Marcello Benedetti, 2, 3 John Realpe-Gómez, 4, 5 and Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz 2, 3, ∗ Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab., NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA USRA Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS), Mountain View CA 94043, USA Department of Computer Science, University College London, WC1E 6BT London, UK SGT Inc., Greenbelt, MD 20770, USA Instituto de ...

The established view of diver visibility has been mainly focused on the effects of particles or turbidity of the water. The influence of optical turbulence due to variations of ocean temperature and salinity is shown to contribute to the degradation, through model and field validation. Lab setup of a simulated environment and future directions are also discussed. OCIS codes: (010.7295) Visibili...

Several ongoing projects in the MAPLE (Multi-Agent Planning and LEarning) lab at UMBC and the Machine Learning Systems Group at JPL focus on problems that we view as central to the development of persistent agents. This position paper describes our current research in this area, focusing on four topics in particular: effective use of observational and active learning, utilizing repeated behavio...

There are many design challenges which must be addressed in the development of collaborative scientific discovery learning environments. This paper presents an overview of how these challenges were addressed within Co-Lab, a web-based learning environment in which groups of learners can experiment through simulations and remote laboratories, and express acquired understanding in a runnable comp...

98 Abstract—– Development of remote laboratories has been a growing engineering field over the past two decades. Both theory and lab sessions are important for online education or distance education. The scope of the project is to control a robotic arm in the remote laboratory to work with actual instrument. Robotic arm is constructed with acrylic sheet. Lab VIEW control panels are designed for...

JCB • VOLUME 203 • NUMBER 3 • 2013 378 W hat can you learn about a cell just by looking at it? Quite a lot, as it turns out. A cell’s shape can tell you about its behavior and its function in the body, just for a start. And, as Chris Bakal can attest, a cell’s shape can also tell you a lot about the signaling pathways at work. Bakal has been interested in cellular signaling pathways ever since ...

The lecture text was amended because of comments by discussants and three reviewers of PLoS Medicine. The first seven pages of this longer version are close to the main paper in PLoS Medicine. Thereafter, the longer text treats more topics and gives more examples. 2 Two views of medical science Two views about medical research seem to have split ever more apart over the past decades. One view i...

How we develop antibiotics is shaped by how we view infectious disease. Given the urgent need for new chemotherapeutics for tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, it is timely to reconsider a view of infectious disease that is strongly supported by contemporary evidence but that has rarely been applied in antibiotic development. This view recognizes the importance of nonreplicating bacteri...

This paper discusses the various approaches that can be taken to solve the timetable generation problem. Timetable generation is basically a constraint satisfaction problem. The methods discussed in this paper are capable of handling both soft and hard constraints. Once the final timetable has been generated, teachers and students can access it through three different views i.e., class view, la...

Optical imaging systems with submicron resolution typically require the use of expensive, high numerical aperture (NA) microscope objective lenses. Here, we describe a novel Microfluidic-based Oil-Immersion Lens (μOIL) chip that can perform submicron and wide field of view imaging. Key element of the chip design is the use of high index of refraction, oil-immersion ball mini-lenses that have hi...