Computing is highly segregated and stratified by gender. While there is abundant scholarship investigating this problem, emerging evidence suggests that a hierarchy of value exists between the social and technical dimensions of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and this plays a role in the underrepresentation of women in the field. This ethnographic study of women's experiences in computin...

In 1995, an intercomparison on room acoustics computer simulations was launched, the so-called round robin I. The object of interest was a mid-sized auditorium. That project also included a small measurement project, where sessions of impulse response measurements were carried out with several teams and instrumentation. Since that time, the variations in the results obtained by computer simulat...

Current research in Information Extraction tends to be focused on application-specific systems tailored to a particular domain. The Muse system is a multi-purpose Named Entity recognition system which aims to reduce the need for costly and time-consuming adaptation of systems to new applications, with its capability for processing texts from widely differing domains and genres. Although the sys...

A modern automotive system is a complex electromechanical system, whose comfort, safety and performance requirements have warranted their implementation by way of multiple number of Electronic Control Units (ECUs) in it. ECUs, the fundamental building blocks of any automotive subsystem used to be relatively simple, hardware oriented systems. Today, they are multi-purpose, multi-chip computer sy...

Computers are becoming indispensable for manipulating most everyday consumer products, ranging from communications and domestic electronics to industrial processes monitoring and control. High performance computer design is not only subject to the technology used for its implementation, it is also a matter of efficient training. The skills that must prevail in a good computer designer come from...

The Church-Turing thesis states that any sufficiently powerful computational model which captures the notion of algorithm is computationally equivalent to the Turing machine. This equivalence usually holds both at a computability level and at a computational complexity level modulo polynomial reductions. However, the situation is less clear in what concerns models of computation using real numb...

A device for recording and encoding voice stimuli was developed with the NEC-PC 9801 micro computer. Sampling times are 100 microseconds (10 kHz), and one recording time can be lasted up to 15 s. The sound stimuli are monitored on the computer display. These stimuli could be edited directly by the cursor and saved onto a floppy disk. A multi purpose program was also developed for this apparatus...

We consider various extensions and modifications of Shannon’s General Purpose Analog Computer, which is a model of computation by differential equations in continuous time. We show that several classical computation classes have natural analog counterparts, including the primitive recursive functions, the elementary functions, the levels of the Grzegorczyk hierarchy, and the arithmetical and an...

We review some results about the computational power of several computational models. Considered models have in common to be related to continuous dynamical systems. 1 Dynamical Systems and Polynomial Cauchy Problems A polynomial Cauchy problem is a Cauchy problem of type { x′ = p(x, t) x(0) = x0 where p(x, t) is a vector of polynomials, and x0 is some initial condition. The class of functions ...

Using social science methods to induce a state of frustration in users, we collected physiological , video and behavioral data, and developed a strategy for coupling these data with real-world events. The eeectiveness of the proposed strategy was tested in a study with thirty-six subjects , where the system was shown to reliably synchronize and gather data for aaect analysis. Hidden Markov Mode...