Ron Weiss

Oracle ® Database Concepts 10g Release 2 (10.2) (2009)

Vasudha Krishnaswamy, Bill Lee, Bryn Llewellyn, Rich Long, Diana Lorentz, Paul Manning, ...

The Programs (which include both the software and documentation) contain proprietary information; they are provided under a license agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and are...

Departments of Electrical Engineering and Molecular Biology (2008)

Ron Weiss

Synthetic biology is revolutionizing how we conceptualize and approach the engineering of biological systems. Recent advances in the field are allowing us to expand beyond the construction and...

SPECIAL ISSUE ON SYSTEMS BIOLOGY – TRANS. CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I / TRANS. AUTOMATIC CONTROL 1 Temporal Logic Analysis of Gene Networks under Parameter Uncertainty (2008)

Grégory Batt, Calin Belta, Ron Weiss

Abstract — The lack of precise numerical information for the values of biological parameters severely limits the development and analysis of models of genetic regulatory networks. To deal with this...

R.: Engineering signal processing in cells: Towards molecular concentration band detection (2008)

Subhayu Basu, David Karig, Ron Weiss

We seek to couple protein-ligand interactions with synthetic gene networks in order to equip cells with the ability to process internal and environmental information in novel ways. In this paper, we...

Source Models (2008)

Dan Ellis, Ron Weiss, Vq Source, Models Ellis

• How to separate overlapping sounds?

Automatic Drum Transcription – p. 3/10 (2008)

Ron Weiss

• Detect drum events in polyphonic music signal and assign class label • Why • Characterize rhythm of particular piece of music • Classify/search based on rhythmic similarity • Genre...

BIOINFORMATICS ORIGINAL PAPER doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm362 Systems Biology Robustness analysis and tuning of synthetic gene networks (2008)

Grégory Batt, Boyan Yordanov, Ron Weiss, Calin Belta

Motivation: The goal of synthetic biology is to design and construct biological systems that present a desired behavior. The construction of synthetic gene networks implementing simple functions has...

BIOINFORMATICS ORIGINAL PAPER Robustness analysis and tuning of synthetic gene networks (2008)

Grégory Batt, Boyan Yordanov, Ron Weiss, Calin Belta

Motivation: The goal of synthetic biology is to design and construct biological systems that present a desired behavior. The construction of synthetic gene networks implementing simple functions has...

© 2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. Genetic circuit building blocks for cellular computation, communications, and signal processing (2008)

Ron Weiss, Subhayu Basu, Sara Hooshangi, David Karig, Rishabh Mehreja

Abstract. In this paper, we review an emerging engineering discipline to program cell behaviors by embedding synthetic gene networks that perform computation, communications, and signal processing....

DNA6: Sixth International Meeting on DNA Based Computers Engineered Communications for Microbial Robotics (2008)

Ron Weiss, Thomas F. Knight

Abstract. Multicellular organisms create complex patterned structures from identical, unreliable components. Learning how to engineer such robust behavior is important to both an improved...

Evaluating the Accuracy of Query Refinement (2007)

Ron Weiss

This paper introduces the first metric for comparing query refinement algorithms using standard collections, together with the first set of empirical measurements of query refinement known to the...

Algebraic Video for Composition and Content-Based Access (2007)

Ron Weiss, Andrzej Duda, David K. Gifford

We introduce a new data model called algebraic video that provides operations for the composition, search, navigation and playback of digital video presentations. Video presentations are composed...

y (2007)

Mark A. Sheldon, Andrzej Duda, Ron Weiss, James W. O'toole, David K. Gifford

(DARPA) under contract DABT63-92-C-0012. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either...

Amorphous Computing 1 (2007)

Harold Abelson, Don Allen, Daniel Coore, Chris Hanson, George Homsy, Thomas F, ...

Amorphous computing is the development of organizational principles and programming languages for obtaining coherent behavior from the cooperation of myriads of unreliable parts that are...

y (2007)

Andrzej Duda, Ron Weiss

(DARPA) under contract DABT63-92-C-0012. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either...

