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The Citadel of Cairo, 1176-1341 : reconstructing architecture from texts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
This dissertation reconstructs one of the major works of military and palatial architecture in the Middle Ages, the Citadel of the Mountain (QaI'at aI-Jabal) in Cairo. It traces its development from its inception in 1176 ...
Great expectations : provisional modernism and the reception of J.J.P. Oud
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
My dissertation analyzes the reception of the work of J.J.P. Oud (1890-1963), the modern Dutch architect, by examining the systems of dissemination and reception of modern European architecture from 1910 to 1953. Reception ...
Music-listening systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
When human listeners are confronted with musical sounds, they rapidly and automatically orient themselves in the music. Even musically untrained listeners have an exceptional ability to make rapid judgments about music ...
Split noun phrases and the theory of case
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
This dissertation is concerned with two puzzles in the syntax of French noun phrases. I first examine the distribution of the sub nominal clitic pronoun en. I argue that Case theory is the module of the grammar responsible ...
Low power data-dependent transform video and still image coding
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
This work introduces the idea of data dependent video coding for low power. Algorithms for the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and its inverse are introduced which exploit statistical properties of the input data in both ...
Current issues in the mind/body problem
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)
Distributed coordination in network information theory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Constructing a large-scale wireless data network is spectacularly expensive. It is therefore important to understand how to efficiently utilize the physical infrastructure and available battery power, which are expensive ...
Information theoretic analysis of watermarking systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Watermarking models a copyright protection mechanism where an original data sequence is modified before distribution to the public in order to embed some extra information. The embedding should be transparent (i.e., the ...
Quantum signal processing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Quantum signal processing (QSP) as formulated in this thesis, borrows from the formalism and principles of quantum mechanics and some of its interesting axioms and constraints, leading to a novel paradigm for signal ...
The thermodynamic properties of Markov processes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)