The CMU Navlab group builds computer-controlled vehicles for automated and assisted driving. Since 1984, we have built a series of robot cars, vans, SUVs, and buses. More recent researches of Navlab ...

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I am interested in the performance analysis and design of computer systems, particularly distributed systems. I use analytical models to capture the important characteristics of a computer system, and ...

I am currently the chair of CATCS . Please check it out - we welcome any suggestions. I was the PC chair of SODA, 2024 . The accepted papers are here. An alternative talk schedule format is here. A ...

Herbert A. Simon's research has ranged from computer science to psychology, administration, and economics, and philosophy. The thread of continuity through all his work has been his interest in human ...

SEPA readings are from Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach. They are optional (since the text is optional), but may be a useful supplement to the lectures. Other (non-SEPA) ...

This short course is a quick review of linear algebra, intended for students who have already taken a previous course in linear algebra or have some experience with vectors and matrices. The goal of ...

The Marxen-Buntrock 5-state busy beaver. Running on an initially empty tape, the machine appears to be caught in some kind of loop, Yet, it halts after an absolutely astonishing 47,176,870 steps. This ...

Machine Learning is concerned with computer programs that automatically improve their performance through experience (e.g., programs that learn to recognize human faces, recommend music and movies, ...

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Localization, that is the estimation of a robot's location from sensor data, is a fundamental problem in mobile robotics. This papers presents a version of Markov localization which provides accurate ...

To anyone who has makes a serious study of Amway and the problems that have for so long plagued it, one thing becomes overwhelmingly obvious: if there is any one primary cause for almost all those ...