We report the demonstration of a new type of true random number generator based on the random distribution of the time interval between photons from a single-photon-like source. The experimental setup is simple and robust against mechanical and temperature disturbances. With improved detector resolution and efficiency, the random number bit rate could be increased by more than an order of magni...

Often, teachers plan for instructional activities, yet fail to cues they would use facilitate skill acquisition among students. During practical lesson delivery, it is ideal cue (IC) of the teacher be short, descriptive and integrated in a manner that promotes students’ retention information necessary learners execute correctly. Teachers should avoid lengthy unnecessary ICs teaching learning en...

This is a demonstration of a platform for building practical, task-oriented, end-to-end dialog systems. Whereas traditional dialog systems consists of a pipeline of components such as intent detection, state tracking, and action selection, an endto-end dialog system is driven by a machine learning model which takes observable dialog history as input, and directly outputs a distribution over dia...

Previous research on attitude accessibility has found that accessible attitudes influence both visual and cognitive attention. Smith, Fazio, and Cejka (1996), for instance, found that categories towards which we have accessible attitudes are more likely to be brought to mind when assessing a related object. Research in our lab (Young & Fazio, in prep) has found evidence that not only are catego...

Measuring development, growth and welfare is an important issue in normative and positive economics.The issue is more critical in developing economies where a good statistical indicator of income, livingstandard or poverty is crucial for decision-makers in corporate, government, non-government andinternational organizations in their for-profit or non-profit plans to promote business and trade, ...

Rough terrain autonomous navigation continues to pose a challenge to the robotics community. Robust navigation by a mobile robot depends not only on the individual performance of perception and planning systems, but on how well these systems are coupled. When traversing complex unstructured terrain, this coupling (in the form of a cost function) has a large impact on robot behavior and performa...

In cyber-physical systems, software may control safety-significant operations. This report discusses a method to structure software testing to measure the statistical confidence that algorithms are true to their intended design. The subject matter appears in two main parts: theory, which shows the relationship between discrete systems theory, software, and the actuated automaton; and applicatio...

Demonstration learning is a powerful and practical technique to develop robot behaviors. Even so, development remains a challenge and possible demonstration limitations, for example correspondence issues between the robot and demonstrator, can degrade policy performance. This work presents an approach for policy improvement through a tactile interface located on the body of the robot. We introd...