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Treemap 3.0
Published Sunday, June 24, 2001Treemaps are a space-filling visualization for hierarchical structures that are extremely effective in showing attributes of leaf nodes by size and color coding. Treemaps enable users to compare sizes of nodes and of sub-trees and are especially strong in spotting unusual patterns.The Treemap visualization technique, developed by Ben...
Categories: Information Technology
Keyword(s): visualization utility, human computer interaction software
Docket: IS-2001-051
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PhotoMesa: A Zoomable Image Browser
Published Monday, September 17, 2001PhotoMesa is a zoomable image browser. It allows the user to view multiple directories of images in a zoomable environment, and uses a set of simple navigation mechanisms to move through the space of images. It also supports grouping of images by metadata available from the file system. It requires only a set of images on disk, and does not...
Categories: Information Technology
Keyword(s): photo management, photographs, organization, disks, images
Docket: IS-2001-053
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High-Throughput Thin Film Fabrication Vacuum Flange
Published Thursday, September 20, 2001In high-throughput thin film experimentation, otherwise known as the combinatorial approach to thin film materials, a large number of samples with different compositions are fabricated together on an individual chip. Such chips/wafers/substrates are called combinatorial libraries. Alternatively, one may choose to make a sample where the...
Categories: Industrial Processing
Keyword(s): vacuum, flange, combinatorial chemsitry, thin film fabrication
Docket: PS-2001-061
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Interactive Query System for Reading Patterns in Time Series Data
Published Wednesday, September 26, 2001For tasks involving retrieval of information from large data sets, query formulation is a crucial step in the process. Insufficiently precise queries often lead to empty result sets (zero-hit queries') or large result sets with potentially irrelevant results. This problem is particularly troublesome in data mining applications where query...
Categories: Information Technology
Keyword(s): data sets, visualization, interactive, queries
Docket: IS-2001-071
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Photolithographic Solid-Phase Polymer Synthesis
Published Monday, October 15, 2001This invention provides an ordered method of forming a plurality of polymer sequences on a porous silica substrate by sequential addition of reagents. The method is accomplished by serially protecting and deprotecting portions of the polymer sequences for addition of other portions of the polymer sequences. Thus one activates and deactivates a...
Categories: Biomaterials, Chemical
Keyword(s): polymer
Docket: LS-2001-015
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A Novel Method for Identification of Microorganisms/Cells
Published Tuesday, October 16, 2001Researchers on campus have developed a rapid method for identification of microorganisms. The method involves comparing the mass spectrum of a set or mixture of unknown proteins against publicly available database protein collections assembled from known organisms. Molecular mass is used for comparisons and hence only pico molar amounts of sample...
Categories: Genomics/Proteomics/Database
Keyword(s): protein, mass spectrometry, homeland
Docket: LS-98-089
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Graphical Interface for Digital Libraries (GRIDL)
Published Sunday, October 28, 2001Digital library search results are usually shown as a textual list, with 10-20 items per page. Viewing several thousand search results at once on a two-dimensional display with continuous variables is a promising alternative. Since these displays can overwhelm some users, researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park created a simplified...
Categories: Information Technology
Keyword(s): digital libraries, graphical user interfaces, hieraxes, information visualization
Docket: IS-2001-005
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Controlled Room Temperature Synthesis of Transparent Ferromagnetic Co3 O4 Nanoclusters
Published Monday, December 10, 2001Magnetic nanoparticles are of great interest because they can be used in improved high-density information storage devices, in ferrofluids for biomedical applications and in magnetic sensors.Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a new technology that allows self-assembled magnetic metal oxides Co3O4 nanoparticles...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials
Keyword(s): nanoparticles, nanoclusters, Co3O4, ferromagnetic, thin film, ultra high-density magnetic recording media
Docket: PS-2001-059
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Controlled Room Temperature Synthesis of Magnetic CoFe2O4 Nanoclusters Through a Block Copolymer Nanoreactor Route
Published Monday, December 10, 2001Magnetic nanoparticles are of great interest because they can be used in improved high-density information storage devices, in ferrofluids for biomedical applications and in magnetic sensors.Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a new technology that allows self assembled magnetic CoFe2O4 nanoparticles within a diblock...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials
Keyword(s): nanoparticles, nanoclusters, self-assembling, CoFe2O4, ultra-high density magnetic data storage, 525
Docket: PS-2001-060
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Flat Thin, Orientation Independent Thermosyphon Heat Spreader
Published Wednesday, January 30, 2002Current technology for cooling electronics in thin space enclosures such as portables, involves metal plates to spread heat. Very high effective thermal conductivity can be achieved by employing liquid-vapor phase change to transport heat from the evaporator to the condenser. This concept can be exploited to create thin thermal spreader plates...
Categories: Industrial Processing
Keyword(s): cooling electronics, two-phase flow, phase-change thermosyphon system, micromachined porous surfaces
Docket: PS-2000-055