We begin by congratulating Professors Yu and Meng on an outstanding article, and thanking Professor Levine for giving us the opportunity to discuss their work. Our discussion focuses mainly on the GIS and ASIS algorithms. Section 1 concerns the relationship between the GIS and sandwich algorithms. In Section 2, we consider a family of toy GIS algorithms based on the bivariate normal distributio...

BULLETIN | M A R C H Q UA R T E R 2012 I would like to begin by thanking the AiGroup for the invitation to once again speak at the annual Economic Forum. When I spoke at last year’s Forum, the title of my remarks was ‘Changing Relative Prices and the Structure of the Australian Economy’. Today, I would like to revisit this topic of structural change, first talking about some of the adjustments ...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS While working on my Ph.D. at Georgia Tech and Michigan, I have received a great deal of support from many different people. My degree would not have been possible without this support. I would like to begin by thanking my two dissertation advisors, Dr. Ozlem Ergun and Dr. Chip White. Their guidance and encouragement was constant and unwavering. They helped open the door for me ...

Published by the IEEE CS n 1536-1268/14/$31.00 © 2014 IEEE W elcome to the latest column of Notes from the Community. We start by thanking Jason Hong for his past authorship of this column and introducing Justin Manweiler as the new department coeditor. Members of our Reddit community submitted many fascinating items this quarter. This issue’s topics include the various ways we try to translate...