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Research Intern June – August 2013 Motorola Solutions Inc., Chicago, IL • Supervisor: Yan-Ming Cheng, Senior Research Manager, CTO. • Worked in a spoken dialog project that aimed to support natural language queries to relational databases. • Developed a rule-based approach to convert a relational database schema to a relational ontology in RDF specification, which focused on the semantics betwe...

Composition Context Photography Daniel André Vaquero In the digital point-and-shoot photography paradigm, users typically point the camera at the subjects, adjust framing, and trigger functions such as autofocus in preparation for taking a picture. This dissertation explores the opportunities for expanding the outcome of the point-and-shoot photography process by utilizing additional informatio...

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