It has been recognized for some time that the spontaneous emission by atoms is not necessarily a fixed and immutable property of the coupling between matter and space, but that ...
A new method for automatic indexing and retrieval is described. The approach is to take advantage of implicit higher-order structure in the association of terms with documents (...
Abstract Locally weighted regression, or loess, is a way of estimating a regression surface through a multivariate smoothing procedure, fitting a function of the independent var...
We have found that a standard, widespread, chemical-preparation method for silicon, oxidation followed by an HF etch, results in a surface which from an electronic point of view...
The problems are discussed of the recognition of handprinted and spoken digits and the handprinted and spoken English alphabet. Four such experiments were conducted and the resu...
We have carried out an experimental study of weak localization of photons in a rigid, nonabsorbing, disordered medium. Unlike recent results reported for particles in a fluid, w...
We describe two experiments that compare the relative utility of pictures, labels, and the combination of both as navigational aids for computerized catalog browsing. The result...