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Increasing the coherence time in a magnetically-sensitive stimulated Raman transition in 85Rb

October 14, 2014
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Conference Paper
Author:
Sara A. DeSavage
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Published in:
FIO 2014: Frontiers in Optics, 14 October 2014.
Topic:
quantum
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We experimentally study the Ramsey, spin echo, and CPMG pulse sequences of a magnetically sensitive transition of a cold 85Rb gas. We can increase the coherence time by up to a factor of 10 by using CPMG pulse sequences as compared to Ramsey or spin echo.
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We experimentally study the Ramsey, spin echo, and CPMG pulse sequences of a magnetically sensitive transition of a cold 85Rb gas. We can increase the coherence time by up to a factor of 10 by using CPMG pulse sequences as compared to Ramsey or spin echo.

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Increasing the coherence time in a magnetically-sensitive stimulated Raman transition in 85Rb

Energy efficiency benefits of subthreshold-optimized transistors for digital logic

October 6, 2014
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Conference Paper
Author:
Peter J. Grossmann
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Published in:
2014 IEEE SOI-3D-Subthreshold Microelectronics Technology Unified Conf. (S3S), 6-9 October 2014.
Topic:
integrated circuit
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The minimum energy point of an integrated circuit (IC) is defined as the value of the supply voltage at which the energy per operation of the circuit is minimized. Several factors influence what the value of this voltage can be, including the topology of the circuit itself, the input activity factor, and the process technology in which the circuit is implemented. For application-specific ICs (ASICs), the minimum energy point usually occurs at a subthreshold supply voltage. Advances in subthreshold circuit design now permit correct circuit operation at, or even below, the minimum energy point. Since energy consumption is proportional to the square of the supply voltage, circuit design techniques and process technology choices that reduce the minimum energy point inherently improve the energy efficiency of ICs. Previous research has shown that optimizing process technology for subthreshold operation can improve IC energy efficiency. This, coupled with the energy efficiency advantages offered by fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI) processes, have led to the development of a subthreshold-optimized FDSOI process at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (MITLL) called xLP (Extreme Low Power). However, to date there has not been a quantitative estimate of the energy efficiency benefit of xLP or other analagous technology for complex digital circuits. This paper will show via simulation that the xLP process technology enables energy efficiency improvements that exceed that of process scaling by one generation. Specifically, the process is shown to improve power delay product by 57% vs. the IBM 90nm low power bulk process, and by 9% vs. the IBM 65 nm low power bulk technology at 0.3V.
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The minimum energy point of an integrated circuit (IC) is defined as the value of the supply voltage at which the energy per operation of the circuit is minimized. Several factors influence what the value of this voltage can be, including the topology of the circuit itself, the input activity...

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Energy efficiency benefits of subthreshold-optimized transistors for digital logic

Quantitative evaluation of dynamic platform techniques as a defensive mechanism

September 17, 2014
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Conference Paper
Author:
Hamed Okhravi
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RAID 2014: 17th Int. Symp. on Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses, 17-19 September 2014.
Topic:
systems analysis
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Cyber defenses based on dynamic platform techniques have been proposed as a way to make systems more resilient to attacks. These defenses change the properties of the platforms in order to make attacks more complicated. Unfortunately, little work has been done on measuring the effectiveness of these defenses. In this work, we first measure the protection provided by a dynamic platform technique on a testbed. The counter-intuitive results obtained from the testbed guide us in identifying and quantifying the major effects contributing to the protection in such a system. Based on the abstract effects, we develop a generalized model of dynamic platform techniques which can be used to quantify their effectiveness. To verify and validate out results, we simulate the generalized model and show that the testbed measurements and the simulations match with small amount of error. Finally, we enumerate a number of lessons learned in our work which can be applied to quantitative evaluation of other defensive techniques.
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Cyber defenses based on dynamic platform techniques have been proposed as a way to make systems more resilient to attacks. These defenses change the properties of the platforms in order to make attacks more complicated. Unfortunately, little work has been done on measuring the effectiveness of these defenses. In this...

