June 24, 2014
Sanjoy Mitter receives the 2015 IEEE Eric E. Sumner award with the citation:
For contributions to the unification of communications and control.
June 11, 2014
On the island of Java, in Indonesia, the silvery gibbon, an endangered primate, lives in the rainforests.
May 30, 2014
One of the reasons we don’t yet have self-driving cars and mini-helicopters delivering online purchases is that autonomous vehicles tend not to perform well under pressure. A system that can flawlessly parallel park at 5 mph may have trouble avoiding obstacles at 35 mph.
March 25, 2014
Vincent Blondel, a frequent visitor to LIDS has been named Rector of Universite Catholique de Louvain - this is the highest position in one of the very important universities in Europe.
December 30, 2013
Alan Willsky receives the 2013 Society Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS).
November 14, 2013
Much artificial-intelligence research is concerned with finding statistical correlations between variables: What combinations of visible features indicate the presence of a particular object in a digital image? What speech sounds correspond with instances of what words?
