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IAI proposes to continue understanding social bots behaviors, extract indicators, develop socio-computational models with predictive capabilities to detect bot and botnet (i.e., coordinated groups of bots) activity, measure the impact of bots and their effectiveness, and implement the algorithms and incorporate them in a mature social media analytics software tool. In particular, we will develop i ...

A Power of Ideas on the Internet (POINT) platform will be developed for the search and discovery of major ideas regarding overseas events that find expression in public online media sites. Through textual analysis of open source content we will trace the emergence and propagation of ideas--as they relate to particular topics and geographic locations. In addition, we will investigate empirical mode ...

New shape-engineered iron-based microscopic contrast agents (MCAs) for magnetic resonance imaging promise to increase diagnostic accuracy while reducing side effects, and enhance scientists’ ability to track stem cells. Currently, techniques used for making multispectral microscale contrast agent particles are cost prohibitive. In Phase I, an innovative technique (employing template-guided elect ...

The objective of this Phase II project is to research, develop, and commercialize a resonant scan lens (RSL) for use in a resonant light detection and ranging (R-LIDAR) distance sensor. R-LIDAR uses a resonant optomechanical system to generate a beam scan. While resonant optomechanical systems produce high-speed and large field-of-view (FOV) scans from a miniature form factor, the beam scans lack ...

In this STTR program, technology created in Professor John Bowers research group at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) to fabricate silicon photonics based integrated lasers, including wafer bonded III-V gain elements and ultra-low loss silicon nitride waveguides and microresonators, will be utilized to develop ultra-coherent integrated laser devices that are widely tunable. Nov ...

This STTR Phase II program will create novel devices and system designs, expanding upon the microring resonator based silicon WDM modulator designs and system concepts developed during Phase I. The focus will be on linear transmitters and analog fiberoptic systems, used to transmit and transform analog signals, based on the Linearized - Ring Assisted Mach Zehnder Interferometer (L-RAMZI) modulator ...

Our proposal includes the creation of a web-based platform that will benchmarking GPU applications accross numerous GPU cards located in the cloud. This is a useful tool for programmers with limited resources at hand. Further, we will open source the ArrayFire software library - the broadest OpenCL available.In addition to this, we will extend Array with additional functionality for image processi ...

Phase II of the New METSAT Display project will produce a working beta version of the Earth Imaging product customized for NWS/NOAA as outlined in the Phase I proof of concept. This product will ingest imagery from a data source (in this case a web service of NOAA satellite imagery) and display it accurately on a globe of the Earth. Vector data such as roads, cities, towns, counties, states, etc. ...

Recent advances in mammalian artificial chromosome design and engineering offer an alternative to existing methodologies for cellular bioengineering and address unmet needs to bioengineer more complex functionalities into human cells for subsequent commercialization. In this ST13B-001 application we propose to demonstrate utility of a novel chromosome-based gene delivery vehicle that is amenable t ...

The proposed effort will expand on the previous efforts data mashing technology development to enable it to handle scenarios that are simultaneously more complicated and more dependent on high accuracy. This project will fulfill the solicitations Phase II goal, Develop a prototype that demonstrates the efficacy of DATALATOR technology based on Phase I results, data, and analysis. Evaluate the per ...