Preparations for the new Adaptive Optics Facility in UT4.

; High-Contrast Coronographic Imager for Adaptive Optics ( HiCIAO ): Infrared camera for hunting planets around other stars.

In the summer of 2010, the " First Light Adaptive Optics " ( FLAO )-an adaptive optics system with a deformable secondary mirror rather than correcting atmospheric distortion further downstream in the optics-was inaugurated.

; NIRC-2: The second generation Near Infrared Camera works with the Keck Adaptive Optics system to produce the highest-resolution ground-based images and spectroscopy in the 1 – 5 micrometers ( µm ) range.

Commissioning should be completed by the end of 2011, when it will join Keck II to perform Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics.

Other groups include the Center for Astronomical Adaptive Optics ( CAAO ), the Imaging Technology Laboratory ( ITL ), the Steward Observatory Radio Astronomy Laboratory ( SORAL ), and the Astrochemistry / Spectroscopy Laboratory.

* GPI ( Gemini Planet Imager ), built by a consortium of US and Canadian institutions to fulfil the requirements of the ExAOC Extreme Adaptive Optics Coronagraph proposal.

He led the team that designed and constructed the Adaptive Optics Coronagraph, which led to the discovery of the first cool brown dwarf orbiting a nearby star.

In 2007 astronomers at Caltech and the University of Cambridge announced the first results from a new hybrid Lucky Imaging and Adaptive Optics ( AO ) system.

* Adaptive Optics System Reveals New Asteroidal Satellite ( SpaceDaily. com, March 2001 ) Includes a discovery image.

It presented one of the first Adaptive Optics system available to the astronomical community, ADONIS: ADaptive Optics Near Infrared System in the 1980s.

ADONIS is the final version of diverse Adaptive Optics ( AO ) prototypes named Come-on and Come-on +.

* Orbits of Binary Asteroids with Adaptive Optics ( VLT images )

* Orbits of Binary Asteroids with Adaptive Optics ( VLT images )

* NAOS ( Nasmyth Adaptive Optics System ) is a system of adaptive optics used to correct atmospheric distortions of astronomical images.

This latest incarnation did away with the silicon pods and TPU rubber fins of the Laser III, and introduced ' strips ' of hard rubber to the forefoot which shift and bend with the movements of the foot-with Nike coining the name ' Adaptive Shield ' for this new technology.

Donald Johanson, who discovered the 3. 18 million year old fossil hominid Lucy ( Australopithecus ) in Ethiopia, is also a professor at ASU, as well as George Poste, Chief Scientist for the Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative.

* The Adaptive Execution Office ( AEO ) is one of two new DARPA offices created in 2009 by the previous DARPA Director, Regina Dugan.

* Adaptive ( i. e., efficient ) for data sets that are already substantially sorted: the time complexity is O ( n + d ), where d is the number of inversions

Adaptive models dynamically update the model as the data is compressed.

Adaptive controllers encompass not only the decision-making rules, but also the psychophysiological inference that is implicit in the quantification of those trigger points used to activate the rules.

Adaptive rowing is a special category of races for those with physical disabilities.

Adaptive predictive coding ( APC ) is a narrowband analog-to-digital conversion that uses a one-level or multilevel sampling system in which the value of the signal at each sampling instant is predicted according to a linear function of the past values of the quantized signals.

Adaptive delta modulation ( ADM ) or continuously variable slope delta modulation ( CVSD ) is a modification of DM in which the step size is not fixed.

Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding ( ATRAC ) is a family of proprietary audio compression algorithms developed by Sony.

Adaptive optimization is a complementary technique in which the interpreter profiles the running program and compiles its most frequently executed parts into native code.

A way of modelling a Complex Adaptive System One of Hayek's main contributions to early complexity theory is his distinction between the human capacity to predict the behaviour of simple systems and its capacity to predict the behaviour of complex systems through modeling.

The NASA version is the X-53 Active Aeroelastic Wing while the United States Air Force tested the Adaptive Compliant Wing.

However, Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding 3, or ATRAC3, is a separate format developed by Sony )

He is a pioneer of Latent semantic analysis, Professor Furnas is also considered a pioneer in the concept of Mosaic of Responsive Adaptive Systems ( MoRAS ).

Freund and Schapire's arcing ( Adaptive Resampling and Combining ), as a general technique, is more or less synonymous with boosting.

