Photonic microcavity and nanocavity devices with quantum dot active materials combine the strong confinement of photons and the discrete states of electronic carriers. They are promising candidates for small-footprint, high-speed and low-power active optical components, and provide a robust platform for the enhancement of light-matter interactions....

The LEGO MINDSTORMS™ toolkit can be used to help students learn basic programming and engineering concepts. The ROBOLAB™ software is widely used to program LEGO MINDSTORMS robotics in its icon-based programming environment. However, this software does not provide debug features for LEGO MINDSTORMS programs....

Support Vector Machines: Optimization Based Theory, Algorithms, and Extensions presents an accessible treatment of the two main components of support vector machines (SVMs)a??classification problems and regression problems....