Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Information science"
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Formulation and properties of a divergence used to compare probability measures without absolute continuity and its application to uncertainty quantification
(2020-09-09)This thesis develops a new divergence that generalizes relative entropy and can be used to compare probability measures without a requirement of absolute continuity. We establish properties of the divergence, and in ... -
Generating Semantic Graphs for Natural Language
(2023-05-23)Natural language understanding is a critical capability in achieving advanced artificial intelligent language processing systems such as reading comprehension, question answering, and interactive dialogues. Despite the ... -
Online Institutions, Markets, and Democracy
(2012-07-23)In this dissertation, I explore the implications of the advances in information and communication technology on democracy. In particular, I examine the roles of online institutions—search engines, news aggregators, and ... -
The Statistical Order of Knowledge: A Social and Intellectual History of Search Engines
(2023-11-21)This dissertation tells the story of how the index, originally a library technology, became the hidden infrastructure of information societies. Using archival material, I trace the historical process through which indexes ... -
Trading on Trust: Cryptographic Authentication and Digital Decentralization in the United States, 1968–2000
(2021-07-12)This dissertation describes the political and technical history of digital cryptographic authentication technologies in the United States in the latter decades of the twentieth century. It traces how developers of electronic ...