Brian Lee

Geometric Structures on Spaces of Weighted Submanifolds (2009)

Lee, Brian

In this paper we use a diffeo-geometric framework based on manifolds that are locally modeled on "convenient" vector spaces to study the geometry of some infinite dimensional spaces. Given a finite...

University of Maryland, (2009)

Ron B. Yeh, Chunyuan Liao, Scott R. Klemmer, François Guimbretière, Brian Lee, Boyko Kakaradov, ...

Through a study of field biology practices, we observed that biology fieldwork generates a wealth of heterogeneous information, requiring substantial labor to coordinate and distill. To manage this...

Designing for Latency: In Search of the Balance Between System Flexibility and Responsiveness (2009)

Brian Lee, Rafael Ballagas

This paper outlines experiences with latency and responsiveness in a distributed application. We analyze latency from the perspectives of the user and the system. From these experiences and analyses,...

Geometric Structures on Spaces of Weighted Submanifolds (2009)

Brian Lee

In this paper we use a diffeo-geometric framework based on manifolds that are locally modeled on ''convenient'' vector spaces to study the geometry of some infinite dimensional spaces. Given a finite...

INVITED REVIEW Current Therapeutic Antibody Production and Process Optimization (2008)

Feng Li, Joe X. Zhou, Xiaoming Yang Tim, Brian Lee

pipeline, monoclonal antibodies are a predominant modality for a broad range of clinical indications, including inflammatory disorders, oncology, and infectious diseases. 1 More than two dozen...

The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: II. Stellar Metallicity (2008)

Ivezic, Zeljko, Sesar, Branimir, Juric, Mario, Bond, Nicholas, Dalcanton, Julianne, Rockosi, Constance M., ...

Using effective temperature and metallicity derived from SDSS spectra for ~60,000 F and G type main sequence stars (0.2

Tightening the Loop: From Machine-Nature Communication Towards Symbiosis (2008)

Brian Lee, Yung Rowe, Chief Architect, Cenozoa Corporation

This paper presents an artistic collaboration between we, a project entitled ‘small work for robot and insects’ (2002). The project is an installation composed of a hexapod robot and a group of...

Technology for Design Education (2008)

Heidy Maldonado, Brian Lee, Scott Klemmer

A Case Study We present results of the first longitudinal study of physical and digital technology hybrids for design education. Through deployment in an introductory HCI class, we have instrumented...

Patterns of Collaboration in Design Courses: Team dynamics affect technology appropriation, artifact creation, and course performance (2008)

Heidy Maldonado, Brian Lee, Scott R. Klemmer, Roy D. Pea

Abstract: In a collaborative task, group dynamics have been shown to affect students’ grades, motivation to pursue a topic or subject, documentation of the experience, learning, enjoyment of a...

Range: Exploring Proxemics in Collaborative Whiteboard Interaction (2008)

Wendy Ju, Brian Lee, Scott Klemmer

Range is an interactive whiteboard designed to support collocated, ad-hoc meetings. It employs proximity sensing to proactively transition between ambient and authoring modes, clear space for...

Classroom Studies of Augmented Notebook Usage Informing the Design of Sharing Mechanisms (2008)

Brian Lee, Heidy Maldonado, Isabelle Kim, Paz Hilfinger-pardo, Scott R. Klemmer

Designers today use a variety of artifacts — both physical and digital — in the course of documenting their work. Physical and digital media have significantly different affordances and...

Adaptive Interfaces for Declarative Presentation of Heterogeneous Content (2008)

Brian Lee, Scott R. Klemmer, Ronen Brafman

Visibility of work practice is important because it enables peripheral participation of and facilitates coordination between colleagues. Moving activities from the physical world onto the digital...

Adaptive Interfaces for Supporting Design by Example (2008)

Brian Lee, Scott R. Klemmer, Savil Srivastava

Analogy plays an important cognitive role in reasoning and problem solving. One illustration of analogical cognition can be found in design practice, where viewing examples is an established...

The milky way tomography with SDSS. II. Stellar metallicity (2008)

Ivezic, Zeljko, Sesar, Branimir, Juric, Mario, Bond, Nicholas, Dalcanton, Julianne, Rockosi, Constance M., ...

Using effective temperature and metallicity derived from SDSS spectra for ~60,000 F- and G-type main-sequence stars (0.2

Modeling and Mapping of Nanotopography Interactions with CMP (2007)

Brian Lee, Duane S. Boning, Winthrop Baylies, Noel Poduje, John Valley

As the demand for planarity increases with advanced IC technologies, nanotopography has arisen as an important concern in shallow trench isolation (STI) chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) processes....

A Fixed Abrasive CMP Model (2007)

Brian Lee, Duane S. Boning, Laertis Economikos

Chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) has emerged as the planarization technique of choice in both front-end (STI) and back-end (ILD) integrated circuit manufacturing. Conventional CMP processes...

