Abstract: This study investigates the performance of discrete-time systems under quantized iterative learning control. An encoding–decoding mechanism is combined with a spherical polar ...

Abstract: Prior research on directional focus decoding, a.k.a. selective Auditory Attention Decoding (sAAD), has primarily focused on binary “left-right” tasks. However, decoding of the attended ...

Over the past decade, I've jammed myself (and my luggage!) into free airport shuttles, slept on my friends' partially deflated air mattresses, and woken up in the wee hours of the morning to catch a ...

As I walked to work this morning, I listened to a 2007 lecture by the philosopher Hubert Dreyfus, the author of the seminal text What Computers Can’t Do. I’ve listened to this lecture many times, but ...

Nicholas Fujii is a freelance writer from Hawaii who enjoys having opinions about anime, manga, and video games. He has a very precious daughter and an equally precious English diploma. When Nick’s ...

The theories of fiscal resources we are taught in school and in the news are unified by a 'forward flow' worldview: 'We can spend because we have taxes.' However, the reality of national finance works ...

“If you slit someone’s throat with a sword on stage, the audience is not going to go to the police station and file a complaint. They know you are pretending, and they pretend to believe it.” Shah ...