Browsing Engineering (Faculty of) by Subject "memory"
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Chalcogenide and metal-oxide memristive devices for advanced neuromorphic computing
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-27)Energy-intensive artificial intelligence (AI) is prevailing and changing the world, which requires energy-efficient computing technology. However, traditional AI driven by von Neumann computing systems suffers from the ... -
Death and Memory: A Memorial and Museum for Euromaidan
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-24)Memorials are a way of mending hardship through the commemoration of past events. They are a physical manifestation and expression of events, used as a way to come to terms ends. They also create an opportunity for ... -
A Home Then, A Home Now
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-29)This thesis explores how Hong Kong Canadians remember, inhabit, and imagine their homes to develop a process for positioning transnational belonging within the built environment. In response to discriminatory migration and ... -
House of Reconciliation
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-23)The signing of the Ta'if Agreement on October 22, 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the divisive and destructive Lebanese Civil War that had raged since 1975. The war was finally ended in March 1991, when the new ... -
I Just Want to Take Pictures
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-30)Life is to be lived, savoured and engaged. Photography gives us permission to do that – to stop and simply look at something. As we hurry on with our day, it says, “Wait - over there! Look at that! Look how great that ... -
IF STONES COULD SPEAK Destruction, Preservation and Memory the case in Kosovo and Metohija
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-22)According to the International Center for Transitional Justice, 145 known churches and monasteries in the autonomous province of Kosovo and Metohija(KosMet)* were partially or completely damaged after the Kumanovo Agreement ... -
An Integrated Model of Contex, Short-Term, and Long-Term Memory
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-27)I present the context-unified encoding (CUE) model, a large-scale spiking neural network model of human memory. It combines and integrates activity-based short-term memory with weight-based long-term memory. The ... -
Jiazhai: In Search of My Mother's Childhood House
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-15)The concept of home has become increasingly complex and challenging to defi ne in modern times, as traditional notions of home are being challenged by diverse family structures, globalization and mobility, economic instability, ... -
Learning and Leveraging Neural Memories
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-26)Learning in the Neural Engineering Framework (NEF) and the Semantic Pointer Architecture (SPA) has been recently extended beyond the supervised Prescribed Error Sensitivity (PES) to include the unsupervised Vector Oja ... -
Mapping the City: Narratives of Memory and Place
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-10)How do we discover a new place and begin to get acquainted with it? In Canadian cities, the sense of place can be difficult to grasp. The relative youth of the built form of our cities and a constant influx of new people ... -
Museum of Contemporary Art Gateway Sculpture Garden
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-20)This thesis comprises a design for a garden that serves as a gateway to the new cultural hub of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in the Junction Triangle, Toronto. This contribution aims to capitalize on the cultural ... -
Navigating Loss
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-08)This thesis explores the realm of death and loss through architecture. I question how architecture can facilitate a healing process beyond customary spaces like a cemetery, memorial, or temple, and how the raw emotions ... -
Necessary Fiction
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-03)While documenting the Old Spitalfields Market in London, UK prior to its renovation in 2006, I happened across a simple yet provocative statement- 'this will all be fields again'- inscribed into the existing pavement in ... -
Our Grand Domestic Revolution: (Re-)making home from Jaffna, Sri Lanka to the Greater Toronto Area
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-21)Displacement is seemingly irreconcilable with the grounding quality of domestic space; however, the practice of housework and homemaking allows forcibly displaced people to reconstruct home elsewhere. Centring the context ... -
RGLock: Recoverable Mutual Exclusion for Non-Volatile Main Memory Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-17)Mutex locks have traditionally been the most popular concurrent programming mechanisms for inter-process synchronization in the rapidly advancing field of concurrent computing systems that support high-performance applications. ... -
Sprezzatura
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-18)This is a catalogue of seductive experiences in architecture. Seductive building creates enrichment and invitation for exploration. In my experience working with architectural design, many projects lack choreography. This ... -
Struck-at Fault Tolerance with Emerging Technology RAM in the NeuroSim MLP Neural Network System
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-15)After decades of technology advancements, benefits from conventional dimensional scaling and effective scaling such as strain and high-k gate dielectrics are diminishing. In the post-Moore era, interests gathers around ... -
Tracings: Unraveling Home in the Diaspora
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-28)Tracings: Unraveling Home in the Diaspora presents works that contemplate the notion of home, post-migration. Inspired by my family’s journey from the Middle-East to Canada, the thesis examines ways in which the juxtaposition ... -
Within These Walls
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-22)The Cork Good Shepherd Magdalen Asylum opened in the summer of 1872, and was abandoned in 1994. The number of women who passed through its walls remains unknown. Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries, a system of religious-run ...