Nowadays, one practical limitation of deep neural networks (DNNs) is their high degree of specialization to a single task. This motivates researchers to develop algorithms that can adapt the DNN model to multiple tasks sequentially, while still performing well on past tasks. This process of gradually adapting the DNN model to learn from different...

­The study of human genetics is a rapidly expanding field, fueled in part by developments in large-scale protein and genomic sequencing technologies. Biopharmaceutical companies and modern healthcare rely heavily on sequencing technologies and the acquired data to develop new drugs and provide effective treatments to patients. However, the results...

­In the era of big data, min/max searching from bulk data arrays is one of the most important and widely used fundamental operations in data-intensive applications such as sorting, ranking, bioinformatics, data mining, graph processing, and route planning. Online news and social media require real-time ranking using fast min/max searching from...

Semiconductor lasers able to emit over the full visible color spectrum have a wide range of practical applications such as solid-state lighting, full-color displays, visible color communications, and multi-color fluorescence sensing. To the human eye, light with a mixture of four monochromatic lasers is visually equivalent to a white illuminant. Current...