This set of notes is the primary source material for the course “Estimation, filtering and detection” taught by Prof. Alfred Hero over the period 1998-2004 at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. The course pack is the property of Alfred O. Hero III and is copyright protected. Author can be reached at Dept. EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122 Tel: 734-763-0564. email hero@ee...

On December 23, 2015, Alfred Goodman Gilman died peacefully at home after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Though Al was one of the great scientific minds of the past 50 years and is best known for his discovery of guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory proteins (G proteins), anyone who trained or worked closely with Al knew him as much more than that. His greatness extended equally to scie...

Alfred Henry Sturtevant studied heredity in fruit flies in the US throughout the twentieth century. From 1910 to 1928, Sturtevant worked in Thomas Hunt Morgan?s research lab in New York City, New York. Sturtevant, Morgan, and other researchers established that chromosomes play a role in the inheritance of traits. In 1913, as an undergraduate, Sturtevant created one of the earliest genetic maps ...