Stony Brook University

About: Stony Brook University is a education organization based out in Stony Brook, New York, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 32534 authors who have published 68218 publications receiving 3035131 citations. The organization is also known as: State University of New York at Stony Brook & SUNY Stony Brook.

Understanding traffic dynamics in cellular data networks

Abstract: We conduct the first detailed measurement analysis of network resource usage and subscriber behavior using a large-scale data set collected inside a nationwide 3G cellular data network. The data set tracks close to a million subscribers over thousands of base stations. We analyze individual subscriber behaviors and observe a significant variation in network usage among subscribers. We characterize subscriber mobility and temporal activity patterns and identify their relation to traffic volume. We then investigate how efficiently radio resources are used by different subscribers as well as by different applications. We also analyze the network traffic from the point of view of the base stations and find significant temporal and spatial variations in different parts of the network, while the aggregated behavior appears predictable. Broadly, our observations deliver important insights into network-wide resource usage. We describe implications in pricing, protocol design and resource and spectrum management.

Perceptual learning for speech.

Abstract: Adult language users have an enormous amount of experience with speech in their native language. As a result, they have very well-developed processes for categorizing the sounds of speech that they hear. Despite this very high level of experience, recent research has shown that listeners are capable of redeveloping their speech categorization to bring it into alignment with new variation in their speech input. This reorganization of phonetic space is a type of perceptual learning, or recalibration, of speech processes. In this article, we review several recent lines of research on perceptual learning for speech.

Promotion and Tenure: Community and Socialization in Academe

Abstract: (1997). Promotion and Tenure: Community and Socialization in Academe. The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 68, No. 5, pp. 591-593.

Differential characters and geometric invariants

Abstract: This paper first appeared in a collection of lecture notes which were distributed at the A.M.S. Summer Institute on Differential Geometry, held at Stanford in 1973. Since then it has been (and remains) the authors' intention to make available a more detailed version. But, in the mean time, we continued to receive requests for the original notes. Moreover, the secondary invariants we discussed have recently arisen in some new contexts, e.g. in physics and in the work of Cheeger and Gromov on "collapse" (which was the subject of the first author's lectures at the Special Year). For these reasons we decided to finally publish the notes, albeit in their original form.