Gap-fill questions are fill-in-the-blank questions which consist of a sentence with one or more gaps (blanks) and a number of choices for each gap. Such questions play crucial roles in creating test materials and tutorial dialogues. In this paper, we present a system that automatically generates such questions by exploiting previously recorded student-tutor interactions with an Intelligent Tuto...

Three-dimensional (3D) integration is considered to be the most promising solution for the continuing improvement in device performance,[1] while the scaling of Si CMOS is approaching its economical and physical limits. Inter Chip Fill (ICF) resin, filled between the gaps of 3D stacked chips, is expected to improve the mechanical strength and corrosion resistance of such chips. Pre-applied resi...

We investigate the performance of a combination of sophisticated local symmetric ordering methods with a simple symmetrization step on a test set of Jacobians obtained from modified nodal equations. It is demonstrated that using such ordering heuristics as a replacement for Markowitz’ algorithm may accelerate circuit simulation significantly.