Despite long development periods for neuroprosthetic devices, the numbers in clinical use or clinical trials are rising, with an estimated 3,000 systems in use today. As they gain experience with the regulatory approval process, developers are learning to conduct research to best prepare for transfer of technology to industry. The track record of the first motor prosthesis to be approved by the...

INFO-RNA is a new web server for designing RNA sequences that fold into a user given secondary structure. Furthermore, constraints on the sequence can be specified, e.g. one can restrict sequence positions to a fixed nucleotide or to a set of nucleotides. Moreover, the user can allow violations of the constraints at some positions, which can be advantageous in complicated cases. The INFO-RNA we...

This paper develops an incomplete contract model of the licensing relationship that is susceptible to the moral hazard problem. The optimal contractual form of licensing derived in the model generates predictions that seem to be consistent with actual practice. For instance, the introduction of inputs that are not contractible and costly explains the prevalence of royalty contracts in the licen...

This paper reports on a specific food and agribusiness industry project, employing new technological capabilities to better transfer expert knowledge. Knowledge transfer and technical support are key components of this project. VisIT, which stands for Visualization of Information Tool, is a powerful organizational tool, which provides an Internet-based graphical learning environment. As a means...

In this project, Entropic will serve as a technology transfer agent for the Speech and Language Systems (SLS) program. Our ultimate goal is to make complete systems developed in the course of SLS research readily available to interested parties in government, education, and industry. An intermediate goal is to provide clean, well documented implementations of speech recognition systems such as ...

We propose, as a challenge to the software engineering research community, a new view of software engineering as technology transition. In this view, the role of software engineering is to take the initial results of theorists and harden these results to the point where they are ready to be used in fielded, commercial systems. Current techniques for software verification, while adequate for ser...

Mr. V.I. Zinchenko (Deputy Governor for Research, Innovation Policy and Education, Tomsk Region) greeted the workshop participants and noted that the workshop was taking place concurrently with a Siberian Innovation Forum that addressed how Siberian regions could achieve a greater links between their science establishments and local industry. He emphasized the need to encourage the greater part...