A Programmable Approach to Resource Charging in Multi-Service Networks (2007)

Brian Lee, Ericsson Systems Expertise

Abstract: A dynamic market is arising for telecommunication services, brought on by advances in technology and the growth of the Internet. This market is characterised by competition and innovation...

MODELING OF PATTERN DEPENDENCIES FOR MULTI-LEVEL COPPER CHEMICAL-MECHANICAL POLISHING PROCESSES (2007)

Tamba Tugbawa, Tae Park, Brian Lee, Duane Boning, Microsystems Technology Laboratories

We propose an integrated contact mechanics and density-step-height model of pattern dependencies for the chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) of multi-level copper interconnects, and show preliminary...

Wafer Nanotopography Effects on CMP: Experimental Validation of Modeling Methods (2007)

Brian Lee, Duane S. Boning, Winthrop Baylies, Noel Poduje, Pat Hester, Yong Xia, ...

Nanotopography refers to 10-100 nm surface height variations that exist on a lateral millimeter length scale on unpatterned silicon wafers. Chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) of deposited or grown...

Exploring the Variable Sky with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)

Sesar, Branimir, Ivezic, Zeljko, Lupton, Robert H., Juric, Mario, Gunn, James E., Knapp, Gillian R., ...

We quantify the variability of faint unresolved optical sources using a catalog based on multiple SDSS imaging observations. The catalog covers SDSS Stripe 82, and contains 58 million photometric...

Web Service Discovery with additional Semantics and Clustering (2007)

Nayak, Richi, Lee, Brian

Due to the lack of semantic descriptions of the Web services, the search results returned by the service registries are effectively inadequate. This paper presents the Semantic Web services...

Exploring the variable sky with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)

Sesar, Branimir, Ivezic, Zeljko, Lupton, Robert H., Juric, Mario, Gunn, James E., Knapp, Gillian R., ...

We quantify the variability of faint unresolved optical sources using a catalog based on multiple SDSS imaging observations. The catalog covers SDSS stripe 82, which lies along the celestial equator...

Sloan Digital Sky Survey Standard Star Catalog for stripe 82: the dawn of industrial 1% optical photometry (2007)

Ivezic, Zeljko, Allyn Smith, J., Miknaitis, Gajus, Lin, Huan, Tucker, Douglas, Lupton, Robert H., ...

We describe a standard star catalog constructed using multiple SDSS photometric observations (at least four per band, with a median of 10) in the ugriz system. The catalog includes 1.01 million...

Web Service Discovery with additional Semantics and Clustering (2007)

Nayak, Richi, Lee, Brian

Due to the lack of semantic descriptions of the Web services, the search results returned by the service registries are effectively inadequate. This paper presents the Semantic Web services...

Web Service Discovery with additional Semantics and Clustering (2007)

Nayak, Richi, Lee, Brian

Due to the lack of semantic descriptions of the Web services, the search results returned by the service registries are effectively inadequate. This paper presents the Semantic Web services...

Web Service Discovery with additional Semantics and Clustering (2007)

Nayak, Richi, Lee, Brian

Due to the lack of semantic descriptions of the Web services, the search results returned by the service registries are effectively inadequate. This paper presents the Semantic Web services...

Web Service Discovery with additional Semantics and Clustering (2007)

Nayak, Richi, Lee, Brian

Due to the lack of semantic descriptions of the Web services, the search results returned by the service registries are effectively inadequate. This paper presents the Semantic Web services...

Web Service Discovery with additional Semantics and Clustering (2007)

Nayak, Richi, Lee, Brian

Due to the lack of semantic descriptions of the Web services, the search results returned by the service registries are effectively inadequate. This paper presents the Semantic Web services...

Web Service Discovery with additional Semantics and Clustering (2007)

Nayak, Richi, Lee, Brian

Due to the lack of semantic descriptions of the Web services, the search results returned by the service registries are effectively inadequate. This paper presents the Semantic Web services...

Web Service Discovery with additional Semantics and Clustering (2007)

Nayak, Richi, Lee, Brian

Due to the lack of semantic descriptions of the Web services, the search results returned by the service registries are effectively inadequate. This paper presents the Semantic Web services...

Laser Interstitial Thermo-Therapy in Hepatic Tissue (2006)

Ahyow, Patrick, Lee, Brian, Wong, Kevin

Laser Interstitial ThermoTherapy (LITT) is a well establish surgical method used in the treatment of tumors. This study analyzes the extent of tissue damage when using LITT in a liver. GAMBIT and...

Neural computation of self-motion from optic flow in primate visual cortex (2006)

Lee, Brian

Area MSTd is involved in the computation of heading direction from the focus of expansion (FOE) of the visual image. Our laboratory previously found that MSTd neurons adjust their focus tuning curves...

Evaluating Augmented Idea Logs for Design Education (2006)

Brian Lee Computer, Brian Lee

Design students use a variety of physical and digital content in the course of their studies. Augmented paper interactions promise to address this tension, yet there have been few real-world...

