This thesis describes CAM (Categories, Agreement, and Morphology), a computer model of several aspects of language acquisition. CAM is based on the Semantic Bootstrapping Hypothesis (Pinker, 1984), and CAM also respects ...

One of the problems in building a general purpose operating system is the construction of interfaces between programs that are interdependent but are loaded at different times. This thesis presents a model that generalizes ...

This dissertation investigates novel approaches for analysis and visualization of two kinds of graph, scale-free network and rooted hierarchy, at large scales with thousands to millions of nodes. Scale-free network, ...

Large lectures are a difficult and complicated area of exploration, both technologically and socially. Here is presented a discussion of existing areas of investigation related to large lectures, including fostering crowd ...

The Web has been rapidly ``deepened'' by myriad searchable databases online, where data are hidden behind query interfaces. Guarding data behind them, such query interfaces are the ``entrances'' or ``doors'' to the deep ...

We studied the problem of constraint-based pattern mining for three different data formats, item-set, sequence and graph, and focused on mining patterns of large sizes. Colossal patterns in each data formats are studied ...

The computational bottleneck of topology optimization is the solution of a large number of linear systems arising in the finite element analysis. We propose fast iterative solvers for large three-dimensional topology ...

Wide-area Internet links are slow, expensive, and unreliable. This affects applications in two distinct ways. Back-end data processing applications, which need to transfer large amounts of data between data centers across ...

ESD design rule checking is different from the conventional design rule checking in that not only different rules have to be applied for different components in the ESD protection circuit, but also style of layout is of ...

Transactional memory (TM) is a compelling alternative to traditional synchronization, and implementing TM primitives directly in hardware offers a potential performance advantage over software-based methods. In this paper, ...