{"title":"Enhancing Brain by Transforming Human to Transhuman : Vision & Possibilities","authors":"J. Govil","doi":"10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562717","url":null,"abstract":"Man is always for hungry for innovation. Over the last decade there has been spark to significantly increase the human mental and physical power for extended life spans. This innovation is taking shape day by day by the efforts of some leading computer scientists, neuroscientists, nanotechnologists and researchers, who are at the forefront of technological development. They are thinking and taking challenge to alter the human condition at their will. They are trying to fine tune the human condition. Undoubtly with the pace of technology and research, it will be possible to face the prospect of such technologies as real artificial intelligence, new kinds of cognitive tools that combine artificial intelligence with new interface technology, powerful new molecular biological engineering and non-biological molecular nanotechnology. In the coming decades, technologies like genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology will transform human condition. A strange new world is unfolding - nightmarish to some, Utopian to others. Soon we'll have the power to reshape our children's genes, build machines that think, and upload our minds into computers. This paper has attempted to understand the concept and implementation of transhumanism and its vision. The paper has defined in short the transhumanism, its evolution and possibilities from the academic point of view.","PeriodicalId":410786,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Region 5 Conference","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124711114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of a Configurable ATR System Using MATLAB","authors":"E. Wright, J. Northern","doi":"10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562741","url":null,"abstract":"Highly efficient and adaptable image recognition systems have become a high priority within the last decade due to terrorism. This paper describes a design and development process for a configurable automatic target recognition system. Our novel template matching system employs a Matlab algorithm developed to accurately detect object patterns within a JPEG image. After downloading the original JPEG image, the Matlab algorithm processes it in three sequential phases: 1) \"Sobel\" edge detection of the original image 2) Grey- level template matching based on the squared Euclidean distance theory and 3) Statistical pattern recognition of the resulting convoluted image. For our test cases, the cross correlation was determined using a template library created for the algorithm's image recognition process. The average runtime for our system ranges from 5-8 minutes, per test case, with 100% correct recognition using the template matching technique described.","PeriodicalId":410786,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Region 5 Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131345568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Genetic Programming Lab (GPLab) Tool Set Version 3.0","authors":"E. William, J. Northern","doi":"10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562729","url":null,"abstract":"This report describes the release 3.0 of the Genetic Programming Lab (GPLab) tool set. GPLab is software that is publicly available and free to use under general public license (GNU) software regulations. MATLAB is a programming environment standard among scientist and engineers. This current release of GPLab handles bloat control, adjustment of fitness complementary to size, keeping track of fitness and raw fitness, and using adjusted values along the selection process. This paper contains a complete description of the GPLab utility suite and contains many details about the components of the tool. This guide is designed to run a research environment easily without need to browse extensively through the much detailed manual. Finally, this document is only for quick reference used to assist in the understanding of GPLab using a demonstration and a short example problem. The example shows how to analyze generation, fitness, nodes, pareto, and node trees (computer program) in the MATLAB/GPLab environment.","PeriodicalId":410786,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Region 5 Conference","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127450931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling of Substrate Noise Effects in Dynamic CMOS Circuits","authors":"S.R. Gosavi, W. Al-Assadi, S. Burugapalli","doi":"10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562723","url":null,"abstract":"The decrease in the feature size has led to the integration of both digital and analog circuits on the same silicon die which has led to many crosstalk issues. The crosstalk due to the substrate interactions also plagiarizes complete digital systems. This paper lays emphasis on this fact and because of the vulnerability of dynamic CMOS circuits to noise; a brief study of the effects of substrate variations on the performance of the dynamic CMOS circuits is carried out in this paper. The effects of substrate noise at very high frequencies (above 10 GHz) are also depicted in this paper. In order to accurately estimate the effects of substrate noise a substrate model is proposed and verified for functionality in the last section of this paper.","PeriodicalId":410786,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Region 5 Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123626976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Neural Network Demand Prediction Scheme for Resource Allocation in Cellular Wireless Systems","authors":"P. Sandhir, K. Mitchell","doi":"10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562719","url":null,"abstract":"Third generation cellular networks provide users with a variety of services such as multimedia and interactive applications that have ever increasing bandwidth requirements. In wireless systems, bandwidth is a scarce resource that needs to be used in an effective manner. Subscriber mobility also makes resource allocation a challenging task. In this paper, we propose an adaptive dynamic resource