I n the modern competitive world, Research and Development (R&D) and its overflowing technologies are the main basis of innovation, which in turn, can be determined as an important source of economic growth. Investing in research activities can help firms with different technological levels, especially high-tech industries to improve their productivity. This paper aims to analyze the...

Technology maturity assessment metrics have played a key role in complex system acquisition and technology integration in both the defense and commercial sector. Of these, the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) Technology Readiness Level (TRL) has been the de facto standard since it’s inception in the late 1990s. DoD adopted the use of TRLs to provide program managers with critical informatio...

Tech startups typically approach requirements gathering differently from the process that is used to develop requirements in existing businesses and for existing products. Many of these startups operate in "stealth mode", taking care to minimize the number of people with whom they share their innovative ideas. It’s common for these startups to create a succession of early releases, and apply us...

Silicon Valley is home to many of the world’s largest technology corporations, as well as thousands of small startups. Despite the development of other high-tech economic centers throughout the US and around the world, Silicon Valley continues to be a leading hub for high-tech innovation and development, in part because most of its companies and universities are within 20 miles of each other. G...

Individuals change their behavior during an epidemic in response to whether they and/or those they interact with are healthy or sick. Healthy individuals are concerned about contracting a disease from their sick contacts and may utilize protective measures. Sick individuals may be concerned with spreading the disease to their healthy contacts and adopt preemptive measures. Yet, in practice both...

The overall objective of this paper is to describe ongoing research programs in the Medical Informatics Laboratory in the Bioengineering Center of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Current research projects are highly interdisciplinary, spanning such areas as computer vision and image processing, arti cial intelligence, and computer graphics and visualization. In general, the emphasis of the...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effects on weight loss of three abbreviated behavioral weight loss interventions with and without coaching and mobile technology. METHODS A randomized controlled efficacy study of three 6-month weight loss treatments was conducted in 96 adults with obesity: 1) self-guided (SELF), 2) standard (STND), or 3) technology-supported (TECH). STND and TECH received eight in-...

Originally founded in 1996, recently reorganized and refocused, the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech is an organization that is paving the way toward understanding the most difficult and relevant challenges emerging as concerns in human-computer interaction. The HCI community can expect new levels of leadership and diverse research contributions from this core group resear...

LONGQI YANG, Cornell Tech, Cornell University CHENG-KANG HSIEH, University of California, Los Angeles HONGJIAN YANG, Cornell Tech, Cornell University JOHN P. POLLAK, Cornell Tech, Cornell University NICOLA DELL, Cornell Tech, The Jacobs Institute, Cornell University SERGE BELONGIE, Cornell Tech, Cornell University CURTIS COLE, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University DEBORAH ESTRIN, Co...