gender inclusivity in communication models
I submitted a paper to ISIT in which I tried something different. It’s about communication models with a jammer, so there are three parties: Alice, Bob, and the jammer. Alice wants to send a message...
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I’m on sabbatical now, which ostensibly means having a bit more time to read things (technical and not). I’m not exactly burning through books but 2019 has already had a few good ones. Convenience...
View ArticleICML 2019 encouraged code submission. That is great!
ICML 2019 had an optional code submission for papers. As an area chair, I handled a mix of papers, some more theoretical than others, but almost all of them had some empirical validation. Not all of...
View ArticleSignal boost: travel grants for SPAWC 2019
Passing a message along for my colleague Waheed Bajwa: As the US Liaison Chair of IEEE SPAWC 2019, I have received NSF funds to support travel of undergraduate and/or graduate students to Cannes,...
View ArticleCFP: Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy (TPDP) 2019
November 11London, UKColocated with CCS 2019 Differential privacy is a promising approach to privacy-preserving data analysis. Differential privacy provides strong worst-case guarantees about the...
View ArticleThat review is so… meta
Reviewing has started for NeurIPS 2019 and this time around I am an area chair (AC). We’ve been given a lot of instructions and some tasks: bidding on papers, bidding on reviewers, adjusting...
View ArticleDistinguished Lecturers should not be vetoed by the US
I attended the IEEE Information Theory Society (ITSOC) Board of Governors meeting at ISIT in Paris this week and found something gnawing at me afterwards from the presentation about the Distinguished...
View ArticleA story about Canvas
One upon a time, there was a University whose administration was enthralled by a religion called Canvas. The central tenets of Canvas were held in the highest esteem and those who followed Canvasitic...
View ArticleTeaching students to stay away from Physiognomic AI
I read Luke Stark and Jevan Hutson‘s Physiognomic AI paper last night and it’s sparked some thinking about additional reading I could add to my graduate course on statistical theory for engineering...
View ArticleWhy use the LMS for linear systems?
It’s been a bit of a whirlwind since the last post but I made my course website and “published” it. Rutgers has basically forced all courses into their preferred “Learning Management System” (LMS)...
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