Restoring Vision to the Blind: Project Background and Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i Restoring Vision to the Blind: Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 1 Restoring Vision to the Blind: The New Age of Implanted Visual Prostheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Chapter 2 Restor...

People with different capacities, such as the deaf and blind, have problems accessing educational content due to lack of accessible technology. Accessibility usability are closely related concepts that share goals for a satisfactory user experience. Existing literature establishes direct relation between accessibility usability, reports there both in learning platforms, more generally most webs...

This paper proposes a new ecient signature scheme from bilinear maps that is secure in the standard model (i.e., without the random oracle model). Our signature scheme is more eective in many applications (e.g., blind signatures, group signatures, anonymous credentials etc.) than the existing secure signature schemes in the standard model. As typical applications of our signature scheme, this p...

This paper addresses the use of multichannel receivers for blind equalization in TDMA under frequency selective channels and OFDM systems in frequency flat fading channels. A new criteria is proposed for blind equalization of finite length mobile channels.

We explore the role of experience in mixed-strategy games by comparing, for a stylized version of Texas Hold-em, the behavior of experts, who have extensive experience playing poker online, to the behavior of novices. We Önd signiÖcant di§erences. The initial frequencies with which players bet and call are closer to equilibrium for experts than novices. And, while the betting and calling freque...