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The Quanta Image Sensor: Every Photon Counts

The Quanta Image Sensor (QIS) was conceived when contemplating shrinking pixel sizes and storage capacities, and the steady increase in digital processing power. In the single-bit QIS, the output of each field is a binary bit plane, where each bit represents the presence or absence of at least one photoelectron in a photodetector. A series of bit planes is generated through high-speed readout, ...

When Every Square Inch Counts TM

Sensation - targeted motor control : Every spike counts ?

Traditionally, sensory processing and motor control have been studied separately, reflecting the belief that sensory and motor streams remain independent until linked via cortical “associative” areas. Although this belief no longer dominates neuroscience, the traditional tendency to continue to study sensory processing and motor control separately is not easily overcome. Only after closely exam...

Cycle counts for authenticated encryption

How much time is needed to encrypt, authenticate, verify, and decrypt a packet? The answer depends on the machine (most importantly, but not solely, the CPU), on the choice of authenticatedencryption function, on the packet length, on the level of competition for the instruction cache, on the number of keys handled in parallel, et al. This paper reports, in graphical and tabular form, measureme...

Every Vote Counts: Ensuring Integrity in Large-Scale Electronic Voting

This paper presents a new End-to-End (E2E) verifiable e-voting protocol for large-scale elections, called Direct Recording Electronic with Integrity (DRE-i). In contrast to all other E2E verifiable voting schemes, ours does not involve any Tallying Authorities (TAs). The design of DRE-i is based on the hypothesis that existing E2E voting protocols’ universal dependence on TAs is a key obstacle ...