Jim Nickolaou

TL;DR: This dissertation aims to provide a history of web exceptionalism from 1989 to 2002, a period chosen in order to explore its roots as well as specific cases up to and including the year in which descriptions of “Web 2.0” began to circulate.

TL;DR: Boss is an autonomous vehicle that uses on-board sensors to track other vehicles, detect static obstacles, and localize itself relative to a road model using a spiral system development process with a heavy emphasis on regular, regressive system testing.

TL;DR: The main goal of this work is to summarize sensing requirements of both short- and long-range automotive radars and to highlight present challenges to both systems.

TL;DR: The unique requirements of automotive active safety systems which drive the challenging specifications of next-generation automotive short range radar sensors are discussed, along with possible paths towards achieving future performance metrics.

TL;DR: It is predicted that the mission management and perception requirements of self-piloting aircraft differ significantly from self-driving cars and requires the development of aviation specific technologies, and the highly-reliable control and system automation technology developed for conditionally and highly automated cars can have a significant beneficial effect on personal aviation, even if full automation is not immediately feasible.