Summary: The cellular wave computer architecture, based on the CNN universal machine principle, has been implemented recently in many different physical forms. The mixed mode CMOS, the emulated digital (cell wise or as aggregated arrays), FPGA, DSP, as well as optical implementations are the main examples. In many cases, the sensory array is integrated as well.
This course will begin with an introduction which will provide a historical overview, mind inspired and brain inspired computing models, the role of spatial address of a processor, new directions and products in computing The technology scenario. Other topics that will be addressed include:
Summary: Early diagnostics of diseases is the key to treatment, cure, and fatality prevention. Various biomedical sensors are available or being developed to achieve early disease diagnostics with non-invasive or minimally invasive techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasonic imaging, X-ray imaging, CT scan, optical coherent tomography (OCT), endoscopy, microscopy, spectroscopy, etc. Among these techniques, optical technologies, including various microscopy and spectroscopy approaches, provide the possibility to observe a large range of objects, from organs, cells, to molecules, with fast (ideally real-time) response and high spatial and spectral resolutions. In addition, to make the diagnostic tests of diseases, such as cancers, more accessible to the general public it is important to provide easy early diagnostic tools packaged as portable information devices. Such early diagnostics portable information devices must be highly sensitive, disease specific, reliable, inexpensive, easy to fabricate, fast, and compact.
This course will provide an overview of various optical biomedical sensors, including both imaging and spectroscopic techniques, and introduce some recent developments in biomedical sensors, such as nanoparticle surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and its application in compact molecular sensors. Specifically, the following topics will be discussed: interaction of light with tissues, cells, and molecules; bioimaging including optical microscopy, endoscopic imaging, fluorescence imaging, and optical tomography; spectroscopy including absorption spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, and Raman spectroscopy; optical fiber surface enhanced Raman probes for biomedical applications.
Summary: Smart Fabrics and Interactive Textile (SFIT) based systems are conceived as the integration, into textile, of sensors, actuators, computing, and a power source, with the whole being part of an interactive communication network. Such systems could only be envisaged through a combination of advances in fields as fiber and polymer research, advanced material processing, microelectronics, signals processing, nanotechnologies, and telecommunication.Textile is the common platform where smart materials in the form of fibers are integrated; where the properties of the material are augmented through combination of chemical surfaces processes; and where the structure of the fabric allows the use of redundant sensor configurations.
Promising recent developments in material processing, device design and system configuration enable the scientific and industrial community to concentrate efforts on the realization of smart textiles.
This course will discussion the use of textile materials for sensing functions. Textile technology for sensors fabrication will be presented. Methods for characterizations will also be discussed and examples of specific applications will be presented. The course will also provide an overview of future developments.
Summary: Terahertz sensing technology has a promise of many breakthrough and enabling applications including detection of biological and chemical hazardous agents, cancer detection, detection of mines and explosives, enhancement of people, building, and airport security, covert communications (in THz and sub-THz windows), and applications in radioastronomy and space research. This tutorial will review the famous THz gap and the-state-of-the-art of existing THz sources, detectors, and sensing systems. After completing this course you should be able to develop an understanding of: THz sensing of biological material; Broadband THz reflection and transmission detection of concealed objects; THz explosive identification; THz nanocomposite spectroscopy; THz remote sensing.
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