In very non-robotics news, here is a website describing a 25-year project of mine involving an antique, air-cooled Porsche 911. I am happy to announce the release of our new book, AI and Humanity by ...

4.1 Degrees of Freedom of a Rigid Body 4.1.1Degrees of Freedom of a Rigid Body in a Plane 4.1.2 Degrees of Freedom of a Rigid Body in Space ...

My life goal is to fulfill the science fiction vision of machines that achieve human levels of competence in perceiving, thinking, and acting. A more narrow technical goal is to understand how to get ...

We introduce the heat method for solving the single- or multiple-source shortest path problem on both flat and curved domains. A key insight is that distance computation can be split into two stages: ...

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Instructor: Avrim Blum /// Time: Mon, Wed 12:30-1:45, 1304 SC /// Office hours: Wed 4:00-5:00, 3212 SC Course description: This course will cover a collection of topics in theory and algorithms for ...

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The authors thank Saul Schleimer and Henry Segerman for helpful discussions about topological examples, and Nick Stadie for perspective on molecular symmetries. This work was supported by a Packard ...

From smart phones, to multi-core CPUs and GPUs, to the world's largest supercomputers, parallel processing is ubiquitous in modern computing. The goal of this course is to provide a deep understanding ...

15-210 aims to teach methods for designing, analyzing, and programming sequential and parallel algorithms and data structures. The emphasis is on teaching fundamental concepts applicable across a wide ...

This is a graduate course. You are thus expected to pursue ideas and topics discussed in this course on your own beyond the level of the lectures. My aim is to cover some of the easy early material ...

HHsim is a graphical simulation of a section of excitable neuronal membrane using the Hodgkin-Huxley equations. It provides full access to the Hodgkin-Huxley parameters, membrane parameters, stimulus ...