In this short talk I hope to demonstrate the advantage of a developmental approach to untangling the heterogeneity of outcomes in autism, and to demonstrate opportunities for computational behavioral science to contribute to this approach. I will illustrate this point by briefly reviewing research that shows how children’s emerging capacity to share attention with others vis-a-vis objects and e...

In this paper, I provide desiderata for an interface that would enable ordinary people to properly access the capabilities of the NII. I identify some of the technologies that will be needed to achieve these desiderata, and discuss current and future research directions that could lead to the development of such technologies. In particular, I focus on the ways in which theory and techniques fro...

This paper presents a novel technique for organizing narrowband radio path loss measurements and nding optimal partition-based prediction models. The techniques may be applied to wireless system site planning for indoor, small-cell outdoor, and hybrid indoor-outdoor environments at any frequency. Speci cally, this paper develops path loss models using 5.85 GHz continuous-wave (CW) measurements ...

As the National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII) gains momentum, regional health information exchange networks are developing as a means to support this structure. While successful networks exist, their sustainability is complicated by the existence of multiple stakeholders with differing incentives for participation. Interviews conducted regarding the development of the NMESH network p...

Violent scene detection (VSD) is a challenging problem because of the heterogeneous content, large variations in video quality, and semantic meaning of the concepts. The Violent Scenes Detection Task of MediaEval [1] provides a common dataset and evaluation protocol thus enables a fair comparison of methods. In this paper, we describe our VSD system used in MediaEval 2014 and briefly discuss th...

SHARIF M. A. BHUIYAN∗, NII O. ATTOH-OKINE†, KENNETH E. BARNER‡, ALBERT Y. AYENU-PRAH§ and REZA R. ADHAMI¶ ∗,¶Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville, AL 35899, USA †,§Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716, USA ‡Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Delaware Newa...

This report introduces the activities of the two organizations related to collection and distribution of text and speech corpora in Japan. One is the Language Resource Association (GSK) and the other is NII-Speech Resources Consortium (NII-SRC).

This report is joint work of the attendees of the seminar (see Section 4) and has been edited by the organizers.