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Quantitative evaluation of dynamic platform techniques as a defensive mechanism

Using deep belief networks for vector-based speaker recognition

September 14, 2014
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Conference Paper
Author:
William M. Campbell
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INTERSPEECH 2014: 15th Annual Conf. of the Int. Speech Communication Assoc., 14-18 September 2014.
Topic:
human language technology
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Deep belief networks (DBNs) have become a successful approach for acoustic modeling in speech recognition. DBNs exhibit strong approximation properties, improved performance, and are parameter efficient. In this work, we propose methods for applying DBNs to speaker recognition. In contrast to prior work, our approach to DBNs for speaker recognition starts at the acoustic modeling layer. We use sparse-output DBNs trained with both unsupervised and supervised methods to generate statistics for use in standard vector-based speaker recognition methods. We show that a DBN can replace a GMM UBM in this processing. Methods, qualitative analysis, and results are given on a NIST SRE 2012 task. Overall, our results show that DBNs show competitive performance to modern approaches in an initial implementation of our framework.
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Deep belief networks (DBNs) have become a successful approach for acoustic modeling in speech recognition. DBNs exhibit strong approximation properties, improved performance, and are parameter efficient. In this work, we propose methods for applying DBNs to speaker recognition. In contrast to prior work, our approach to DBNs for speaker recognition...

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Using deep belief networks for vector-based speaker recognition

Talking Head Detection by Likelihood-Ratio Test(220.2 KB)

September 12, 2014
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Author:
Carl B. Quillen
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Published in:
Second Workshop on Speech, Language, Audio in Multimedia
Topic:
machine translation
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Detecting accurately when a person whose face is visible in an audio-visual medium is the audible speaker is an enabling technology with a number of useful applications. The likelihood-ratio test formulation and feature signal processing employed here allow the use of high-dimensional feature sets in the audio and visual domain, and the approach appears to have good detection performance for AV segments as short as a few seconds.
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Detecting accurately when a person whose face is visible in an audio-visual medium is the audible speaker is an enabling technology with a number of useful applications. The likelihood-ratio test formulation and feature signal processing employed here allow the use of high-dimensional feature sets in the audio and visual domain...

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Talking Head Detection by Likelihood-Ratio Test

Computing on masked data: a high performance method for improving big data veracity

September 9, 2014
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Conference Paper
Author:
Jeremy Kepner
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HPEC 2014: IEEE Conf. on High Performance Extreme Computing, 9-11 September 2014.
Topic:
cryptography
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The growing gap between data and users calls for innovative tools that address the challenges faced by big data volume, velocity and variety. Along with these standard three V's of big data, an emerging fourth "V" is veracity, which addresses the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the data. Traditional cryptographic techniques that ensure the veracity of data can have overheads that are too large to apply to big data. This work introduces a new technique called Computing on Masked Data (CMD), which improves data veracity by allowing computations to be performed directly on masked data and ensuring that only authorized recipients can unmask the data. Using the sparse linear algebra of associative arrays, CMD can be performed with significantly less overhead than other approaches while still supporting a wide range of linear algebraic operations on the masked data. Databases with strong support of sparse operations, such as SciDB or Apache Accumulo, are ideally suited to this technique. Examples are shown for the application of CMD to a complex DNA matching algorithm and to database operations over social media data.
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The growing gap between data and users calls for innovative tools that address the challenges faced by big data volume, velocity and variety. Along with these standard three V's of big data, an emerging fourth "V" is veracity, which addresses the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the data. Traditional cryptographic...

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Computing on masked data: a high performance method for improving big data veracity

Liquid crystal uncooled thermal imager development

September 9, 2014
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Conference Paper
Author:
Harry R. Clark Jr
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Published in:
2014 Military Sensing Symposia, (MSS 2014), Detectors and Materials, 9 September 2014.
Topic:
sensors
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An uncooled thermal imager is being developed based on a liquid crystal transducer. The liquid crystal transducer changes a long-wavelength infrared scene into a visible image as opposed to an electric signal in microbolometers. This approach has the potential for making a more flexible thermal sensor. One objective is to develop imager technology scalable to large formats (tens of megapixels) while maintaining or improving the noise equivalent temperature difference (NETD) compared to microbolometers. Our work is demonstrating that the liquid crystals have the required performance (sensitivity, dynamic range, speed, etc.) to make state-of-the-art uncooled imagers. A process has been developed and arrays have been fabricated using the liquid crystals. A breadboard camera system has been assembled to test the imagers. Results of the measurements are discussed.
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An uncooled thermal imager is being developed based on a liquid crystal transducer. The liquid crystal transducer changes a long-wavelength infrared scene into a visible image as opposed to an electric signal in microbolometers. This approach has the potential for making a more flexible thermal sensor. One objective is to...

