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Distinguished Lecturers should not be vetoed by the US

Distinguished 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 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 the particular DL nominee does not appear in the public record. Why can IEEE deny the selection of a DL? In part, there are requirements for DLs now: DL should visit IT Society local chapters. DL program pays for airfare and travel. Local chapter pays for local...

July 8, 2019
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Teaching students to stay away from Physiognomic AI

Teaching 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 next semester (Detection and Estimation Theory). “The inferential statistical methods on which machine learning is based, while useful in many contexts, fail when applied to extrapolating subjective human characteristics from physical features and even patterns of behavior, just as phrenology and physiognomy did.” From the (mathematical) communication theory context in which I teach these...

December 20, 2021
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Why use the LMS for linear systems?

Why 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) Canvas. Even the term LMS has some weird connotations: is it a management system for learning or a system for managing learning? A system for students to (barely) manage to learn? Canvas in particular seems terrible for things math-related (one semester the entire LaTeX rendering engine crashed with no notice) or engineering-related, and in general the whole question management system is garbage....

September 1, 2022
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