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Experiences Using Large Scale Video Walls for Distance Education
No full textWe describe our experiences building and using the Rutgers Videowall, a low-cost telepresence system that has been used teaching 15 courses and colloquia. By relaxing typical spatial telepresence features, such as background continuity, we greatly reduced costs and gained flexibility in the rooms it could be deployed in. The lower costs and room flexibility enabled academic departments to use the wall, in contrast to traditional telepresence systems which remained inaccessible. We found that the Videowall’s spatial distortions did not have a significant impact on useability, as our initial survey results show that students had an overall positive experience.Technical report DCS-tr-72
Richard P. Newton Family papers
No full textCorrespondence comprises the largest portion of the Papers of the Richard P. Newton Family and documents the daily lives of Richard Newton, Dorothy Speilman Newton, Lillian Boehm, and some of their friends. The collection also contains religious, legal, and genealogical documents, a pair of torpedo-shaped earrings, holiday cards, and photographs. Also included are issues of two military publications: Plans of the Day and Radio Press News from the USS George K. MacKenzie (DD-836). The correspondence focuses on domestic concerns and military life. The documents include certificates commemorating religious and school events, union membership, and military life. The majority of the photographs are not identified or dated. They consist of individual and group photographs and views taken from and on a ship, probably the USS George K. MacKenzie (DD-836) at sea
Richard P. Reed
No full textRICHARD P. REED
Inducted: 1995
Citation:
For leadership in cryogenic materials research and fracture mechanics metals
Tenure: 1956‑1990
Birth: 1934, Hammond, Indiana
Education:
Purdue University, BS (Metallurgy), 1956
University of Colorado, MS (Metallurgy), 1957
Colorado School of Mines, MS (Metallurgy), 1961
University of Denver, PhD (Metallurgy), 1966
Positions held:
Supervisory Metallurgist
Chief, Cryogenic Propagation of Solids Section
Chief, Fracture and Deformation Division (Gaithersburg and Boulder)
Honors:
U.S. Department of Commerce: Silver Medal 1979; Gold Medal 1983
Alaska Oil Pipeline Special Achievement Award, 1976
Hyatt Regency Project Group Award, 1982
Colorado Federal Scientist of the Year, 1989
Memberships:
American Physical Society
American Society of Metals
American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers
American Society for Testing Materials
American Welding Society
National Science Foundation Advisory Panel on Metal Science and Technology
Metals Properties Council Technical Advisory Committee
Publications:
Author of over 300 technical papers, reports and book chapters on cryogenic materials research and fracture mechanics; editor of a number of books, particularly on cryogenic engineering; editor of series: Advances in Cryogenic Engineering and Cryogenic Materials. Organized first International Cryogenic Materials Conference, 1978
Interview with Richard P. White
No full textRichard P. White served in the US Army Enlisted Reserve Corps, the Air Corps, and the Infantry during WWII. He enlisted in May 1942 in Oxbow, Ohio and received boot camp training at Fort Benning, Georgia. He learned German at Fordham University language school in New York City. His duty stations included Fort Dix, New Jersey, Camp Miles Standish, Massachusetts, and Camp Atterbury, Indiana. He was assigned to the 106th Division, last US Army Division to be organized during WWII. In Europe White was stationed at Chelton, England and saw action Saint-Vith, Belgium. White and members of his command were captured during the Battle of the Bulge and taken to Bad Orb Concentration Camp. The camp was liberated by the 44th Division of the US Army
Pervasive Computing for the 99%
No full textA key limiting factor for the pervasive community has been the difficulty developing and deploying general purpose systems. Such systems should make application development easy, support a wide range of devices and sensors, and allow users to share these resources. Designing a multi-user middleware system that allows novice users to add arbitrary hardware and software raises several challenges, such as resolution between conflicting and stale data, managing data dependencies as software and hardware is changed, and tradeoffs between complexity and expressiveness in the API of such a system. We will discuss the feature set that could solve these problem, and test these features through a software implementation. We then evaluate the system after a year long deployment supporting smart office applications.Technical report DCS-TR-69
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P Feynman
No full textThe Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman, including interviews, speeches, lectures, and articles
GRAIL: A General Purpose Real Time Localization System: Version 1.0
No full textThis paper describes a general purpose Real Time Location System (RTLS), GRAIL, version 1.0. GRAIL provides real-time, adaptable, indoor localization for wireless devices. Because GRAIL’s focus is to localize as diverse a set of devices as possible, it utilizes a centralized, anchor based approach. GRAIL defines an abstract data model for various system components to support different physical modalities and various localization algorithms. We show through real deployments that GRAIL functions over a variety of physical modalities, networks, and algorithms. Further, we found that a centralized solution has critical advantages over distributed implementations for handling privacy concerns. A contribution of this system is its universal approach: it can integrate different hardware and software capabilities within a single localization framework. The deployment of such a system in academic and research environments allows researchers to explore issues beyond algorithms and investigate effects in real deployments.
A Geometric Approach to Device-Free Motion Localization Using Signal Strength
No full textIn this work we describe and evaluate an approach to accurately infer the position in a building where human motion occurs. Our approach does not require the humans to wear any type of device. Such passive mobility localization is applicable in a wide variety of application domains, including those in security, human workflows, and systems management. We position human motion using the change in standard deviation of the received signal strength between stationary transmitters and receivers at known locations. Using a modest transmission rate of once per second, we localize the motion at 2-5 second timescales using a lines-intersecting-tiles method where each line is a straight path between a transmitter and receiver. Our algorithm returns a set of rectangular tiles where the motion has occurred. We experimentally validate our scheme in two different building environments, one containing a cluttered space and a second with a more open arrangement. We show good results for basic mobility detection, with a low number of false positives and negatives. We show that we can localize human motion with a median error of less than 20 ft. We can achieve these results with a modest density of inexpensive active RFID tags, one per 500 ft.2. We also explored how our results degrade with reduced density of transmitters and receivers, and show our mobility detection rates remain good although the geometric precision of the results degrades in line with the density of transmitters.Technical report DCS-TR-67
Township of Wayne Infiltration/Inflow Analysis
No full textThis report presents plans for an expanded sewerage system in Wayne Township to address drainage and wastewater management problems that result from population growth. Topics covered include a discussion of the present and future systems, flow measurements and other observations, alternatives and recommendations.Prepared for the Township of WaynePurpose: Presents plans for sewerage system in Wayne Township
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