Microsoft’’s’’ popular game console, the Xbox, combined the possibility of compelling training efficiencies with formidable obstacles to development, both in terms of the business model, the limitation of the Windows 2000 computer inside it and the system’’s standard humanmachine interface. In its mission to leverage the capabilities of the entertainment industry to develop next-generation simu...

We study a firing squad synchronization problem that gives a finite-state protocol for synchronizing large-scale cellular automata. In this paper, we give a survey on recent developments in designing optimumand non-optimum-time synchronization algorithms and present their state-efficient implementations for two-dimensional cellular arrays. Several simple, state-efficient mapping schemes are pro...

In this project, we exploit several deep learning architectures in Question Answering field, based on the newly released Stanford Question Answering dataset (SQuAD)[7]. We introduce a multi-stage process that encodes context paragraphs at different levels of granularity, uses co-attention mechanism to fuse representations of questions and context paragraphs, and finally decodes the co-attention...

One important task in Natural Language Understanding is Reading Comprehension. Given a piece of text, we want to be able to answer any relevant questions. Using Stanford Question Answering Dataset(SQuAD), which is a new reading comprehension dataset consisting of 100,000+ questions posed by crowdworkers on a set of Wikipedia articles, we built a reading comprehension model that attains 75.2% F1...

Computer games have increasingly been the focus of user-led innovations in form of games mods. This paper examines how different kinds of socio-technical affordances serve to organize and govern the actions of the people who develop and share their game mods. The affordances examined include customization and tailoring mechanisms, software and content copyright licenses, game software infrastru...

The Firing Squad Synchronization Problem (FSSP) is one of the best-studied problems for Cellular Automata (CA) and is part of many more sophisticated algorithms. Solutions for it such as the one from Mazoyer or Gerken use travelling signals, a basic technique of CA algorithms. Hence in addition to their importance, they represent typical CA algorithms. Beside the interest in their bandwidth fol...

in this study, aggregation behavior of a water soluble cationic metalloporphyrin, meso-tetrakis (2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-n,n´,n´´-trimethyl ammonium phenyl) porphyrin nickel(ii) [ni(ii)(tf4tmapp)]4+ is investigated in 5 mm aqueous phosphate buffer of ph 7.0 at 25.0 °c and various ionic strengths using optical absorption and resonance light scattering spectroscopic methods. the results suggest that ...

using uv-vis spectrophotometic method, the formation constants for interaction of cd2+(aq) andco2+(aq) ions with l-alanine were experimentally studied at ph = 4.1 ± 0.01 (50mm of potassiumhydrogen phthalate buffer), ionic strength of 0.1m potassium nitrate and at 5 differenttemperatures 15,20, 25,30 and 35°c. the optical absorption spectra of mixtures containingconsidered cations and l-alanine ...