Over the past few years, the amount of electronic information available from the Internet has increased dramatically. Unfortunately, the search tools currently available for retrieving and filtering such information remain inadequate in balancing relevance and comprehensiveness. This work proposes a…

Passively accepting measurements of the world is not enough, as the data obtained is always incomplete, and the inferences made from it uncertain to a degree which is often unacceptable. Machines that operate autonomously will always be faced with this…

The Internet's growing acceptance as a key medium to educate people is the main focus of this thesis. Although distance education has been a popular learning method since the end of the 19th Century, never before has technology made it…

This thesis describes an algorithm for detecting moving objects in images taken from a moving robot. The algorithm distinguishes itself from other similar, existing solutions in that it lends itself to a fast implementation, yet provides results which are reliable…

Computational neuroanatomy is an exciting new area where digital tools are used with great advantage in the analysis of structure and function of the brain. One major area of research in this field involves automatically creating computerized representations of the…