by David José Tamés., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1996., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-65).

This thesis explores a holistic design process through which architectural elements can engage the dynamic forces of natural phenomena and integrate the spatial and temporal experience of building form with its physical environment. The framework for this exploration is a…

The application of the multilingual knowledge encoded in Wikipedia to an open–domain Cross–Lingual Question Answering system
based on the Inter Lingual Index (ILI) module of EuroWordNet is proposed and evaluated. This strategy overcomes the problems due to
ILI’s low coverage…

The lack of effective data integration and knowledge representation in patient monitoring limits its utility to clinicians. Intelligent alarm algorithms that use artificial intelligence techniques have the potential to reduce false alarm rates and to improve data integration and knowledge…

by Yaichi Aoshima., Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996., Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264).

by Ronit Bodner., Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-76).

by Michael Lewis Thompson., Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1996., Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-268).

by Charles L. Forbes., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 51-53).

by Michael Luke Murtaugh., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1996., Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-76).

Heterogeneous azeotropic distillation is a widely used technique to separate binary azeotropic mixtures into their components. One of its most important applications is the dehydration of ethanol, which is blended with gasoline to obtain automobile fuel. Among all the compounds…