A longstanding grand-challenge problem in AI is to build machines that are able to think and interact like humans do. A specific embodiment of this problem is a generalization of the cocktail party problem encountered in signal processing and blind signal separation: If...

This dissertation investigates the thirty-seven entries in the Descripci�n Geogr�fico-Moral de la Di�cesis de Goathemala (DGM) that correspond to present-day El Salvador and the R�o Lempa basin. Each of these entries is a description of a parish in the diocese and inclu...

This Master’s thesis is based on a web-based multimedia project titled, “Soundscapes of Pandemia,” created during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic and global Black Lives Matter uprisings. A question guiding the design of this multimedia project that this Master’s thesis co...

This dissertation traces Black AIDS Activism in the Bay Area and how the layered crises of the crack cocaine epidemic, chronic joblessness, and poverty shaped HIV/AIDS prevention and education efforts. It also compares Black health activism with ways policymakers, local...

In the United States Southwest in the early 1960s, an academic lineage began utilizing the techniques of paleomagnetism and geomagnetism for applications in archaeology. However, most of the research was conducted with an enterprise mindset, resulting in few published d...

This dissertation investigates modernist artists and designers as they used the functional craft of woodworking to enact value for marginalized working bodies. Art historians have acknowledged self-conscious labor within modernism, mapping the ways in which work can sig...

Contemporary Black political discourse has recently engaged several differentpropositions and models seeking to actualize reparations for chattel slavery in the United States as a major political project. On September 30, 2021, the state of California established the Ta...

This dissertation examines the Ottoman Empire's transregional role in global developments in the Mediterranean and Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It emphasizes the importance of Ottoman Libya, its coastlines and hinterland, as a critical territo...

AbstractWinter 2022 Community Development Natasha L. Simpson - 998566180 “Worthy of Sustenance”: Disability and Food Justice Encouraged by the work of food justice organizations in addressing structural inequities, this thesis names how ableism is also a structural fact...

\begin{abstract}How can we recognize users' cognition and identify behaviors in an online discussion forum? We see that online discussion forums constitute an untapped opportunity for understanding cognitional and behavioral information. Mining this publicly and freely ...