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Observational analysis of twentieth century summer climate over North America
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
How did the climate of the central United States change over the course of the twentieth century? In this study, multiple complementary statistical analyses were carried out on weather and agricultural production data in ...
Learning digits via joint audio-visual representations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Our goal is to explore models for language learning in the manner that humans learn languages as children. Namely, children do not have intermediary text transcriptions in correlating visual and audio inputs from the ...
Long short-term memory recurrent neural networks for classification of acute hypotensive episodes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
An acute hypotensive episode (AHE) is a life-threatening condition durich which a patient's mean arterial blood pressure drops below 60 mmHG for a period of 30 minutes. This thesis presents the development and evaluation ...
Developing a generalized intelligent agent by processing information on webpages
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
In this thesis, I designed and implemented a framework for reinforcement learning (RL) agents to interact with a web environment. With this framework, I introduce a new challenge for RL agents to learn human activity on ...
An investigation of the reaction kinetics of photocatalytic wastewater treatment using suspended titanium dioxide catalyst
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
The goal of wastewater treatment is to remove compounds that may be harmful to the natural ecosystem or to humans. Although traditional treatment is fairly effective in meeting water quality standards, current technologies ...
Geometrical optimization of arched structures under stochastic loading
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This thesis presents a method for determining the moment-optimized shape y(x) for arched structures under unpredictable loading scenarios. A frame geometry optimization derivation is presented that demonstrates the ...
The Ducklingbot : a self-driving robot on a Pi Zero
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
This paper describes a MEng thesis project conducted with the Duckietown group at MIT's CSAIL. During the duration of the project, the Duckietown software suite and ROS was made to run on the Raspberry Pi Zero (Or Raspberry ...
Peer-to-peer network modeling for adversarial proactive cyber defenses
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
This thesis implements a novel peer-to-peer network simulator that integrates co-evolutionary algorithms in order to model adversarial attack and defense dynamics in networks. Modeling this behavior is desirable as it ...
Vessel : a lightweight container for network analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
TCP adaptation and retransmission strategies provide robust advantages by abstracting the development of applications on the Internet from the development of lower layers. However, the abstraction hides useful low-level ...
An evaluation of support vector machines in consumer credit analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
This thesis examines a support vector machine approach for determining consumer credit. The support vector machine using a radial basis function (RBF) kernel is compared to a previous implementation of a decision tree ...