Technology Enhances the Arts
Haptic feedback technology offers innovative ways for visually impaired individuals to interact with their surroundings. Current solutions, however, are often prohibitively expensive and lac…
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Computers are everywhere today, and digital traces often remain that can help reconstruct past events. When available, computer forensic artifacts can be crucial in establishing guilt or inn…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Globally, an estimated 40-45 million people are blind, and an estimated 160 million are affected by deafness and blindness. Those who can hear can rely on speech to learn and communicate, wh…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Sign language serves as the main means of communication for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community, yet barriers persist for non-signers who either lack the practical exposure to master it o…
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Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks are one of the most common web vulnerabilities but are difficult to track and prevent. Websites have a very large XSS attack surface area, with every user…
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OpenAI's ChatGPT has blurred the line between human and AI-written text, challenging academia's ability to verify authorship. Existing AI detection systems fail with paraphrased content or m…
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In recent years, advancement in artificial intelligence and speech synthesis technologies, have made it possible to clone human voices with remarkable accuracy. While this opens many benefic…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Communication between the hearing impaired and the general people has long been an unresolved issue. Although sign language can solve this problem to some extent, sign language becomes ineff…
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Artificial intelligence has developed quickly and improved daily life for the majority of individuals, yet accessibility challenges persist for the visually impaired. Existing assistive tech…
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Third Award
Language workbenches and product lines allow users to customize programming languages by providing a framework for the creation of Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). They allow for quicker la…
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In the realm of machine learning, biased models stemming from inadequate representation in training datasets pose a significant challenge to real life applications of these models. Despite a…
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In this paper, we present several key contributions to the field of climate science and machine learning, with a specific focus on the prediction of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) p…
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The most popular Graph Neural Networks rely on the message-passing paradigm, where the idea is to iteratively propagate the representation information of every node to its direct neighborhoo…
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Monochromacy and Achromatopsia are color deficiencies in which people cannot see specific or no color at all. Color deficiency can either be inherited through genes or acquired. This project…
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The cost of computing resources to train the Large Language Model (LLM) is very high. In addition, LLMs cannot meet the requirements under medical Q&A scenario, which is requested to provide…
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the susceptibility of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm to quantum computing-based attacks. Quantum computers possess the potential…
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The rapid emergence of generative AI, particularly large-language-model-based conversational chatbots like ChatGPT, has spurred significant advancements. However, this progress has brought p…
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Over 430 million individuals worldwide require rehabilitative technologies to address their disabling hearing loss. When untreated, hearing loss results in cognitive fatigue, strained commun…
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Second Award
According to the World Health Organization, nearly 300 million people worldwide suffer from visual impairments, a number which is only expected to grow in the coming years. In the U.S. alone…
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In the 21st century, the depletion of fossil fuels is one of the most critical issues for industrial development, and solar power is gaining traction as a possible solution. As solar power g…
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South Korea has a high public transportation usage rate of 77.5% as of 2020, but a survey of visually impaired people found that 82% of respondents ranked buses as the most difficult mode of…
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Quantum Computers hold immense potential for solving complex problems beyond the capabilities of classical computers. However, their potential is limited by challenges such as decoherence. D…
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This project explores the application of language models in creating backpropagation-based neural networks for the detection of known and unknown malware. A representation learning model (RP…
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“Bridging the Gap Using EdTech and AI” includes the EdTech desktop application and an iOS mobile app with a workflow of three functions to make the use of AI for teaching/learning more effic…
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Astrophysicists seek methods of effectively conveying complex concepts to non-scientific audiences. Sonification, or the conversion of information into audio, improves the accessibility of t…
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COCOTherm addresses the challenges of monitoring wildlife overpasses as part of the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East Project. The wildlife monitoring program for this project involves 15 networked…
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Coded stock trading strategies are a fast-growing interest as they can help businesses and individuals not only learn but also make more money while putting themselves at less risk. I decide…
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The rise of community support platforms has captured the attention of various fields, from leisure to customer support. The existing solutions are often exclusive or add-ons to existing syst…
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Humanity has made great strides in Artificial Intelligence (AI) development since the 1960s. Today, because such technology has been made available to the public, there has been a rise in AI…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Third Award
Classical music education is a complex field requiring the teacher to evaluate a student based on audio and visual information. However, this approach can be error prone and biased. This pro…