a process whose average over time converges to the true average
I ve been thinking about reviving the blog and as maybe a way of easing back in I ve come up with some short post ideas. As usual, these are a bit half-baked, so YMMV. A common way of generating a hook in a technical talk is to say actually, this is really an old idea. There [ ]
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) Canvas. Even the term LMS has some weird connotations: is it a management system for learning or a system for managing learning? [ ]
This fall I am teaching for the n-th time our introductory signals and systems course (ECE 345). This time I m teaching all of the students (at the time of writing, 206 of them): prior offerings split the class into two sections taught by different faculty and in the last two years of COVID-induced remote instruction [ ]
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 next semester (Detection and Estimation Theory).
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 doctrine were expected to prepare their course materials through prescribed rituals and incantations. When preparing the course, problems for homeworks and quizzes [ ]
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 Lecturer (DL) program. The presentation said that IEEE denied the selection of a DL based in Iran due to U.S. sanction. The name of [ ]
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 reviewers, identifying what we think are likely rejects in the batch of papers we are handling, and so on. It s a little [ ]
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 harm that a user could suffer from participating in a differentially private data analysis, but is also flexible enough to allow for a wide variety of data analyses to be performed [ ]
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, France for IEEE SPAWC 2019. Having a paper at the workshop is not a prerequisite for these grants and a number of [ ]
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 them submitted code. For a paper with a theorem, the experiments can range from sanity checks to a detailed [ ]