Grant winners announced

Winners of the Inaugural IEEE RAS Start-Up Competition Announced [Industrial Activities]

Annual IT Awards Announced

This paper is based on the Shannon Lecture presented in August 2011, at ISIT2011, Saint Petersburg, Russia, and it presents a subjective overview of selected topics in Information Theory, Communications and Signal Processing taking an InformationEstimation perspective. We first review basic Information-Minimum Mean Square Error (IMMSE) relations and properties in Gaussian additive channels, and...

Dependence receptors: mechanisms of an announced death.

Dependence receptors form a family of functionally related receptors which are all able to induce two completely opposite intracellular signals depending on the availability of their ligand. Indeed, in its presence, they mediate a positive, classical signal transduction of survival, differentiation or migration but without it, they trigger a negative signal which leads to cell death. The molecu...

Will the announced influenza pandemic really happen?

We propose two simple probability models to compute the probability of an influenza pandemic. Under a random walk model the probability that all pandemics between times 0 and 300 occur by time 150 is 1/2. Under a Poisson model with mean interarrival time of 30 years the probability that no pandemic occurs during at least 60 years is 14%. These probabilities are much higher than generally percei...

Allowing repeat winners

Unbiased lotteries seem the least unfair and simplest procedures to allocate scarce indivisible resources to those with equal claims. But, when lotteries are repeated, it is not immediately obvious whether prior winners should be included or excluded. As in design questions surrounding single-shot lotteries, considerations of self-interest and distributive social preferences may interact. We in...