Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) convert analog continuous time signals into discrete time, digital format. One precondition that must be met for conventional nyquist rate ADCs is that the input signal must be suit ...

Amateur Packet Radio Networking presently uses the NET/ROM protocol to establish the network. NET/ROM is considered to be insufficient to support the expected growth of the network. This research work proposes to use ...

The task of mapping spelled English words into strings of phonemes and stresses ("reading aloud") has many practical applications. Several commercial systems perform this task by applying a knowledge base of expert-suppl ...

Knowledge compilation improves search-intensive problem-solvers that are easily specified but inefficient. One promising approach improves efficiency by constructing a database of problem-instance/best-action pairs tha ...

The counterflow pipeline concept was originated by Sproull and Sutherland to demonstrate the concept of asynchronous circuits. This architecture relies on distributed decision making and localized clocking and data mov ...

Recent efforts in user-control of data-driven characters have focused on designing high-level graph data-structures that we call a Behavior Finite State Machine (BFSM). A BFSM is an interactive data-structure that bene ...

Authentication protocols play important roles in network security. A variety of authentication protocols ranging from complex public-key cryptosystems to simple password-based authentication schemes have been proposed. H ...

In this dissertation, two important current mode circuit design subjects have been explored. In the first part, the switched-current circuit technique has been investigated. The fundamental performance and limitations ...

The purpose of the thesis is to design and develop a network of automated, distributed, living cell-based sensors, called CytoSensors. Their main role is to detect a variety of biological and chemical toxins. The syste ...