T he famous Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once described writing as " a torture and a pastime " and contrasted it to " a long and exciting career as an obscure curator of lepidoptera in a great museum " [1]. For six years before moving to Cornell University as a professor of Russian literature, Nabokov worked as a research fellow at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, where he specialize...

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Tho flare associated interplanetary (IP) shock of February 15-16, 1967 observed by Explorer 33 and Pioneer 7 is analyzed to yield an estimntion of the ecliptic plane geometry of the shock surface near 1 AU. These spacocraft were separated by 23° in heliocentric longitude and Pioneer 7 was at a distance of 1.12 AU from the sun. There was an 18.9 hour delay between the two observations. The estim...

The paper describes PECAS, an architecture for intelligent systems, and its application in the Explorer, an interactive mobile robot. PECAS is a new architectural combination of information fusion and continual planning. PECAS plans, integrates and monitors the asynchronous flow of information between multiple concurrent systems. Information fusion provides a suitable intermediary to robustly c...

We developed an EXpectation Propagation LOgistic REgRession (EXPLORER) model for distributed privacy-preserving online learning. The proposed framework provides a high level guarantee for protecting sensitive information, since the information exchanged between the server and the client is the encrypted posterior distribution of coefficients. Through experimental results, EXPLORER shows the sam...

In the early stages of a drug discovery project it is often necessary to narrow down the search space for potential new leads substantially [1,2]. This crucial step identifies a set of molecules (a hit series) that have a high likelihood of being relevant to the drug discovery project. In many cases high throughput screening (HTS) is used to test (in-vitro) large amounts of molecules against a ...