1987 Non-Destructive Evaluation of Bridge Decks

System for non-destructive evaluation of bridge decks

Development of the initial computer architecture for an expert system for Non-Destructive Evaluation of Bridge Decks. Algorithms for pattern analysis of signals from ground-penetrating radar which provided features of deterioration, were incorporated into the system.

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1981-1982 Tadoma Research

Tadoma research for facilitating communication among deaf-blind individuals

In deaf-blind individuals, an amazing form of tactile communication takes place where the hand is used to sense up to 7 different signals. Shiva was fortunate to do research at the MIT Speech Lab data gathering and analysis of speech phonemes.

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