Engineered bidirectional communication mediates a consensus in a microbial biofilm consortium (2007)

Brenner, Katie, Karig, David K., Weiss, Ron, Arnold, Frances H.

Microbial consortia form when multiple species colocalize and communally generate a function that none is capable of alone. Consortia abound in nature, and their cooperative metabolic activities...

Robustness analysis and tuning of synthetic gene networks (2007)

Batt, Grégory, Yordanov, Boyan, Weiss, Ron, Belta, Calin

Motivation: The goal of synthetic biology is to design and construct biological systems that present a desired behavior. The construction of synthetic gene networks implementing simple functions has...

Model checking liveness properties of genetic regulatory networks (2007)

Grégory Batt, Calin Belta, Ron Weiss

Abstract. Recent studies have demonstrated the possibility to build genetic regulatory networks that confer a desired behavior to a living organism. However, the design of these networks is...

Oracle ® Data Guard Concepts and Administration 10g Release 2 (10.2) (2006)

Barbara Benton, Larry Carpenter, George Claborn, Laurence Clarke, Jay Davison, Ray Dutcher, ...

The Programs (which include both the software and documentation) contain proprietary information; they are provided under a license agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and are...

Automated design and programming of a microfluidic DNA computer (2006)

Michael S. Livstone, Ron Weiss, Laura F

Abstract. Previously, we described ways to implement the functions AND and OR in a DNA computer consisting of microreactors with attached heating elements that control annealing of DNA. Based on...

Oracle ® Database Concepts 10g Release 2 (10.2) (2005)

Vasudha Krishnaswamy, Bill Lee, Bryn Llewellyn, Rich Long, Diana Lorentz, Paul Manning, ...

The Programs (which include both the software and documentation) contain proprietary information; they are provided under a license agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and are...

Optimizing genetic circuits by global sensitivity analysis (2004)

Xiao-jiang Feng, Sara Hooshangi, Y David Chen, Y Genyuan Li, Ron Weiss, Herschel Rabitz

ABSTRACT Artificial genetic circuits are becoming important tools for controlling cellular behavior and studying molecular biosystems. To genetically optimize the properties of complex circuits in a...

Model Checking Genetic Regulatory Networks using GNA and CADP (2004)

Grégory Batt, Calin Belta, Ron Weiss

Abstract. The lack of precise numerical information for the values of biological parameters severely limits the development and analysis of models of genetic regulatory networks. To deal with this...

Genetic circuit building blocks for cellular computation, communications, and signal processing (2003)

Ron Weiss, Subhayu Basu, Sara Hooshangi, Abigail Kalmbach, David Karig, Rishabh Mehreja, ...

Abstract. In this paper, we review an emerging engineering discipline to program cell behaviors by embedding synthetic gene networks that perform computation, communications, and signal processing....

Directed evolution of a genetic circuit (2002)

Yokobayashi, Yohei, Weiss, Ron, Arnold, Frances H.

The construction of artificial networks of transcriptional control elements in living cells represents a new frontier for biological engineering. However, biological circuit engineers will have to...

Amorphous Computing (1999)

Abelson, Harold, Allen, Don, Coore, Daniel, Hanson, Chris, Homsy, George, ...

Amorphous computing is the development of organizational principles and programming languages for obtaining coherent behaviors from the cooperation of myriads of unreliable parts that are...

Amorphous Computing (1999)

Abelson, Harold, Allen, Don, Coore, Daniel, Hanson, Chris, Homsy, George, ...

Amorphous computing is the development of organizational principles and programming languages for obtaining coherent behaviors from the cooperation of myriads of unreliable parts that are...

Oracle8i Backup and Recovery Guide Release 2 (8.1.6) (1999)

John Frazzini, Tim Berry-hart, Wei Hu, Mike Johnson, Joy Kundu, Gordon Larimer, ...

