Risking your NEC

Risking Your Life without a Second Thought: Intuitive Decision-Making and Extreme Altruism

When faced with the chance to help someone in mortal danger, what is our first response? Do we leap into action, only later considering the risks to ourselves? Or must instinctive self-preservation be overcome by will-power in order to act? We investigate this question by examining the testimony of Carnegie Hero Medal Recipients (CHMRs), extreme altruists who risked their lives to save others. ...

Internship Report – NEC 2008

This report summarizes the work done at NEC Labs America, Princeton from 28th May 2008 to 29th August 2008. I worked under the supervision of Martin Roetteler and collaborated with Hari Krovi. We worked on the hidden subgroup problem(HSP) for dihedral group. Dihedral HSP will solve f(n)-shortest vector lattice problem for f(n) = n 1 2 ([1]), which imply connection with some cryptographic protoc...

Risking Death to Give Life

Risking Peace: Contesting Foreign Policy

This paper explores the causes of domestic conflict over foreign policy in the context of a dynamic learning model. One state is composed of two political parties that are uncertain about how another state will respond to cooperative and confrontational policies. To resolve this uncertainty, they must implement policies and update on the basis of the observed outcome. While both parties have in...

Master Thesis, Network Labs, NEC

This Master thesis presents the design and implementation of AskMe, a new type of service for mobile telephony, within the area of ubiquitous computing. It is a novel approach to collaborative information retrieval, based on using the context of a community to discover and enquire the most qualified experts than can answer the questions of a subscriber. The work is focused on privacy issues, di...