City College of New York

SPARK AND THE DYNAMIC BEHAVIORAL ARCHITECTURE OF AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS

Autonomous robotics has traditionally been concerned with the ability of a machine to perceive its environment, make decisions, and act without continuous human intervention. Classical autonomous systems may react to changing circumstances, select among alternative actions, navig...

THE ALGORITHM PROCUREMENT PROBLEM IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Artificial intelligence systems can often solve the same task using substantially different computational methods. Depending on the problem, these may include rule-based and elimination procedures, lookup methods, direct algebraic solutions, pseudoinverse and regularized methods,...

SPARK AND THE DYNAMIC BEHAVIORAL ARCHITECTURE OF AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS

Autonomous robotics has traditionally been concerned with the ability of a machine to perceive its environment, make decisions, and act without continuous human intervention. Classical autonomous systems may react to changing circumstances, select among alternative actions, navig...

THE ALGORITHM PROCUREMENT PROBLEM IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Artificial intelligence systems can often solve the same task using substantially different computational methods. Depending on the problem, these may include rule-based and elimination procedures, lookup methods, direct algebraic solutions, pseudoinverse and regularized methods,...

Testing electron–photon exchange–correlation functional performance for many-electron systems under weak and strong light–matter coupling

We present results for a photon-free exchange–correlation functional within the local density approximation (pxcLDA) for quantum electrodynamics density functional theory (QEDFT), which efficiently describes the electron density of many-electron systems across weak to strong ligh...

Unexpected Suppression of Tomato Fruit Cuticle Formation by Overexpression of a Key Cutin Biosynthetic Enzyme

Fruit cuticles regulate the diffusion of water, gases and solutes, functioning as essential protective interfaces against environmental and biotic stresses. Engineering cuticle structure and mechanics therefore represents a promising strategy for improving fruit quality and resil...

Extreme vulnerability to intruder attacks destabilizes network dynamics

Abstract Consensus, synchronization, formation control, and power grid balance are examples of desirable dynamical states that arise in networks. Here we investigate how such states can be destabilized by an intruder agent within an otherwise functioning network. We see that a si...

Mid-infrared long-range surface polaritons in two-dimensional van der Waals materials

The discovery of graphene plasmons (GPs) and hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPhPs) in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials has enabled extreme light confinement and enhanced light-matter interactions, holding the promise for miniaturized mid-infrared (mid-IR) photoni...