This capstone was submitted in the Spring of 2019, under the direct supervision of Dr. David Karpf and with additional guidance from Dr. Michelle Kimball and Dr. Ethan Porter. I would like to offer my deepest gratitude to my advisory committee, as well as the entire faculty at the School of Media...
After twenty years of rapidly expanding worldwide capacity and technical advance, proponents claim that offshore wind technology is commercially competitive, especially at high wind resource sites. However, the profitability of offshore projects depends on many uncertain parameters, some of them...
There is a point at the furthest reaches of the hypothetical pandemic influenza spectrum that is marked by a combination of greatest scarcity of medical resources and maximum disease severity. A severe pandemic was one of the two scenarios considered by U.S. federal government planners in their...
Continuous advances in semiconductor technologies have enabled the integration of billions of transistors in modern multicore processors. This offers software applications with abundant hardware resources to use. To realize more parallelism and higher performance, software developers are...