Michal Friedman

About

Michal Friedman is the Jack Buncher Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, where she is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of History. She specializes in Jewish Diasporic history, particularly that of Sephardi and Spanish-speaking Jewish communities, as well as Spanish history and culture. Her research and teaching focus on the history of ethnic and religious minorities in Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas, along with concepts of diaspora and nationhood. Born in Israel and raised in Tel Aviv and New York City, Friedman completed her university studies in the US and Spain, earning her Ph.D. in Jewish history at Columbia University. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and at The Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford. Her scholarly work includes a book manuscript based on her doctoral dissertation, which examines efforts to recover the Jewish past and the legacy of Sefarad in modern Spain, exploring how this history was used in various ideological contexts. Friedman has contributed to numerous publications, edited collections, and is a co-founder of the interdisciplinary group Genealogies of Sepharad. She has also established collaborations with the Centropa Archive, a digitized collection of interviews and photographs of Jews in Eastern and Central Europe after the Holocaust.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• World Wide Web
• Software engineering
• Human–computer interaction
• Multimedia
• Programming language

Selected publications

• Control system of Self-Mobile Space Manipulator

  2003-01-02 · 28 citations

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  Self-Mobile Space Manipulator (SM/sup 2/) is a simple, 5-DOF (degree-of-freedom), 1/3-scale, laboratory version of a robot designed to walk on the trusswork and other exterior surfaces of Space Station Freedom. It will be capable of routine tasks such as inspection, parts transportation, and simple maintenance procedures. The authors have designed and built the robot and gravity compensation system to permit simulated zero-gravity experiments. They have developed the control system for the SM/su…

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• The servo-control system for an omnidirectional mobile robot

  2003-01-07 · 16 citations

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  The authors describe the design and implementation of a motor drive control system for an omnidirectional wheelbase, the Ilonator platform, developed at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. The experimental mobile platform is mounted on four omnidirectional wheels which permit a full three degrees of freedom (3 DOF) in the plane. The distributed servo-control system is coordinated by onboard computer which converts 3-DOF acceleration commands into individual velocity commands fo…

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• Development of a 5-DOF walking robot for Space Station application: overview

  2002-12-04 · 13 citations

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  An overview of the development of a robot walker for use on the NASA Space Station is presented. The robot is designed to perform such tasks as inspection, transport of parts, and simple manipulation. The robot hardware and grippers, the real-time control hardware and software for precise, stable control of the highly flexible, three-dimensional robot, and a gravity compensation system are discussed

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• A testbed for measurement of human arm impedance parameters

  2002-12-04 · 6 citations

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  The development of an experimental testbed for the investigation of human arm impedance is described. A two-degree-of-freedom SCARA-configuration robotic arm with an endpoint force sensor has been developed for measuring parameters such as postural viscosity and dynamic stiffness and viscosity. The measurement device is used in disturbance tests to determine the degree and nature of impedance tuning during various tasks

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• Windows NT Page Replacement Policies.

  Int. CMG Conference · 1999-01-01 · 6 citations

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  The Microsoft Windows NT operating system supports virtual memory on a variety of hardware platforms, the most common being the Intel IA-32 architecture. This paper provides an overview of Windows NT virtual memory management, with a particular emphasis on the hardware-independent mechansim it uses for page replacement.

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Frequent coauthors

• Takeo Kanade

  5 shared

• H.B. Brown

  3 shared

• Mark Nagurka

  Marquette University

  3 shared

• John M. Dolan

  2 shared

• Bruce H. Krogh

  Carnegie Mellon University

  2 shared

• Hal Abelson

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  2 shared

• Yusheng Xu

  Collaborative Innovation Centre for Advanced Ship and Deep-Sea Exploration

  1 shared

• Evan W. Patton

  1 shared

Labs

• Friedman LabPI

Education

• Ph.D., Jewish history

  Columbia University

  2012

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