Performance of automatic speech recognition systems trained on close talking data su ers when used in a distant talking environment due to the mismatch in training and testing conditions Microphone array sound capture can reduce some mismatch by removing ambi ent noise and reverberation but o ers insu cient im provement in performance However using array sig nal capture in conjunction with Hidd...

Armstmng III is a 20 node muiti-coqtwter that is current& operational In ah&ion to a RISC pmcessor, each node contains recoflfgurabfe *sources impiemented I&I FPGAs. The in-circuit rtpmgramabihy of static RAM-based FPGAs allows the computational crrpabilities of a node to be @amica& matcbed to the conq%etati~nal requirements of an @&cation. Most reconfgurable conguters in exiitence today re& so...

In a co-authored paper (Jockers et al. 2008), my colleagues and I employed both delta and nearest shrunken centroid (NSC) classification in an authorship analysis of the Book of Mormon. Our results suggested that several men involved in the early formation of the Mormon Church might have been contributors to the Book of Mormon. For reasons detailed in that paper, and summarized again here, we e...

This paper presents a method for automatically deriving a time and content dependent information value function for probabilistic information This function de scribes analytically what real world value an agent can obtain by using a certain piece of information at a certain time The general form of this function is formulated and a speci c example with two valued outputs is presented in the fac...

T historians and laypeople alike often look upon medicine from the Anglo-Saxon period (550-1066 A.D.) with horror and derision. One seems to conjure up images of dirty rags used to clean wounds, or ground-up dung ingested to cure a headache. When one examines the actual medical remedies of the time, however, useful cures can be found. The remedies in Anglo-Saxon medical texts are extremely inte...