Longitudinal Studies of Augmented Notebook Usage (2006)

Informing The Design, Brian Lee, Heidy Maldonado, Scott R. Klemmer, Paz Hilfinger-pardo, Isabelle Kim

Designers today use a variety of artifacts---both physical and digital---in the course of documenting their work. A resulting tension is that physical and digital media have significantly different...

ButterflyNet: A Mobile Capture and Access System for Field Biology Research (2006)

Ron B. Yeh, Chunyuan Liao, Scott R. Klemmer, François Guimbretière, Brian Lee, Boyko Kakaradov, ...

Through a study of field biology practices, we observed that biology fieldwork generates a wealth of heterogeneous information, requiring substantial labor to coordinate and distill. To manage this...

ButterflyNet: A Mobile Capture and Access System for Field Biology Research (2006)

Ron B. Yeh, Chunyuan Liao, Scott R. Klemmer, François Guimbretière, Brian Lee, Boyko Kakaradov, ...

Through a study of field biology practices, we observed that biology fieldwork generates a wealth of heterogeneous information, requiring substantial labor to coordinate and distill. To manage this...

Longitudinal Studies of Augmented Notebook Usage Informing the Design of Sharing Mechanisms (2006)

Brian Lee, Heidy Maldonado, Scott R. Klemmer, Isabelle Kim, Paz Hilfinger-pardo

Designers today use a variety of artifacts — both physical and digital — in the course of documenting their work. A resulting tension is that physical and digital media have significantly...

Improving Drag-and-Drop on Wall-Size Displays (2005)

Maxime Collomb, Patrick Baudisch, Brian Lee, Mountaz Hascoët

On wall-size displays with pen or touch input, users can have difficulties reaching display contents located too high, too low, or too far away. Drag-and-drop interactions can be further complicated...

La nave dei pirati (2005)

Lee, Brian

La nave dei pirati, un fantastico libro pop-up, illustrazioni di Brian Lee [progetto di Keith Finch, testi di Robin Wright e Pat Hegarty]. . - San Dorligo della Valle. NALUAF00000695, Emme....

Multistrategy Learning Methods for Multirobot Systems (2003)

Arkin, Ronald C., Endo, Yoichiro, Lee, Brian, MacKenzie, Douglas Christopher, Martinson, Eric

This article describes three different methods for introducing machine learning into a hybrid deliberative/reactive architecture for multirobot systems: learning momentum, Q-learning, and CBR...

ICrafter: A service framework for ubiquitous computing environments (2001)

Shankar R. Ponnekanti, Brian Lee, O Fox, Pat Hanrahan

Abstract. In this paper, we propose ICrafter, a framework for services and their user interfaces in a class of ubiquitous computing environments. The chief objective of ICrafter is to let users...

ICrafter: A Service Framework for Ubiquitous Computing Environments (2001)

Shankar R. Ponnekanti, Brian Lee, Armando Fox, O Fox, Terry Winograd, Pat Hanrahan

In this paper, we propose ICrafter, a framework for services and their user interfaces in a class of ubiquitous computing environments.

Modeling Of Pattern Dependencies In Abrasive-Free (2001)

Copper Chemical Mechanical, Tamba Tugbawa, Tae Park, Brian Lee, Duane Boning, Paul Lefevre, ...

We present a density-step-height based pattern dependent model for abrasive-free copper chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) processes, and show comparisons with experimental data. The model uses...

Using Smart Dummy Fill And Selective Reverse Etchback For Pattern Density Equalization (2000)

Brian Lee, Duane S. Boning, Dale L. Hetherington, David J. Stein

The existence of pattern effect in films polished by CMP processes has been well documented [5][6]. Large variations in effective pattern density have been shown to result in significant and...

Using Wafer-Scale Patterns for CMP Analysis (2000)

Brian Lee, Terence Gan, Duane S. Boning, Jeffrey David, Benjamin A. Bonner, Peter McKeever, ...

A new set of wafer-scale patterns has been designed for analysis and modeling of key CMP effects. In particular, the goal of this work is to develop methods to characterize the planarization...

Gioca con gli Acchiappa Fantasmi (1998)

Lee, Brian

Gioca con gli Acchiappa Fantasmi, Brian LEE, traduzione di Paola Parazzoni. . - Milano. NALUAF000464, Fabbri Editori. NAEDAF002207, 1998.

Results from GROCSE, a real-time search for the Optical Counterparts of Gamma-Ray bursts (1995)

Akerlof, Carl W., Ables, Elden, Barthelmy, Scott, Bionta, Richard M., Cline, Thomas, Ferguson, Donald, ...

The GROCSE Collaboration (Gamma-Ray Optical Counterpart Search Experiment) has been operating a rapid response camera since January 1994 in an attempt to capture optical images of GRB events. This...