This is an annual column that recognizes IEEE- and IEEE society-level awards given to the members of our community. This contains a brief description of the awards while more details are featured in the Newsletter. We congratulate all [...]
This is the first of a series of interviews, named Friends in Comment, where I share conversations with friends and colleagues in areas related to ours. This first interview is with Regina Barzilay. Regina is currently [...]
In this article, we commemorate Joy Thomas, who sadly passed away in 2020. Joy is best known for his seminal textbook Elements of Information Theory, coauthored with his Ph.D. advisor the late Thomas Cover. We also catalog some of Joy’s [...]
One of Claude Shannon’s best remembered “toys” was his maze-solving machine, created by partitions on a rectangular grid. A mechanical mouse was started at one point in the maze with the task of finding cheese at another point. Relays under the board guided successive moves, each of which were taken in the first open counterclockwise direction from the previ...