Computational biology

The future of neuroscience: from sci-fi to reality Billions of football fans around the world were amazed in the summer of 2014, when 29 years old Brazilian Juliano Pinto [1], who was paralyzed from waist down, was able to kick a football to ceremonially open the World Cup. Pinto made the kick while wearing a robotic exoskeleton controlled by his brain. The high-tech demonstration was orchestrated by Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis, as part of the Walk Again Project [2], to develop

My preferred major is computer science. Computer science is the act of coding and other operations dealing with computer software. Computer science also deals with knowing all or most languages of code such as Java, Python, or Linux. Along my path to deciding that I wanted to major in computer science, I faced many obstacles and was a part of many experiences that pushed me towards this field. Some events would be as simple as my family designating me the honorary “Tech Guy” or my friends coming

In elementary school, I developed a passion for programming. However, I was discouraged by my parents, who believed that "programming was only for men." In spite of their discouragement, I still enrolled in CSE 120 because I felt inclined to revisit my long lost interest. Although I did well in the course, I stayed hesitant to follow my programming passion because of my parent 's stereotype of Computer Science still lurked in my mind. It was the encouragement from Professor Snyder, who said "You

ABSTRACT Named entity disambiguation is a very interesting problem having wide ranging applications. It is the process of mapping the mentions of persons, organisations, events etc. in textual documents to real world entities. The mapping process becomes tedious when these mentions in the text are commonly used to describe more than one real world entities. It is then said that the mention is ambiguous. If the mentions can be correctly mapped to the corresponding real world entities, then it can

In recent years, federal and local governments have been pouring overwhelming amounts of taxpayer money into buying computers and other digital tools for K-12 education. The rationale is computers are more important than ever, and they are gaining in popularity daily, so it is necessary to prepare our students to use them in their daily lives. But the tools that are being invested in are not being used effectively, and they are showing very minor benefits relative to the massive economical investment

Statement of Purpose “What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle of our minds” – Steve Jobs. The present world is the world of technology. Computers and advancement of technology is playing an increasingly crucial role in today’s world. More and more countries are increasingly moving towards a digital economy. The sovereign governments can take important and useful inputs through analysis of vast ocean of data and efficient

There were times in elementary school when teachers had to pick me up from my chair to give another student a chance to use the school computer. When I first laid eyes on a computer I was amazed at all the things that it could accomplish but I never really delved the aspects of it. This changed when I took my AP Computer Science course during my junior year, taking the class helped develop my passion for the computer. Taking this course helped me to explore other areas of the computer that I didn’t

that exactly suited my interests in applied mathematics and engineering mechanics. Since then, I have taken every opportunity possible to expand my knowledge of computational mechanics, and I hope to further that effort at the University of Illinois. My academic experience began freshman year of college, when I took a course on computational methods in engineering. As it was an honors course, the curriculum was extremely aggressive. We covered basic programming in both C++ and MATLAB, a number of numerical

Abstract-Twitter has become one of the most important communication channels with its ability providing the most up-to-date and newsworthy information. Considering wide use of twitter as the source of information, reaching an interesting tweet for user among a bunch of tweets is challenging. A huge amount of tweets sent per day by hundred millions of users, information overload is inevitable. For extracting information in large volume of tweets, Named Entity Recognition (NER), methods on formal texts

Application of Computational Geometry on View Planning Name: Pravakar Roy Student ID:4927267 Graduate Student Department of Computer Science University of Minnesota, Twin Cities April 27, 2015 Abstract View planning is a crucial part of building vision system for autonomous robots or critical coverage problems. In computational geometry the problem of covering/guarding a region is known as the art gallery theorem. The version where static guards are re- placed by mobile guards is known as the watchman