The names and naming practices for this handout were primarily taken from a series of books called Catálogo de Pasajeros a Indias (Catalog of passengers to the New World). The books contain lists of ...

`I couldn't help it,' said Five, in a sulky tone; `Seven jogged my elbow.' On which Seven looked up and said, `That's right, Five! Always lay the blame on others!' `You'd better not talk!' said Five.

I consider new PhD students every year. All PhD admissions in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon are done through a centralized admissions committee. Matching to specific labs and ...

An approach to the construction of classifiers from imbalanced datasets is described. A dataset is imbalanced if the classification categories are not approximately equally represented. Often ...

`You can't think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old thing!' said the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice's, and they walked off together. Alice was very glad to find her ...

A technical introduction to the fundamentals of programming with an emphasis on producing clear, robust, and reasonably efficient code using top-down design, informal analysis, and effective testing ...

This is the toplevel page for accessing code for a collection of parallel algorithms. The algorithms are implemented in the parallel programming language NESL and developed by the Scandal project. For ...

I am research faculty at CMU’s Language Technologies Institute in the broad field of automatic speech recognition, multimedia processing, conversation analysis - or related fields, anything that takes ...

I am originally from ChaoZhou, China, but, due to some random walk, I now live in Pittsburgh, USA. I received my bachelor degree of software engineering and statistics from Sun Yat-sen University in ...

In the field of evolutionary computation, it is common to compare different algorithms using a large test set, especially when the test involves function optimization [GW93]. However, the ...

Take our own bodies. I believe they are composed of myriads and myriads of infinitesimally small individuals, each in itself a unit of life, and that these units work in squads or swarms, as I prefer ...

The Hubbard Professional Mark Super VII is the most sophisticated and expensive e-meter yet developed by the Church of Scientology. Its retail price in 1995 was US $3,850. It is the standard e-meter ...