The Programs are not intended for use in any nuclear, aviation, mass transit, medical, or other inherently dangerous applications. It shall be the licensee’s responsibility to take all appropriate...

Toward in vivo Digital Circuits (1999)

Ron Weiss, George E. Homsy, Thomas F. Knight

. We propose a mapping from digital logic circuits into genetic regulatory networks with the following property: the chemical activity of such a genetic network in vivo implements the computation...

Programming Colonies of Biological Cells (1999)

Ron Weiss

This document outlines an approach for demonstrating the feasibility of programming colonies of biological cells using in vivo digital circuits. Simulation results suggest that in vivo digital...

Programming biological cells (1998)

Ron Weiss, George Homsy, Radhika Nagpal

It appears that biological organisms can be harnessed as substrates for computation. Biological cells possess important characteristics, such as energy efficiency, selfreproduction, and miniature...

Programming biological cells (1998)

Ron Weiss, George Homsy, Radhika Nagpal

It appears that biological organisms can be harnessed as substrates for computation. Biological cells possess important characteristics, such as energy efficiency, selfreproduction, and miniature...

Programming biological cells (1998)

Ron Weiss, George Homsy, Radhika Nagpal

It appears that biological organisms can be harnessed as substrates for computation. Biological cells possess important characteristics, such as energy efficiency, selfreproduction, and miniature...

Programming biological cells (1998)

Ron Weiss, George Homsy, Radhika Nagpal

It appears that biological organisms can be harnessed as substrates for computation. Biological cells possess important characteristics, such as energy efficiency, selfreproduction, and miniature...

Paradigms for Structure in an Amorphous Computer (1997)

Coore, Daniel, Nagpal, Radhika, Weiss, Ron

Recent developments in microfabrication and nanotechnology will enable the inexpensive manufacturing of massive numbers of tiny computing elements with sensors and actuators. New programming...

Paradigms for Structure in an Amorphous Computer (1997)

Coore, Daniel, Nagpal, Radhika, Weiss, Ron

Recent developments in microfabrication and nanotechnology will enable the inexpensive manufacturing of massive numbers of tiny computing elements with sensors and actuators. New programming...

Paradigms for Structure in an Amorphous Computer (1997)

Daniel Coore, Radhika Nagpal, Ron Weiss

Recent developments in microfabrication and nanotechnology will enable the inexpensive manufacturing of massive numbers of tiny computing elements with sensors and actuators. New programming...

Fast and e ective query re nement (1997)

Bienvenido Velez, Ron Weiss, Mark A. Sheldon

Query Re nement is an essential information retrieval tool that interactively recommends new terms related to a particular query. This paper introduces concept recall, an experimental measure of an...

Paradigms for structure in an amorphous computer (1997)

Daniel Coore, Radhika Nagpal, Ron Weiss

Recent developments in microfabrication and nanotechnology will enable the inexpensive manufacturing of massive numbers of tiny computing elements with sensors and actuators. New programming...

Evaluating the Accuracy of Query Refinement (1996)

Bienvenido Elez-Rivera, Ron Weiss

This paper introduces the first metric for comparing query refinement algorithms using standard collections, together with the first set of empirical measurements of query refinement known to the...

Hypursuit: A hierarchical network search engine that exploits content-link hypertext clustering (1996)

Ron Weiss, Bienvenido Velez, Mark A. Sheldon, Chanathip Namprempre, Peter Szilagyi, Andrzej Duda, ...

HyPursuit is a new hierarchical network search engine that clusters hypertext documents to structure a given information space for browsing and search activities. Our content-link clustering...

Hypursuit: A hierarchical network search engine that exploits content-link hypertext clustering (1996)

Ron Weiss, Peter Szilagyi, Andrzej Duda, David K. Gifford

ABSTRACT HyPursuit is a new hierarchical network search engine that clusters hypertext documents to structure a given information space for browsing and search activities. Our content-link clustering...

