Grant review opens up Texas-sized rift

Texas Space Grant Consortium Program

Our objective was to implement the technology developed during the first year of this project to the fabrication of nitride-based optoelectronic sensor structures on silicon wafers. This objective has been reached through optimization of the MBE process, the Reactive Ion Etching (RIE) and device fabrication techniques. Control of the RIE process was improved using a miniature ORthogonal extract...

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SOM Seed Grant Program

A Book Which Opens Up Incredibly Interesting Material

As a specialist working on the history of the Islamic world and interested in documentary material, I had eagerly awaited this book, a book which would continue the chapters on Jewishwomen inGoitein’smagnumopus on the Jews of medieval Cairo based on Genizah documents.[1]What we now have is, indeed, a colorful insight into the world of Jewish women of sixteenth-century Palestine, based on an imp...

A new pathway opens up on the study of lymphangiogenesis

Under the direction of Professor Agnès Noël, a team of scientists at the GIGA-Cancer research center of the University of Liège has developed, in collaboration with other European laboratories, a new lymphoangiogenesis model which could lead, among other things, to a better understanding of cancer cell dissemination (metastases). This finding is the subject of an article published in the renown...

Solving Heads-Up Limit Texas Hold'em

Cepheus is the first computer program to essentially solve a game of imperfect information that is played competitively by humans. The game it plays is heads-up limit Texas hold’em poker, a game with over 10 information sets, and a challenge problem for artificial intelligence for over 10 years. Cepheus was trained using a new variant of Counterfactual Regret Minimization (CFR), called CFR, usi...