Method and system for reducing carbon emissions by recommending one or more alternative forms of transportation are disclosed. For example, the method includes collecting user data for a trip made by a user using a form of transportation between a first origination point and a first destination point, determining an amount of carbon emissions generated by the trip based upon the user data related to the form of transportation, determining one or more alternative forms of transportation between the first origination point and first destination point, determining a composite score associated with each alternative form of transportation, the composite score representing a likelihood of acceptance of the respective alternative form of transportation by the user, and selecting a recommended alternative form of transportation from the one or more alternative forms of transportation based at least in part on the composite score associated with each alternative form of transportation.

Method and system for offering carbon offset rewards corresponding to users. For example, the method includes detecting actions attributable to a user, determining a level of mindful driving and additional characteristics of the user based upon the attributable actions, determining the user's quality based upon the level of mindful driving and additional characteristics, determining a level of carbon offset reward based upon the user's quality, and offering an amount of carbon offset reward to the user based upon the level of carbon offset reward, where the amount of carbon offset reward includes a first amount for planting a first set of trees at a first time and a second amount for planting a second set of trees at a second time with the first time preceding the second time by a time duration that is shorter than or equal to the lifespan of each of the first set of trees.

Method and system for providing renewing carbon offsets for a driving period of a user. For example, the method includes collecting driving data for vehicle trips made by the user, analyzing the driving data to determine a level of mindful driving, determining a level of carbon offset reward based upon the level of mindful driving, determining the driving period of the user, determining an amount of total carbon emission of the user for the driving period, and providing an amount of carbon offset reward based upon the level of carbon offset reward and the amount of total carbon emission, where the amount of carbon offset reward includes a first amount for planting a first set of trees at a first time and a second amount for planting a second set of trees at a second time with the second time following the first time by one or more years.

Method and system for generating a personalized landing page for a user are disclosed. For example, the method includes receiving, by a computing device, one or more user data associated with the user, the one or more user data including one or more telematics data of the user, determining, by the computing device, one or more user interface features based at least in part upon the one or more user data, and generating, by the computing device, a personalized landing page customized for the user using the one or more user interface features to increase an effectiveness of the personalized landing page.

Method and system for validating planting of trees. For example, the method includes receiving a first image depicting a tree, receiving a second image depicting an environment where the tree is to be planted, receiving a third image depicting the tree having been planted in the environment, selecting and encoding a first patch of the first image that depicts the tree, selecting and encoding a second patch of the second image that depicts the environment, selecting and encoding a third patch of the third image that depicts both the tree and the environment, and comparing the encoded patches to determine whether the tree has been planted in the environment.

Method and system for determining a historical amount of carbon emissions produced by a vehicle of a driver are disclosed. For example, the method includes receiving, by the computing device, a vehicle information including a number of miles that the driver has driven the vehicle during a first time duration, collecting, by the computing device, telematics data for one or more trips made by the driver with the vehicle during a second time duration, and determining, by the computing device, the historical amount of carbon emissions produced by the vehicle during the first time duration based at least in part upon the number of miles during the first time duration and the telematics data during the second time duration.

The Ising model calculation device selects a solution having a consistent quality from among solutions obtained through the calculations with the evaluation index of a calculation accuracy. A coupling coefficient obtained by combining the Ising model coupling coefficient corresponding to a problem for which a solution should be calculated with the Ising model coupling coefficient corresponding to the check problem is set as a coupling coefficient used to calculate the interaction. With regard to a calculation value corresponding to the check spin among the calculation values using a plurality of light pulses, the compatibility as the solution of the check problem is judged. When the judgement result shows the compatibility as the solution of the check problem, a calculation value other than the calculation values corresponding to the check spin among the resultant calculation values is outputted as a solution to the problem for which a solution should be calculated.

The disclosed embodiments relate to a nanophotonic computing system, which comprises a set of nanophotonic computing elements and an optical interconnect that interconnects the set of nanophotonic computing elements. The optical interconnect includes one or more nanophotonic synaptic interconnect devices (NSIDs), which provide unitary and all-to-all interconnects between NSID inputs and NSID outputs, wherein each NSID comprises free-space propagation regions connected by an array of waveguides to facilitate routing different wavelengths. These waveguides include phase modulators for varying optical lengths of the waveguides, wherein varying the optical lengths of the waveguides facilitates adjusting weights on interconnections through the NSID in a lossless manner.

A light-based apparatus has an input device, accepting two or more numerical inputs and an output command. It has a logic unit that receives the two numerical inputs from the input device, and is adapted to combine various lights, in amplitudes based on the respective values of the numerical inputs, to produce an output light sum representing a sum of the two numerical inputs. The logic unit also has an output sensing circuit to sense the output light sum. The logic unit is responsive to the output command to output a value representing the output light sum. The device uses a computing method that includes comingling light from multiple sources, at the same time, in a light containment area to provide comingled light. The method includes using light amplitude sensing circuitry to sense an amplitude of the comingled light, outputting an arithmetic sum, based on the amplitude of the comingled light, without using a binary computer to compute the arithmetic sum.

A system includes a computational system to receive a design of an integrated computational element (ICE) including specification of substrate and layers. Additionally, the system includes a deposition source to provide a deposition plume having a plume spatial profile, and a support having a cylindrical surface. The cylindrical surface of the support is spaced apart from the deposition source and has a shape that corresponds to the plume spatial profile in a particular cross-section orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the cylindrical surface of the support, such that, when the substrate support, with the supported instances of the substrate distributed over the cylindrical surface of the substrate support, is translated relative to the deposition plume along the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical surface of the substrate support, thicknesses of instances of each of the deposited layers are substantially uniform across the plurality of instances of the ICE.