Theory Throw Down

Throw Down an AI Challenge

Students will be more likely motivated to pursue a field of study if they encounter relevant, exciting, and interesting challenges early in their studies. The NSF CCLI project “Machine Learning Laboratory Experiences for Introducing Undergraduates to Artificial Intelligence” uses machine learning as a unifying theme to teach diverse artificial intelligence (AI) topics in the context of an intro...

Do not throw equations out with the theory bathwater.

In a recent PNAS paper (1), Fawcett and Higginson analyze citation data for biological journals and conclude that overall citation rate is reduced by including equations in papers. As a serial offender in this regard, I found the paper interesting, if troubling. Here I show that an alternative analysis reveals a more complex picture and suggest an alternative explanation for the pattern. The mo...

Throw Your Smartphone

The Android app developed in this work enables the user to take aerial photographs by throwing the smartphone in the air. This involved overcoming inherent limitations of the underlying system, such as camera lag and sensor saturation. A motion detection algorithm is proposed which reliably detects the stages of a vertical throw and copes with the system’s limitation. Experiments show that the ...

DOD: “ Let’s throw 'em

By Ted Price During the past academic year, several o f the n a t io n ’s leading colleges and universities have chosen to downgrade the ROTC program, among them Yale, Harvard, Stanford nad Joh ns Hopkins. T he adm inis tra t ions of these schools have come under fire for these moves as the pro-ROTC backlash has become more and more evident. The editors o f Yale A lu m n i Magazine described th...

Throw me a line.