It was Super Bowl Sunday, that sacrosanct day when most American men are to be found watching the biggest football game of the year. The flight from New York to Detroit was delayed two hours in departing, and the tension among the passengers— almost entirely businessmen—was palpable. As they finally arrived at Detroit, a mysterious glitch with the boarding ramp made the plane stop some one hund...

Web-based chatbots provide website owners with the benefits of increased sales, immediate response to their customers, and insight into customer behaviour. While are getting popular, they have not received much scrutiny from security researchers. The come at cost users’ privacy security. Vulnerabilities, such as tracking cookies third-party domains, can be hidden in chatbot’s iFrame script. Thi...

A new maize (Zea mays L.) simulation model, Hybrid-Maize, was developed by combining the strengths of two modeling approaches: the growth and development functions in maize-specific models represented by CERES-Maize, and the mechanistic formulation of photosynthesis and respiration in generic crop models such as INTERCOM and WOFOST. It features temperature-driven maize phenological development,...

erative robotic systems, as the first fully-integrated autonomous multi-robot system operated in natural terrain. The mission grammar supports a wide variety of missions, providing optimal execution of those missions by teams of robots, with graceful degradation of optimality for compu-tationally intractable missions. Furthermore, GRAMMPS supports heterogeneous robots as specified via the missi...

Battle management command and control (BMC2) is a communicationsintensive activity. Weapons directors and mission crew commanders on these platforms are required to monitor as many as eight simultaneous communications channels against a background of moderate to high ambient cabin noise while performing a number of visual and manual tasks, a combination which in the heat of battle is challengin...