Discover: A resource discovery system based on content routing (1995)

Mark A. Sheldon, Andrzej Duda, Ron Weiss

Abstract. We have built an HTTP based resource discovery system called Discover that provides a single point of access to over 500 WAIS servers. Discover provides two key services: query re nement...

Amorphous Computing (1995)

Harold Abelson, Don Allen, Daniel Coore, Chris Hanson, George Homsy, Thomas F. Knight Jr., ...

Amorphous computing is the development of organizational principles and programming languages for obtaining coherent behavior from the cooperation of myriads of unreliable parts that are...

Discover: A Resource Discovery System based on Content Routing (1995)

Mark Sheldon, Andrzej Duda, Ron Weiss, David K. Gifford

. We have built an HTTP based resource discovery system called Discover that provides a single point of access to over 500 WAIS servers. Discover provides two key services: query refinement and query...

Discover: A Resource Discovery System based on Content Routing (1995)

Mark A. Sheldon, Andrzej Duda, Ron Weiss, David K. Gifford

. We have built an HTTP based resource discovery system called Discover that provides a single point of access to over 500 WAIS servers. Discover provides two key services: query refinement and query...

Discover: A resource discovery system based on content routing (1995)

Mark A. Sheldon, Andrzej Duda, Ron Weiss

Abstract. We have built an HTTP based resource discovery system called Discover that provides a single point of access to over 500 WAIS servers. Discover provides two key services: query re nement...

Content-based access to algebraic video /--by Ron Weiss. (1994)

Weiss, Ron.

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994.

A content routing system for distributed information servers (1994)

Mark A. Sheldon, Andrzej Duda Y, Ron Weiss, James W. O'toole

(DARPA) under contract DABT63-92-C-0012. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the o cial policies, either...

Content-based access to algebraic video (1994)

Andrzej Duda, Ron Weiss, David K. Gifford

Algebraic video uses a set of basic operations on video segments to create a desired video stream. The video algebra consists of operations for combining video segments, temporally organizing video...

Content routing for distributed information servers (1994)

Mark A. Sheldon, Andrzej Duda, Ron Weiss, James W. O'toole

Abstract. We describe a system that provides query based associative access to the contents of distributed information servers. In typical distributed information systems there are so many objects...

Content Routing for Distributed Information Servers (1994)

Mark A. Sheldon, Andrzej Duda, Ron Weiss, James W. O'Toole, David K. Gifford

. We describe a system that provides query based associative access to the contents of distributed information servers. In typical distributed information systems there are so many objects that...

Content routing for distributed information servers (1994)

Mark A. Sheldon, Andrzej Duda, Ron Weiss, James W. O'toole

Abstract. We describe a system that provides query based associative access to the contents of distributed information servers. In typical distributed information systems there are so many objects...

A content routing system for distributed information servers (1994)

Mark A. Sheldon, Andrzej Duda Y, Ron Weiss, James W. O'toole

(DARPA) under contract DABT63-92-C-0012. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the o cial policies, either...

Content routing for distributed information servers (1994)

Mark A. Sheldon, Andrzej Duda, Ron Weiss

1 Introduction The Internet contains over one million hosts that provide file service and other information servers specializing in topics such as news, technical reports, biology, geography, and...

Structured Video: A Data Type with Content-Based Access (1993)

Andrzej Duda Y, Ron Weiss

(DARPA) under contract DABT63-92-C-0012. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the o cial policies, either...

Structured Video: A Data Type with Content-Based Access (1993)

Andrzej Duda Y, Ron Weiss

(DARPA) under contract DABT63-92-C-0012. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the o cial policies, either...

A Comparison of Internet Resource Discovery Approaches (1992)

Michael F. Schwartz, Alan Emtage, Brewster Kahle, Mark A. Sheldon, Andrzej Duda, Ron Weiss, ...