allocation policy based on a neural network demand prediction scheme for cellular wireless systems. Unlike some other proposed schemes, we do not require knowledge of the position and velocity of every mobile subscriber in the network. This greatly reduces signaling and computational overhead and results in a policy that is simple to implement. We perform a simulation study to compare the proposed scheme with other adaptive resource allocation schemes.","PeriodicalId":410786,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Region 5 Conference","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123340299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robust μ-Synthesis and H∞-Loop Shaping Controllers for a Boiler-Turbine Unit","authors":"M. Salehi, A. Afzalian","doi":"10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562715","url":null,"abstract":"The boiler-turbine unit is a highly nonlinear and strongly coupled complex system. In this paper a robust controller is designed using mu-synthesis and DK-iteration algorithm for a benchmark 160 MW boiler-turbine unit. The structured uncertainty which is considered for this plant is multiplicative input uncertainty, because it is always present. The advantage of this method is that it tries to obtain a controller that optimizes the index mu which determines robust stability and robust performance criteria. In order to evaluate the designed controller, it is compared with another robust controller which just optimizes the Hinfin norm of the transfer matrix from exogenous disturbances to exogenous outputs. The simulation results would show robust stability and robust performance of the boiler- turbine system.","PeriodicalId":410786,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Region 5 Conference","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132260703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving the Bandwidth of U-slot Microstrip Antenna Using a New Technique (Trough-Slot Patch)","authors":"EE M.Mahmoud","doi":"10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562733","url":null,"abstract":"Microstrip antennas caught the attention of many designers in the last decade due to its numerous advantages; on the other hand narrow bandwidth is a major disadvantage of microstrip antenna in practical applications. There are still lots of research done to increase the bandwidth of these antennas. In this paper the effect of increasing the finite ground plane on a probe fed U-slot microstrip antenna was proposed. Latter a new technique (Trough slot patch) was used to increase the bandwidth of the U-slot patch. The new technique gave good results since in most of the cases there were at least 3% increase.","PeriodicalId":410786,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Region 5 Conference","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114937271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AKM S. Haque, Md M. Hossain, W. Alan Davis, H. T. Russell, Ronald L. Carter
{"title":"Design of Sinusoidal, Triangular, and Square wave Generator Using Current Feedback Operational Amplifier (CFOA)","authors":"AKM S. Haque, Md M. Hossain, W. Alan Davis, H. T. Russell, Ronald L. Carter","doi":"10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562735","url":null,"abstract":"-This paper presents the design of a sinusoidal, triangular, and square wave generator using a high speed current feedback operational amplifier (CFOA). A macro model for the CFOA is developed as well. The frequency of oscillation in all cases are derived and compared with the simulated values. The achieved frequency of oscillation for sinusoidal wave is 9.4 MHz to 15 MHz and the achieved frequency of oscillation for the triangular/rectangular wave is 6.75 MHz to 59.5 MHz. The advantage of using the current feedback operational amplifier is to get higher frequency of sinusoidal, triangular, and square wave.","PeriodicalId":410786,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Region 5 Conference","volume":"182 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134300832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automatic Fluorescent Dot Counting in Interphase Cell Nuclei using Basis Pursuit Image Analysis","authors":"Zhenfei Tai, S. Cheng","doi":"10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562730","url":null,"abstract":"Fluorescent dot counting in interphase cell nuclei has always been useful in many aspects of clinical research and biomedical use. An iterative method is purposed in this paper using the basis pursuit algorithm for the processing of the fluorescent images, together with the threshold scheme to result in compressed sensed images useful for dot counting. A simple dot counting algorithm is employed on the processed images and compared with a conventional method to show the advantages of the new technique.","PeriodicalId":410786,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Region 5 Conference","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125430835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Secured Hardware Design - An Overview","authors":"S. Burugapalli, W. Al-Assadi","doi":"10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562750","url":null,"abstract":"Security is a prime concern in the design of a wide variety of embedded systems and security processors. So the customer security devices such as smart cards and security processors are prone to attack and there are on going research to protect these devices from attackers who intend to extract key information from these devices. Also an active attacker can induce errors during computation and exploit the faulty result to extract the key information embedded in the processor. Due to the design time issues weakness in the design is often revealed in the manufactured chips. Also because the post- manufacture security evaluation is time consuming and expensive, these security issues have to be considered at the design phase. This paper outlines some of the hardware attacks and provides a general idea of the process of these attacks.","PeriodicalId":410786,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Region 5 Conference","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130479390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}