US Army remotely piloted vehicle supporting technology program

Essential technology programs that lead to the full scale engineering development of the Aquila Remotely Piloted Vehicle system for U.S. Army are described. The Aquila system uses a small recoverable and reusable RPV to provide target acquisition, designation, and aerial reconnaissance mission support for artillery and smart munitions. Developments that will provide growth capabilities to the Aquila RPV system, as well as future RPV mission concepts being considered by the U.S. Army are presented

Absence & presence

The first series I made were computer laser cut letterpress prints. In this series I have written a program that “absently” creates the image. I am including the Processing computer code that generates all the imagery and the lines of text, basically these instructions tell the program what to do and where to put each pixel of colour. Each time the program is run it creates a slightly different image, with a different cloud/smoke formation, different branches and different position of the sun. The image is built up gradually over time. For these prints it is run for 30 minutes (one minute for each life lost in the bombing). The random nature of the clouds/smoke in the image mirrors the senseless random act of violence. The words are from an ancient Arabic poem “On a thunder storm” by Ibrahim Ben Khiret Abou Isaac, whose original meaning can be now be given a new interpretation in the context of the print

Status of NASA/Army rotorcraft research and development piloted flight simulation

The status of the major NASA/Army capabilities in piloted rotorcraft flight simulation is reviewed. The requirements for research and development piloted simulation are addressed as well as the capabilities and technologies that are currently available or are being developed by NASA and the Army at Ames. The application of revolutionary advances (in visual scene, electronic cockpits, motion, and modelling of interactive mission environments and/or vehicle systems) to the NASA/Army facilities are also addressed. Particular attention is devoted to the major advances made in integrating these individual capabilities into fully integrated simulation environment that were or are being applied to new rotorcraft mission requirements. The specific simulators discussed are the Vertical Motion Simulator and the Crew Station Research and Development Facility

Operational and performance characteristics of the X-15 spherical, hypersonic flow-direction sensor

X-15 aircraft spherical, hypersonic flow direction sensor - operational and performance characteristics, and flight dat

Building an Open-Source Archive for Born-Digital Dissertations

This proposal for a Level I Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant would support an interdisciplinary workshop aimed at identifying the issues, opportunities and requirements for developing an open-source system into which born-digital dissertations (e.g., interactive webtexts, software, games, etc.) can be deposited and maintained, and through which they can be accessed and cross-referenced. The workshop will build upon the framework set up by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLDT) and the United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (USETDA), which support the creation and dissemination of digital dissertations, but, despite best efforts, do not currently offer a comprehensive, central repository or index of born-digital dissertations such as exists for print (e.g., Proquest). One of the primary goals for this workshop will be to develop a plan for the development of such a tool as well as the identification of a project advisory board

Who Has the Last Laugh? Comedians’ Free Speech Rights under the First Amendment.

Comedians represent an important part of public discourse in American society. They are able to toe the line between controversial, comedy, and the truth. But when a perceived threat is involved, this line becomes harder to find and even harder to defend under the First Amendment. This post was originally published on the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal website on October 21, 2018. The original post can be accessed via the Archived Link button above

The Context Repetition Effect: Role of prediction in new memory formation.

3rd Place at Denman Undergraduate Research ForumMany theories posit that the associative process at the core of episodic memory binds the content of an experience to the context in which we experience it. Here, context can be broadly defined as the mental representation capturing our recent experience. We recently discovered the context repetition effect (CRE), which shows that repeating a context once leads to greater memory performance for an item learned within that context even if the item does not occur again. Currently, we have conducted three studies to test the CRE. Experiment 1 was a complete replication of the original experiment that first discovered the CRE, save that there were multiple repetitions of a context instead of just one. We found that the presentation of a context and item, followed by two repetitions of the context with a new item each time, resulted in a near significant boost in memory and confidence in memory of subjects for the original item. Experiment 2 replaced words with scenes and faces. Subjects associated male and female faces with indoor and outdoor scenes. Subjects showed trends towards reduced performance and no demonstration of the CRE. Lack of power for performance results possibly due to difficulty in encoding faces relative to words. Experiment 3 replicated Experiment 2, save that there was an additional repetition. Results trended toward those found in Experiment 2.No embargoAcademic Major: Psycholog

The Search for Hamilton

In July and August of 2009 my wife and I went on a four-week trip to Scotland and Ireland. We would be visiting Dublin, so I decided that we should visit the famous bridge where William Rowan Hamilton carved the equations for the quaternions. The task was not as simple as I had assumed. This paper gives some details of the search