Information theory is a viable candidate to advance our understanding of how the brain processes information generated in the internal or external environment. With its universal applicability, information theory enables ...

Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a common, but severely under- diagnosed sleep disorder characterized by recurring periods of shallow or paused breathing during sleep. It is our long-term goal to allow people to perform ...

The use of public key cryptosystems range from securely encrypting emails and files to creating digital signatures for non-repudiation. The security of public key cryptosystems is based on computationally "unsolvable" ...

OptiqueVQS is a visual query system, which makes it possible for users to create queries without having knowledge of the underlying query language. A problem for OptiqueVQS is that it does not currently have a good way to ...

Question Answering (QA) systems promise to enhance both usability and accuracy when searching for knowledge. This thesis presents a prototype QA system built to leverage the extraction capabilities of a modern, context-aware ...

The two-dimensional quick response (QR) codes can be misleading due to the difficulty in differentiating a genuine QR code from a malicious one. Since the vulnerability is practically part of their design, scanning a ...

This thesis addresses the use of radar for heartbeat and respiration monitoring. Medical radar can be used for detecting vital signs at distances up to several meters. A medical radar works by transmitting electromagnetic ...

When it comes to the analysis of biological sequences, alignment based methods have long been in the forefront for finding similarities between sequences, and in the classification of genetic sequences. Many of these methods ...