Dr. Sethuraman "Panch" Panchanathan
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In June, 2020, Sethuraman “Panch” Panchanathan was appointed by U.S. President Donald Trump as Director of the National Science Foundation. Panch previously spent more than 20 years in leadership positions at Arizona State University, including service as Executive Vice President of ASU’s Knowledge Enterprise and Chief Research and Technology Officer for ASU. He is officially on an extended leave of absence from the university as he devotes his time to advancing the U.S. science and technology agenda on a national and global scale.
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In literature, such as novels, an elaborate account of a scene, in terms of the location, ambience, and presence of characters, is presented prior or during the conversation of those characters in the scene. In movies, similar information is portrayed, but through the…
Smart Homes are equipped with several sensors and one set of useful sensors are activation sensors that give out On/Off information as and when a resident passes by. The frequency with which these sensors may get fired depends on the activity of the smart home resident.…
Individuals with cognitive, developmental and learning disabilities – in particular, Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) - have a significant social communication impairment, a situation that can often lead to social isolation. Reducing the need for formal care services for…
FacePix is a face image database created at the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC) at Arizona State University, and made available free of charge to the worldwide research community. In the first version of the FacePix database, called FacePix(30), there…
The Tabletop Interaction Assistant, part of the larger Social Interaction Assistant research project, consists of a webcam on a pan-tilt mechanism used to track human faces, regardless of whether the person is directly facing the camera. Additionally, the video collected…