New information and communication technologies will arrive on the market at a fast and furious pace. Two technologies of immediate relevance to information and communication infrastructure (ICI) development are broadband access and secure servers. Emerging features of an ICI include distributed computing and associated communications; sophistication of end-devices through links to global positi...

Abstract—Hardware accelerators integrating to general purpose processors are increasingly employed to achieve lower power consumption and higher processing speed, however, energy consumption of high performance accelerators has become a great issue on large scale parallel computer system. We have investigated the applicability of Single-Flux-Quantum (SFQ) circuits as a part of superconductivity...

We demonstrate improved performance in interfacing standard fibers with nanophotonic waveguides through a mechanically compliant polymer interface. We show -1.4dB peak transmission with 0.8dB penalty over the ~100nm bandwidth measured and all polarizations. OCIS codes: (130.3120) Integrated optics devices; (250.5300) Photonic integrated circuits Challenges in cost and scalability of photonic pa...

The development of new methods and rep­ resentations for temporal decision-making requires a principled basis for characterizing and measuring the flexibility of decision strategies in the face of uncertainty. Our goal in this paper is to provide a framework not a theory for observing how decision policies behave in the face of informational perturbations, to gain clues as to how they might beh...

The notion of ‘acoustic chains’ will be posited. It will be argued that ‘acoustic chains’ link certain acousmatic works at what Denis Smalley terms the ‘indicative listening mode’ through their common ‘affordances’ a term originally used by James Gibson to interpret visual culture and adapted by Luke Windsor to acousmatic music. It will be contended that the listener to an acousmatic work, when...

The goal of this paper is to present interesting way how to model and predict nonlinear systems using recurrent neural network. This type of artificial neural networks is underestimated and marginalized. Nevertheless, it offers superior modelling features at reasonable computational costs. This contribution is focused on Elman Neural Network, two-layered recurrent neural network. The abilities ...

Bootable CD-Roms with a small Linux rescue system in business card size [1, 2] or regular size live demonstration CDs [3] are becoming popular recently. Also, some of the commercial Linux distributors as well as non-profit Open Source groups are developing self-running demos that are preconfigured for certain hardware, or contain a configuration frontend. Knoppix (Knopper’s *nix) is an attempt ...

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has increasingly been attracting attention by the research community. In ICN the center of attention becomes the information itself and not the endpoints as in today’s IP networks. In this demonstration we present applications that we developed as proof of concepts for our ICN approach. A video streaming as well as a voice and a HTTP over publish/subscribe a...

Telomeres are composed of repetitive G-rich sequence and an abundance of associated proteins that together form a dynamic cap that protects chromosome ends and allows them to be distinguished from deleterious DSBs. Telomere-associated proteins also function to regulate telomerase, the ribonucleoprtotein responsible for addition of the species-specific terminal repeat sequence. Loss of telomere ...

Introduction: Polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) is an important factor in the performance of long-distance high speed optical transmission systems. There is clearly a need for a practical approach that supports the network provider’s planning and route design process for possible capacity upgrading in existing fibre plants, such as to retrofit 10 Gbit/s dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) ...