon University has established a Robotics Institute to bring its expertise in Engineering, Science, and Industrial Administration to bear upon the problem of national industrial productivity The Institute has been established to undertake advanced research and development in seeing, thinking robots and intelligent systems, and to facilitate transfer of this technology to industry Th...

Vision-Based Autonomous Helicopter Research at Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute 1991-1997

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Institute of Technology System Safety as an Emergent Property in Composite Systems

Correctly specifying requirements for composite systems is essential to system safety. In a distributed development environment, safety requirements must be clearly defined for subsystems. Unfortunately, decomposing non-functional requirements, also known as goals, is not always straightforward. Quantifiable goals, such as cost or performance, may be decomposed by allocating a fixed limit on ea...

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Due to small, “sub-excitonic” dimensions, semiconductor nanocrystals can produce novel electronic interactions that involve charges residing in intrinsic quantized states as well as species located at nanocrystal surfaces. Strong interactions between quantum-confined carriers open, for example, a new nanocrystal-speci fic energy relaxation channel associated with Augertype electron-hole energy ...