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Liquid crystal uncooled thermal imager development

Sparse matrix partitioning for parallel eigenanalysis of large static and dynamic graphs

September 9, 2014
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Conference Paper
Author:
Michael M. Wolf
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Published in:
HPEC 2014: IEEE Conf. on High Performance Extreme Computing, 9-11 September 2014.
Topic:
big data
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Numerous applications focus on the analysis of entities and the connections between them, and such data are naturally represented as graphs. In particular, the detection of a small subset of vertices with anomalous coordinated connectivity is of broad interest, for problems such as detecting strange traffic in a computer network or unknown communities in a social network. These problems become more difficult as the background graph grows larger and noisier and the coordination patterns become more subtle. In this paper, we discuss the computational challenges of a statistical framework designed to address this cross-mission challenge. The statistical framework is based on spectral analysis of the graph data, and three partitioning methods are evaluated for computing the principal eigenvector of the graph's residuals matrix. While a standard one-dimensional partitioning technique enables this computation for up to four billion vertices, the communication overhead prevents this method from being used for even larger graphs. Recent two-dimensional partitioning methods are shown to have much more favorable scaling properties. A data-dependent partitioning method, which has the best scaling performance, is also shown to improve computation time even as a graph changes over time, allowing amortization of the upfront cost.
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Numerous applications focus on the analysis of entities and the connections between them, and such data are naturally represented as graphs. In particular, the detection of a small subset of vertices with anomalous coordinated connectivity is of broad interest, for problems such as detecting strange traffic in a computer network...

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Sparse matrix partitioning for parallel eigenanalysis of large static and dynamic graphs

A test-suite generator for database systems

September 9, 2014
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Conference Paper
Author:
Ariel T. Hamlin
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Published in:
HPEC 2014: IEEE Conf. on High Performance Extreme Computing, 9-11 September 2014.
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systems analysis
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In this paper, we describe the SPAR Test Suite Generator (STSG), a new test-suite generator for SQL style database systems. This tool produced an entire test suite (data, queries, and ground-truth answers) as a unit and in response to a user's specification. Thus, database evaluators could use this tool to craft test suites for particular aspects of a specific database system. The inclusion of ground-truth answers in the produced test suite, furthermore, allowed this tool to support both benchmarking (at various scales) and correctness-checking in a repeatable way. Lastly, the test-suite generator of this document was extensively profiled and optimized, and was designed for test-time agility.
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In this paper, we describe the SPAR Test Suite Generator (STSG), a new test-suite generator for SQL style database systems. This tool produced an entire test suite (data, queries, and ground-truth answers) as a unit and in response to a user's specification. Thus, database evaluators could use this tool to...

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A test-suite generator for database systems

A survey of cryptographic approaches to securing big-data analytics in the cloud

September 9, 2014
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Conference Paper
Author:
Sophia Yakoubov
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Published in:
HPEC 2014: IEEE Conf. on High Performance Extreme Computing, 9-11 September 2014.
Topic:
supercomputing
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The growing demand for cloud computing motivates the need to study the security of data received, stored, processed, and transmitted by a cloud. In this paper, we present a framework for such a study. We introduce a cloud computing model that captures a rich class of big-data use-cases and allows reasoning about relevant threats and security goals. We then survey three cryptographic techniques - homomorphic encryption, verifiable computation, and multi-party computation - that can be used to achieve these goals. We describe the cryptographic techniques in the context of our cloud model and highlight the differences in performance cost associated with each.
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The growing demand for cloud computing motivates the need to study the security of data received, stored, processed, and transmitted by a cloud. In this paper, we present a framework for such a study. We introduce a cloud computing model that captures a rich class of big-data use-cases and allows...

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A survey of cryptographic approaches to securing big-data analytics in the cloud
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