Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Approaches to Policy Advice From Multiple Teachers in Reinforcement Learning
(2017-07-14)Reinforcement learning can be an arduous and expensive process, but agents can learn a task faster and better with the help of one or more teacher agents. In the advice model framework, a teacher instructs by giving advice ... -
Aqueous Solution Synthesis of ZnO for Application in Optoelectronics
(2013-09-23)Recently, ZnO has garnered widespread attention in the semiconductor community for its large set of useful properties, which include a wide bandgap and its resulting optical transparency, a large exciton binding energy, a ... -
Architecting Efficient, Large-Scale AI: An Algorithm-System Co-Design Approach
(2024-05-14)Driven by significant advancements in algorithmic techniques and the emergence of new multimodal generative applications, deep learning has entered the era of "large-scale AI". As leading models dramatically increase in ... -
Architecting High Performance Silicon Systems for Accurate and Efficient On-Chip Deep Learning
(2023-05-12)The unabated pursuit of omniscient and omnipotent AI is levying hefty latency, memory, and energy taxes at all computing scales. At the same time, the twilight of Dennard scaling means traditional performance gains are no ... -
Architectural Implications of Automatic Parallelization With HELIX-RC
(2015-09-23)As classic Dennard process scaling fades into the past, power density concerns have driven modern CPU designs to de-emphasize the pursuit of single-thread performance, focusing instead on increasing the number of cores in ... -
Architecture and Regulation of the Arenavirus Polymerase Complex
(2013-02-15)Viruses are the only organisms known to store their genetic information solely in the form of RNA, and have thus evolved unique machinery to replicate an RNA genome and initiate viral gene expression in the infected cell. ... -
Architecture for a New Age: Imperial Ottoman Mosques in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul
(2013-10-17)The eighteenth century saw the Ottoman capital Istanbul undergo some of its most significant physical changes. Restored as the seat of government in 1703 after the court had spent fifty years in Edirne, the city became the ... -
"The Architecture of the Book": El Lissitzky's Works on Paper, 1919-1937
(2015-05-17)Although widely respected as an abstract painter, the Russian Jewish artist and architect El Lissitzky produced more works on paper than in any other medium during his twenty year career. Both a highly competent lithographer ... -
Architecture, Expertise and the German Construction of the Ottoman Railway Network, 1868-1919
(2014-06-06)The dissertation examines the production of knowledge and architecture through the German-sponsored construction of the Ottoman railway network, comprising four discrete projects: the railways of European Turkey, the ... -
Architectures of Global Communication: Psychoacoustics, Acoustic Space, and the Total Environment, 1941-1970
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines architectural engagements with communication technologies, within the framework of mid-twentieth-century efforts to institute a global community and engineer media democracies. I interrogate the ... -
Are Robots Replacing Routine Jobs
(2018-06-29)This paper explores whether occupations involving routine tasks are more susceptible to replacement by automation. Using a recent dataset on industrial robots and occupational task profiles, I examine how increases in robot ... -
Arithmetic and local circuitry underlying dopamine prediction errors
(2014-10-21)Predictions help guide learning. As we encounter objects in our environment, we make predictions about their value. When outcomes match our predictions, learning is not required. When outcomes are unexpected, however, we ... -
The Arithmetic of Simple Singularities
(2012-08-10)We investigate some arithmetic orbit problems in representations of linear algebraic groups arising from Vinberg theory. We aim to give a description of the orbits in these representations using methods with an emphasis ... -
Arithmetic properties of local systems on algebraic varieties
(2022-04-25)The first main result of this dissertation is a statement about the ubiquity of de Rham local systems on algebraic varieties over $p$-adic fields. If $\mathbb{L}$ is a geometrically irreducible $\overline{\mathbb{Q}}_p$-local ... -
Arithmetic Properties of Moduli Spaces and Topological String Partition Functions of Some Calabi-Yau Threefolds
(2014-06-06)This thesis studies certain aspects of the global properties, including geometric and arithmetic, of the moduli spaces of complex structures of some special Calabi-Yau threefolds (B-model), and of the corresponding topological ... -
The Ark of the Covenant and Divine Rage in the Hebrew Bible
(2016-08-29)The subject of my study is the Ark of the Covenant as portrayed within the Deuteronomistic History of the Hebrew Bible, particularly the tales featuring the Ark in Joshua and 1–2 Samuel. In these narratives, the God of ... -
Arma virumque: The Significance of Spoils in Roman Culture
(2016-05-17)This dissertation explores the significance of spoils and the practice of spoils-taking in Roman culture. Working from the premise that spoils in the classical sense (Latin spolia, exuviae) are items singled out for their ... -
Army Ant Inspired Adaptive Self-Assembly with Soft, Climbing Robots
(2020-08-11)Social insects, including army ants (genus Eciton) self-assemble dynamic structures which allow them to perform more efficiently and achieve otherwise impossible feats. Army ant bridges, for example, grow and shrink according ... -
The Army Post as Design Laboratory: Experiments in Urban Planning and Architecture, 1917-1948
(2013-03-18)This dissertation examines the engagement of civilian designers in United States Army post architecture and planning between 1917 and 1948. During those years, the built environment of the Army was fundamentally transformed, ... -
Arrested Autonomy: An Ethnography of Orangutan Rehabilitation
(2013-02-12)This dissertation is an ethnographic study about ecological displacement, affective encounters, the work of care, and human and animal subjectivities involved in rehabilitating endangered orangutans in Sarawak, Malaysia. ...