Ad targeting is getting more powerful with introduction of new tools, such as Custom Audiences, behavioral targeting, and Audience Insights. Although this is beneficial for businesses as it enables people to receive more relevant advertising, the power of the tools has downsides. In this paper, we focus on three downsides: privacy violations, microtargeting (i.e., the ability to reach a specifi...

The need for rapid and cost-effective development Intelligent Tutoring Systems with flexible pedagogical approaches has led to a demand for authoring tools. The authoring systems developed to date provide a range of options and flexibility, such as authoring simulations, or authoring tutoring strategies. This paper describes FlexiTrainer, an authoring framework that enables the rapid creation o...

In any digital circuit surface area and power both are very important parameters. In this paper 4bit full adder using transmission gate is designed. To design 4bit full adder two methods are used. First is semi custom design method and second is full custom design method. In first semi custom design method a layout of 4-bit full adder is designed with available width and length of the transisto...

Tangible user interfaces (TUIs) can create engaging and useful interactive systems. However, along with the power of these interfaces comes challenges; they are often so specialized and novel that building a TUI system involves working at a low level with custom hardware and software. As a result the community of people that are capable of creating TUIs is limited. With this project we aim to m...

As increasing the clock frequency leads to unmanageable heat and power dissipation the search is on for another way to get more power efficient and faster embedded systems. Given that chip area is also a constraint, we investigate the addition of a custom instruction to the processor instruction set which enables the execution of an efficient complex division. We have implemented software for c...

Since the onset of automation, industry has relied on adjustable speed drives to accurately control the speed of motors. Recent advances have increased the number of adjustable speed drives hitting the market. The proper operation of the speed drives requires electrical supply with relatively high power quality which is not the case in most industrial facilities. Power quality problems such as ...