As an example of one-quadrant converter a buck converter (also known as step-down converter)is presented in the picture below. The name of the step-down converter results from the arithmetic mean at the output side which is less than the arithmetic mean at the input

Lead-in Questions 1. Are you iron deficient 2. How would you know? a. tired b. have reduced ability to exercise. C. have poor stamina d. get frequent infections e. are lethargic

Leading-in Activities: Discussion 1. What's your definition of money? 2. What attitude should we take toward money? 3.What’ your fantasy?

Risk and Return Defining Risk and Return Using Probability Distributions to Measure Risk Attitudes Toward Risk Risk and Return in a Portfolio Context Diversification The Capital Asset Pricing Model(cM)

Term Loans and Leases Term Loans Provisions of Loan Agreements Equipment Financing Lease Financing Evaluating Lease Financing in Relation to Debt Financing

Using the Forest to See the Trees: Context-based Object Recognition Bill Freeman Joint work with Antonio Torralba and Kevin Murphy Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory MIT computer vision goal Recognize many different objects under many viewing conditions in unconstrained settings

Cognitive Robotics Outline Temporal Action Graph Walksat: Stochastic Local Search Better Neighbor Relaxed Plan A. Gerevini, A. Saetti, I. Serina \Planning through Stochastic Local Search and Temporal Action Graphs\, to appear in Journal of Artificial Intelligence

Outline Model-based programming The need for model-based reactive planning The Burton model-based reactive planner Artificial Intelligence Space Systems

Defining problem and model so| ution: Minimizing localization error Comb imize gain in explored map bined Information Utilities Integrated Adaptive Information-based Exploration Algorithm

Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Michael. Littman and Anthony R. Cassandra, \Planning and Acting in Partially Observable Stochastic Domains,\ Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 101, 1998. j. Pineau,g. Gordon&s. Thrun\Point-based- value iteration: An anytime algorithm for POMDPs\. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence(JCAI) Acapulco, Mexico. Aug