Traffic congestion in metropolitan areas is a world-wide problem that can be ameliorated by traffic lights that respond dynamically to real-time conditions. Recent studies applying deep reinforcement learning (RL) to ...

While artificial intelligence (AI) has led to major breakthroughs in many domains, understanding machine learning models remains a fundamental challenge. How can we make AI more accessible and interpretable, or more broadly, ...

Open-source software (OSS) has been widely adopted in all layers of the software stack, from operating systems to web servers and mobile apps. Despite their myriad benefits, careless use of OSS can introduce significant ...

There is a growing international movement to provide every child access to high-quality computing education. Despite the widespread effort, most children in the US do not take any computing classes in primary or secondary ...

The proposed thesis focuses on providing definitions, closed-form expressions and algorithmic solutions for computing averages of sets of shapes and associated standard deviation fields. By shapes, we mean lines, planes, ...

A new breed of low-latency I/O devices, such as the emerging remote memory access and the high-speed Ethernet NICs, are becoming ubiquitous in current data centers. For example, big data center operators such as Amazon, ...

The increasing volume and availability of healthcare and biomedical data is opening up new opportunities for the use of computational methods to improve health. However, the data are diverse, multidimensional and sparse, ...

Network scheduling determines the relative ordering and priority of different flows or packets with respect to some ranking function that is mandated by a scheduling policy. It is the core component in many recent innovations ...

The ability to conduct experiments in the real world is a critical step for roboticists working to create autonomous systems that achieve human-level task performance. Self-driving vehicles are a domain that has received ...

In response to the growing need for securing user data in the cloud, recent Intel processors have supported a new feature, Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). SGX allows a program to execute in isolation from the rest ...