Title: “Reading the Classics”
Seminar Offering: Spring 2008
Organizer: Dr. Farinaz Koushanfar,
Office Hours: By email appointments
Meeting time: 4:00 PM -5:20PM Monday
Meeting place: Room 1049 DH
Prerequisites: Interest and passion in your field of study/research, and curiosity to learn
Announcements:
(Feb 18,
2008): The class will START AT 4:30pm, not to conflict with the AMD talk.
Since our
field has its roots in logic and math, the first class will cover the related
history from the ancient times to present. The rest of the semester will cover
the sample papers (below).
Goals
and requirements:
· Goals
o Reading the seminal papers in electrical engineering, those who have introduced a new concept and resulted in a paradigm shift in our field
o To increase knowledge and awareness about the history of our field, we will also shortly discuss the biography of the author inventor and how they have had impact
o To motivate and inspire the participants to take research leadership positions
o To have fun learning basic papers that always wished for, but never had time
o If you have seen some of the papers before, that is even better. You can present it to others who see it for the first time!
· Requirement
o Each participating group co-presents a classic paper with the instructor along with a short biography of the author/inventor to be discussed in the class
· Sample classic papers suggested by me and other faculties in the department, but we are open to your ideas. Not all sample papers will be necessarily covered in the class:
o Ronald Fisher Maximum Likelihood Framework, 1924
o As We May Think. Vannevar Bush, 1945
o First Draft of the Report on EDVAC. John von Neumann 1946
o A Mathematical Theory of Communication. Claude E. Shannon 1948
o The Turing Test paper, Alan Turing 1950
o Non-Cooperative Games. John Nash, 1951
o Gordon Moore’s Paper (Moore’s Law), 1965
o Cooley-Tukey FFT Algorithm, 1965 and paper by Heideman, Johnson and Burrus on Gauss and History of FFT
o Parks-McClellan FIR Filter Design, 1972
o Kleinrock and Tobagi Packet Switching in Radio Channels: Part I and II, 1975
o De-Noising By Soft-Thresholding, David Donoho, 1994
Seminar Schedule:
• Week 1: Orientation and overview. Brief history of logic and math (Farinaz Koushanfar)(Slides .pdf)
• Week 2: Ronald Fisher, "On the mathematical foundations of theoretical statistics" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, A, 222: 309-368, 1922. Also, you may want to take a look at John Aldrich’s summary paper on the history of Maximum Likelihood: "R.A. Fisher and the making of maximum likelihood 1912-1922". Statistical Science 12 (3): 162-176, 1997.
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