Browsing Graduate Theses by Title
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W-SPSA : an Efficient Stochastic Approximation Algorithm for the off-line calibration of Dynamic Traffic Assignment models
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)The off-line calibration is a crucial step for the successful application of Dynamic Traffic Assignment (DTA) models in transportation planning and real time traffic management. While traditional approaches focus on the ... -
WACO: Learning workload-aware co-optimization of the format and schedule of a sparse tensor program
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-09)Leveraging the existence of the large number of zeros in sparse tensors offer a powerful way to solve complex problems efficiently in many applications. However, optimizing the performance of those applications poses a ... -
Waddle : a proven interpreter and test framework for a subset of the Go semantics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)Goose is a tool for importing programs written in a subset of Go into Coq. Proving properties in Coq about a translated Go program implies that these properties hold for the original Go program, assuming that Goose is ... -
Wafer bonding for monolithic integration of Si CMOS VLSI electronics with III-V optoelectronic devices
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)GaAs-on-silicon epitaxy techniques as well as wafer bonding GaAs to Si, have been developed to overcome lattice mismatch in order to integrate optoelectronic and Si devices. However, the thermal expansion differences between ... -
Wafer bonding of processed Si CMOS VLSI and GaAs for mixed technology integration
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)The successful bonding of bare thinned Si SOI wafers to bare GaAs wafers in previous research has proven to be an important first step in achieving integration of Si electronics with GaAs optoelectronic devices. The thinning ... -
Wafer defect prediction with statistical machine learning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)In the semiconductor industry where the technology continues to grow in complexity while also striving to achieve lower manufacturing costs, it is becoming increasingly important to drive cost savings by screening out ... -
Wage slavery under king cane : status and power on a Jamaican sugar workers' cooperative
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WAI-KNOT (Wireless Audio Interactive Knot)
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)The Sound Transformer is a new type of musical instrument. It looks a little like a saxophone, but when you sing or "kazoo" into it, astonishing transforms and mutations come out. What actually happens is that the input ... -
Waiting for the bus : a strategy for approaching the regulation of public transportation in Kuwait
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)There is an increasing concern about the growth of car dependence in the Middle East and its associated negative impacts on cities, including economic and environmental factors, urban form, and lifestyle. Kuwait, having ... -
Waiting for the bus : transportation and job accessibility issues in lower income communities
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Waiting for the interurban : the politics of light-rail planning in Seattle
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Transportation systems pose some of the most intractable challenges to sustainable, climate-friendly cities. As the fastest growing source of greenhouse-gas emissions, transportation is critical to sustainability. Yet ... -
Waiting for TOD : developing in the Millbrae BART Station Area
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The suburban terminus station dedicates large amounts of land for parking in order to cater to its driving riders, and causes a trade-off tension between attracting ridership through providing park-and-rides and building ... -
Wake characteristics associated with logjams to inform river restoration
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)In the past, logjams have been removed due to concerns about flooding, erosion, and destruction of property. However, logjams have been found to have many ecosystem benefits, including generating pools for salmonid spawning, ... -
Walk Deserts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-09)This thesis describes a new methodology to identify, measure, and understand “Walk Deserts.” This methodology comprises a system for identifying, mapping, and visualizing areas that are ostensibly highly walkable places ... -
Walking in the city--an operational theater
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)The city is to be considered a site of power. Privileged, gendered, uneven, the city exercises authority and control over its inhabitants. What masks as public, in truth, is private. Its space and structures are fixed by ... -
Walking on daylight : the application of translucent floor systems as a means of achieving natural daylighting in mid and low rise architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)This thesis is concerned with the introduction of quality daylight to buildings by means of translucency in the horizontal planes or floors within the building. Since people began to build, the concept of translucency in ... -
Walking to transit – using big data to analyze bus and train ridership in Los Angeles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-09)Los Angeles passed one of the largest sales taxes in the country in 2016, which will give the county unprecedented financing in improving public transportation. Public transit ridership has been declining despite hefty ... -
Wall-modeled Large-eddy Simulation Based on Building-block Flows
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-09)A unified subgrid-scale (SGS) and wall model—the building-block flow model (BFM) — for wall modeled large-eddy simulation (WMLES) is proposed by devising the flow as a collection of building blocks that enables the prediction ... -
Wall-Walking and Other Bannable Offenses: Discipline and Deviant Play in World of Warcraft
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)As in most games, World of Warcraft’s player characters’ virtual bodies are designed and built to comply with, and be acted upon by, the governing systems of the gameworld they inhabit. The technical equations that determine ... -
The walled city : Beijing hybrid development plan in the 2nd ring road
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)The circular ring roads are one of the key elements that define the spatial organization of Beijing today. However, as the city continues to expand, the ring roads located in the inner city, combined with the gridded ...
