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Indoor Navigation System for Mobile Devices

Airport travelers, retail shoppers and hospital visitors are a few of the millions of people who could benefit from improved indoor positioning. Yet even after decades of research, a simple and robust...
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Xinyu Zhang, Chi Zhang | P170079US01

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App for Stratifying Autism Spectrum Disorders

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) encompasses a wide cluster of neurodevelopmental disorders. Alongside the core social communication and repetitive behavior symptoms of ASD, there are common reports of ...
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Peter Ari Rosenberg Maffia, Brittany Travers, Adhira Sunkara | P190304US01

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PHOTONIC ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER

UW-Madison researchers, along with collaborators at the University of Southern California, have developed a photonic analog-to-digital converter (pADC) architecture utilizing micro-ring resonators an...
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Akhilesh Jaiswal, Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser, Sugeet Sunder, Ajey Jacob | P250077US01

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PHOTONIC CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORY

UW-Madison researchers have developed a new optical content addressable memory (CAM) array that can perform large parallel CAM operations. This photonic CAM provides advantages over conventional CAMs ...
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Akhilesh Jaiswal, Zihan Yin | P240095US01

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Memory Conserves Power, Is More Reliable

As circuit density increases, power efficiency has become a design priority for high-performance and low-power processors. Better energy efficiency means faster speeds and longer battery life.One tech...
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Nam Sung Kim | P140001US01

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STORAGE I/O MANAGEMENT UNIT FOR SOLID-STATE DRIVES

UW-Madison researchers have created a fast storage innovation that can achieve good performance while enabling secure sharing of devices amongst applications. The design repurposes the existing hardwa...
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Michael Swift, Sujay Yadalam | P230116US01

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METHOD AND APPARATUS USING BLENDED BIOMETRIC DATA

Researchers from UW Madison and UC San Diego have developed a biometric processing system for authentication. It combines multiple biometric signals using machine learning to map the different signals...
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Varun Chandrasekaran, Rahul Chatterjee, Xiaohan Fu, Jin-Yi Cai, Suman Banerjee | P210077US01

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Precision Delay Monitoring Protocol

The growth of digital transformation, with a focus on centralized automation and cloud services, has led to an increased demand for high-throughput and ultra-reliable low-latency network standards. Th...
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Xiaoguang Ma, Huan Yang | T200045US03

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COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED PROGRAM SIMPLIFICATION

UW researchers created a computerized system for specializing programs based on a predefined set of desired program functions, thus reducing program bloat while ensuring the soundness of the resulting...
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Somesh Jha, Mohannad Alhanahnah, Vaibhav Rastogi, Thomas Reps | P210211US02

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MOLECULAR COMPUTING METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SOLVING COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEMS

A collaborative group of professors from several universities, including UW-Madison, have developed a molecular computer for solving a computational problem using an array of reaction sites. The compu...
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Randall Goldsmith, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Si Yue Guo, Chang-Chi Wu, Pascal Friederich, Leroy Cronin, Yudong Cao, Nathan Gianneschi, Abhishek Sharma, Christopher Forman | P200109US02

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UW-Madison researchers have created an event neural network system and associated methods, comprising a family of neural networks in which neurons transmit (thereby triggering downstream computation) ...
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Mohit Gupta, Matthew Dutson | P220141US01

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