Lucky 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...

Lucky Factors

We propose a new method to select amongst a large group of candidate factors — many of which might arise as a result of data mining — that purport to explain the cross-section of expected returns. The method is robust to general distributional characteristics of both factor and asset returns. We allow for the possibility of time-series as well as cross-sectional dependence. The technique accomm...

A Lucky Wound

an absolute bull's-eye through the face and out at the back of the neck, and was inflicted by a rifle bullet. He was not rendered unconscious, and was seen only shortly after, by the regimental doctor, Lieutenant Baker, i.m.s. He was transferred the same day to the ambulance, where a detailed examination was made, which has led to the report. There was a small entrance wound just beneath the br...

BioCode: Third time lucky?

Fifteen year ago a draft BioCode was presented to the taxonomic community (Greuter et al. 1996). There is now a new version, published in Taxon (Greuter et al. 2011) and available online on the International Committee on Biological Nomenclature website as well as that of the International Commision for Zoological Nomenclature. Has the BioCode matured since it was last put forward? Was it ahead ...