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  • On Avoiding Power-Seeking by Artificial Intelligence

    Creator:
    Turner, Alexander M.
    Abstract:
    We do not know how to align a very intelligent AI agent's behavior with human interests. I investigate whether—absent a full solution to this AI alignment problem—we can build smart {\ai} agents which have limited impact on the world, and which do not autonomously seek power. In this thesis, I...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Alexander

  • Material development for thin-film transistors

    Creator:
    Archila, Kevin Alexander
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    The focus of this thesis is developing materials for thin-film transistors (TFTs). Cu₃SbS₄ is explored as p-channel layer. Cu₃SbS₄ TFTs show p-type, depletion-mode behavior with a small amount of gate-controlled modulation of the channel conductance. This behavior is consistent with Hall measurements indicating a mobility of 17 cm²V⁻¹s⁻¹ and hole...
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    OF THE THESIS OF Kevin Alexander Archila for the degree of Master of Science in Electrical and

  • Inorganic thin-film solar cells

    Creator:
    Spies, Jack Alexander
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    The primary objective of this thesis is to explore new absorber and p-type window layer materials for thin-film solar cell applications. A new thin-film electron beam deposition system has been installed, is now operational, and has been used to deposit several types of solar cell absorber layers. Material investigations include...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jack Alexander Spies for the

  • Low-Power 12-bit Quasi-Passive Segmented DAC Implemented in 130nm CMOS Technology

    Creator:
    Pierce, Alexander G.
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    This thesis work proposes a low-power 12-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC) designed in a 130nm process. The DAC to be presented is of a segmented design where the architecture is split into pipelined and thermometer coded segments. This allows for high linearity and low distortion while maintaining high speed and low...
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    Alexander Glenn Pierce for the degree of Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • The Familiarity Hypothesis: Explaining the Behavior of Deep Learning Methods in Out-of-Distribution Detection

    Creator:
    Guyer, Alexander
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    Many object recognition applications require detecting and responding to objects drawn from a different distribution from that of the training data. This task is referred to as out-of-distribution (OOD) detection, and it is often formulated as an outlier detection problem wherein the probability distribution of the known data P(X) is...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Alexander Guyer for the degree of

  • Rendering and Simulation for Tires Rolling on Snow

    Creator:
    Clucas, Alexander
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    Modeling tire-snow interaction is important in designing effective snow tires, which directly affects road safety during wintry weather. Unfortunately, tires have complex tread designs and the physical properties of snow have not been characterized. We employ the Material Point Method (MPM) for simulating a material that mimics the fracturing and...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Alexander Clucas for the degree

  • Eager data transfer mechanism for user-level network protocol

    Creator:
    Won, Chulho
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    This dissertation investigates the use of a hardware mechanism called Eager Data Transfer (EDT) for achieving the reduction of communication latency for user-level network protocol. To reach the goal, the dissertation addresses the following research issues. First, the development of a communication system performance evaluation tool called Linux/SimOS is presented....
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    , Dr. Ben Lee for his guidance and support. Also, I wish to thank my program committees, Dr. Alexander

  • Imperative Programming with Variational Effects

    Creator:
    Grasley, Alexander B.
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    Variation is a commonly encountered element of modern software systems. Recent research into variation has led to increasing interest in the development of variational programming languages and corresponding variational models of execution. Variational imperative languages pose a particular challenge due to the complex interactions between side effects and variation. The...
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    , Applicative, and Monad typeclasses: 8 instance Functor V where fmap f (One a) = One (f a) fmap f (Chc d

  • Wind ramp prediction

    Creator:
    Alexander, Chianna M.
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    The number of wind turbines and wind farms in the Pacific Northwest has increased dramatically in the past six years, which represents a significant amount of electrical generation capacity connected to the public electric grid. However, the variable nature of wind sometimes introduces excessive power, or conversely shortages, in power...
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    Thesis Chianna Alexander AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS

  • A 10 bit algorithmic A/D converter for a biosensor

    Creator:
    Rengachari, Thirumalai
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    This thesis presents a novel algorithmic A/D converter to be used in a biosensor. The converter is capable of a conversion rate of 1.5 bits/phase and hence the required conversion time is reduced. The proposed architecture is analyzed for non-ideal effects and compared with existing algorithmic A/D architectures. The converter...
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    . Title: A 10 Bit Algorithmic A/D Converter for a Bio-sensor Abstract approved: Gabor C. Temes and Un-Ku