[36] Timos Sellis, Nick Roussopoulos, and Christos Faloutsos. The R+-tree: A dynamic index for

Integration of The Organization Engine and Library 2000 (1992)

Ron Weiss

In the contemporary research environment, users access and manipulate information gathered from diverse data sources. The Organization Engine is a prototype being developed at the Cambridge Research...

Bibliography (1973)

Jürgen Bohn, Aaa Ward Andy, Jones Alan, A New, Location Technique, Aac Harold Abelson, ...

citizen of Germany accepted on the recommendation of Prof. Dr. Friedemann Mattern, examiner Dr. Albrecht Schmidt, co-examiner

Directed evolution of a genetic circuit

Yokobayashi, Yohei, Weiss, Ron, Arnold, Frances H.

The construction of artificial networks of transcriptional control elements in living cells represents a new frontier for biological engineering. However, biological circuit engineers will have to...

Spatiotemporal control of gene expression with pulse-generating networks

Basu, Subhayu, Mehreja, Rishabh, Thiberge, Stephan, Chen, Ming-Tang, Weiss, Ron

One of the important challenges in the emerging field of synthetic biology is designing artificial networks that achieve coordinated behavior in cell communities. Here we present a synthetic...

Optimizing Genetic Circuits by Global Sensitivity Analysis

Feng, Xiao-jiang, Hooshangi, Sara, Chen, David, Li, Genyuan, Weiss, Ron, Rabitz, Herschel

Artificial genetic circuits are becoming important tools for controlling cellular behavior and studying molecular biosystems. To genetically optimize the properties of complex circuits in a...

Directed evolution of a genetic circuit

Yokobayashi, Yohei, Weiss, Ron, Arnold, Frances H.

The construction of artificial networks of transcriptional control elements in living cells represents a new frontier for biological engineering. However, biological circuit engineers will have to...

Spatiotemporal control of gene expression with pulse-generating networks

Basu, Subhayu, Mehreja, Rishabh, Thiberge, Stephan, Chen, Ming-Tang, Weiss, Ron

One of the important challenges in the emerging field of synthetic biology is designing artificial networks that achieve coordinated behavior in cell communities. Here we present a synthetic...

Ultrasensitivity and noise propagation in a synthetic transcriptional cascade

Hooshangi, Sara, Thiberge, Stephan, Weiss, Ron

The precise nature of information flow through a biological network, which is governed by factors such as response sensitivities and noise propagation, greatly affects the operation of biological...

Optimizing Genetic Circuits by Global Sensitivity Analysis

Feng, Xiao-jiang, Hooshangi, Sara, Chen, David, Li, Genyuan, Weiss, Ron, Rabitz, Herschel

Artificial genetic circuits are becoming important tools for controlling cellular behavior and studying molecular biosystems. To genetically optimize the properties of complex circuits in a...

Synthetic biology: new engineering rules for an emerging discipline

Andrianantoandro, Ernesto, Basu, Subhayu, Karig, David K, Weiss, Ron

Synthetic biologists engineer complex artificial biological systems to investigate natural biological phenomena and for a variety of applications. We outline the basic features of synthetic biology...

Engineered bidirectional communication mediates a consensus in a microbial biofilm consortium

Brenner, Katie, Karig, David K., Weiss, Ron, Arnold, Frances H.

Microbial consortia form when multiple species colocalize and communally generate a function that none is capable of alone. Consortia abound in nature, and their cooperative metabolic activities...

EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN OF GENETIC CIRCUITS AND CELL-CELL COMMUNICATIONS

YOHEI YOKOBAYASHI, CYNTHIA H. COLLINS, JARED R. LEADBETTER, FRANCES H. ARNOLD, RON WEISS

Synthetic genetic circuits are artificial networks of transcriptional control elements inserted into living cells in order to 'program' cellular behavior. We can extend this application to...

Engineered Communications for Microbial Robotics

Ron Weiss, Thomas F. Knight

. Multicellular organisms create complex patterned structures from identical, unreliable components. Learning how to engineer such robust behavior is important to both an improved understanding of...