The initial vision of cellular communications was to deliver ubiquitous voice communications to anyone anywhere. In a simplified view, 1G delivered voice services for business customers, and only 2G for consumers. Next, this also initiated the appetite for cellular data, for which 3G was designed. However, Blackberry delivered business smartphones, and 4G ma...
The mission of our society is to support the open exchange of ideas in information theory. I am excited to write this inaugural President’s column for the IEEE Information Theory Society’s new BITS magazine. The concept of a magazine has been discussed in our society for many years, going back at least to 2015. It took the intense effort of [...]
The papers in this special issue focus on information processing in the arts and humanities. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of various sophisticated information processing tools — including some involving artificial intelligence — that are capable of interrogating increasingly complex datasets in order to tackle challenges arising in a wide range ...
Machine learning (ML), being now widely accessible to the research community at large, has fostered a proliferation of new and striking applications of these emergent mathematical techniques across a wide range of disciplines. In this article, we will focus on a particular case study: the field of paleoanthropology, which seeks to understand the evolution of...
I would first like to express my great sadness at the passing of Alex Vardy and Bob Lucky, also my appreciation for the way they both connected different communities.
