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The goal of this research project is to determine the viability of an interconnect and probing technology which could be used to test and burn-in unpackaged semiconductors at system level speed, and at operating frequency, with voltage and with temperature margins verified. The focus of the research will be to address directly the most costly limitation to widespread MCM use; the problem of readil ...

Speech deception and voice "hijacking" techniques are now sophisticated beyond the ability of any single detection methodology. Deceptive speech detection requires an array of analysis tools to collectively provide an acceptable probability of detection. An effective Voice Authentication Monitoring System is envisioned as a "work bench" tool set to detect, analyze and assess speech deception. Deve ...

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THIS PROPOSED PHASE I RESEARCH PROJECT PROVIDES A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW REGIONAL SEISMIC DISCRIMINANTS, DEVELOPA STATISTICAL METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING EVENTS, DEVELOP QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES FOR ALLOWING FOR EFFECTS OF NOISE AND REGIONAL PROPAGATION EFFECTS ON DISCRIMINANTS, AND TO STATISTICALLY ANALYZE THE DISCRIMINATION CAPABILITY OF THESE REGIONAL DISCRIMINANTS. THE LARGE DATABASE OFREGI ...

SMART MATERIALS OFFER EXCITING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ADAPTIVE STRUCTURES. SMART MATERIALS ARE A NEW CLASS OF MATERIALS, WHICH CONTAIN THEIR OWN INTERNAL SENSOR, ACTUATOR AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, ELEMENTS. THESE STRUCTURALLY AND FUNCTIONALLY INTEGRATED ELEMENTS GIVE THE MATERIAL THE CAPABILITY TO DETECT CHANGES IN ITS ENVIROMENT, CHANGE ITS STRUCTURAL, ELECTROMAGNETIC AND/OR CHEMICA ...

The cleaning chemicals presently used in the production of ultra large scale integrated (ULSI) circuits pose two major problems. The chemicals contain impurity levels that decrease the manufacutring yield of the circuits. In addition, they require extensive treatment for safe disposal. The process described in this proposal addresses regenerated to produce high purity chemicals. The process is app ...

IMPROVED SPACECRAFT SHIELDING CAN BE REALIZED THROUGH CERAMIC AND ADVANCED ARMOR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FROM MILITARY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS. A SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT IN THE MASS EFFICIENCY, THE EFFECTIVENESS AND THE COST BENEFIT OF SPACECRAFT SHIELDING WILL RESULT. OUR MATERIAL SELECTION, DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION PROGRAM WILL FURTHER THE STATE OF THE ART IN ADVANCED SPACECRAFT ARMORS. INT ...

The goal of the proposed project is to develop a hybrid photonic inference machine to exploit the latent parallelism whic often underlines inferential or deductive processes. The resulting technology will not only serve to accelerate logical programs, but also other inferential processes involving search. In fact, a basic theme of artificial intelligence is that search is the foundation of intelli ...

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THE PROJECT PROPOSED WILL DEVELOP A SUITE OF METRICS FOR THE EVALUATION OF OVERALL PERFORMANCE OF IU SYSTEMS, AS WELL AS FOR THE ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS OF INDIVIDUAL SYSTEM COMPONENTS. THE METRICS WILL ADDRESS THE ISSUES OF THE GENERALITY AND STANDARDIZATION OF METRICS TO PERMIT CROSS-SYSTEM COMPARISONS. THE DIMENSIONS TO BE INVESTIGATED FOR METRICS DEVELOPMENT WILL INCLUDE: ACCURACY, COMPATIBIL ...