Muffy Davis is also a founding and honorary board member of Sun Valley Adaptive Sports.

There is also an available performance package on the new SHO, which deletes non-essential options such as Power Sunroof, Heated / Cooled Seats, Multi-Contour Seats, Auto-Sensing Lights and Wipers, Adaptive Cruise Control, Adjustable Pedals, Blind Spot Information System ( BLIS ), and Satellite Navigation.

New on the Golf, is the optional Volkswagen Adaptive Chassis Control ( not available in the North American market ), which allows the driver to select between ' normal ', ' comfort ' and ' sports ' modes, which will vary the suspension, steering and accelerator behavior accordingly.

* 1998: SQL Anywhere 6 is released, with new names " Adaptive Server Anywhere " as the engine and part of the " SQL Anywhere Studio " which now includes SQL Modeler ( later PowerDesigner ), Java is introduced to the database.

Adaptive optics ( AO ) is a technology used to improve the performance of optical systems by reducing the effect of wavefront distortions.

Other prominent conjoint analysis pioneers include professor V. “ Seenu ” Srinivasan of Stanford University who developed a linear programming ( LINMAP ) procedure for rank ordered data as well as a self-explicated approach, Richard Johnson ( founder of Sawtooth Software ) who developed the Adaptive Conjoint Analysis technique in the 1980s and Jordan Louviere ( University of Iowa ) who invented and developed Choice-based approaches to conjoint analysis and related techniques such as MaxDiff.

Adaptive Huffman coding ( also called Dynamic Huffman coding ) is an adaptive coding technique based on Huffman coding.

* Adaptive delta modulation, a digital-analog data conversion technique

* Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation ( ADPCM ), former ITU-T G. 721, 32 kbit / s used in STE secure telephone

LIDAR has been used in Adaptive Cruise Control ( ACC ) systems for automobiles.

* Adaptive dictionary algorithms such as LZW – used in GIF and TIFF

Adaptive Frequency-hopping spread spectrum ( AFH ) ( as used in Bluetooth ) improves resistance to radio frequency interference by avoiding using crowded frequencies in the hopping sequence.

Adaptive algorithms are often used to automatically tune these notch filters.

* Adaptive Internet Protocol, a protocol used by Sun Secure Global Desktop

Most of the early vendors of license free fixed wireless equipment such as Adaptive Broadband ( Axxcelera ), Trango Broadband, Motorola ( Orthogon ), Proxim Networks, RedLine and BreezeCom ( Alvarion ) used proprietary protocols and hardware, creating pressure on the industry to adopt a standard for unlicensed fixed wireless.

* Adaptive mesh refinement, a method of adaptive meshing used in numerical analysis

To compensate, Philips used an audio compression codec based upon MPEG-1 Audio Layer I ( MP1 ) and termed PASC ( Precision Adaptive Sub-band Coding ).

The Adaptive Communication Environment ( often referred to as ACE ) is an open-source framework used to simplify various aspects of network programming.

Adaptive staircase procedures can be used such that the points sampled are clustered around the psychometric threshold.

Adaptive image coding is currently being used by the Cassini-Huygens craft to relay images from Saturn.

For camera based images, " Motion Adaptive Color-Plus " ( MACP ) is used based on movement.

The process of Adaptive Management will be used to guide the renewal and care of Point Pleasant, one of Canada's oldest urban parks.

The speech codecs used in GSM are called Half-Rate ( HR ), Full-Rate ( FR ), Enhanced Full-Rate ( EFR ) and Adaptive Multirate ( AMR ).

Adaptive management is a tool which should be used not only to change a system, but also to learn about the system ( Holling 1978 ).

Adaptive beamforming is used to detect and estimate the signal-of-interest at the output of a sensor array by means of optimal ( e. g., least-squares ) spatial filtering and interference rejection.

Adaptive behavior is a type of behavior that is used to adjust to another type of behavior or situation.

Adaptive systems are used for paper-and-pen insertions, such as using the reverse side of the preceding page in a spiral notebook to make insertions.

A Shack Hartmann wavefront sensor ( commonly used in Adaptive optics ).

Tessella specialises in the development of Adaptive Clinical Trials systems, used to shorten the time and patients needed to test new drugs.

Adaptive Control is the control method used by a controller which must adapt to a controlled system with parameters which vary, or are initially uncertain.