Research on computer-supported collaborative learning faces the challenge of extending student collaboration to higher social levels and enabling cross-boundary interaction. This study investigated knowledge building among four Grade 5 classroom communities that studied human body systems with support Idea Thread Mapper (ITM). While students in each collaborated their local (home) discourse spa...

Lager is an integrated CAD system for algorithmspecific IC design. It consists of a behavioral mapper and a silicon assembler. To generate a chip from a behavioral description, the user specifies both the behavioral description and a parameterized structural description. The behavioral mapper maps the behavior onto the parameterized structure to produce microcode and parameter values. The silic...

Moon Mineralogy Mapper/Chandrayaan-1. Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M) is one of eleven instruments selected to fly onboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft in 2008. M, selected as a NASA Discovery Mission of Opportunity in May, 2004, is a high spatial and spectral resolution spectrometer that will help scientists better understand the compositional variation of the Moon’s surface. Ms overall science...

In this report we present our work plan in the development of a PhD thesis on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for unstructured environments. In the first part of this document we introduce the problem, then we present the basic tools for Bayesian state estimation, and give a summary of the state of the art in the field. In the second part we present our work plan, together with our recent...

In this paper I argue that semantic similarity is not the only factor which motivates polysemy patterns cross-linguistically; I also show that these other factors (markedness, distinguishability, etc) may give rise to polysemies which are problematic for established semantic maps. Only when these other interfering factors, both functional and structural, are featured out, does a semantic networ...

Computational grids assemble multisite and multiowner resources and represent the most promising solutions for processing distributed computationally intensive applications, each composed by a collection of communicating tasks. The execution of an application on a grid presumes three successive steps: the localization of the available resources together with their characteristics and status; th...

To support FPGA synthesis in the OAGear package, we have implemented the following new components: (i) a cut-based technology mapper for LUT-based FPGA with delay/area optimization options, (ii) an efficient SAT-based Boolean matcher (SAT-BM) for both single-output and multipleoutput Boolean functions, and (iii) an area-aware resynthesis algorithm using this SAT-BM. The SAT-BM incorporates the ...

Idiograms are graphical representations in which chromosomes appear ordered by their relative size, homology groups, and the presence of cytogenetic landmarks such as centromeres, secondary constrictions, banding patterns. They have become crucial elements research. Here, we describe a simple protocol for spreadsheet software to draw idiograms map any type sequence onto them. These graphs can b...