Robert M Gray Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Professor of Communications and Networking in the School of Engineering, Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus Stanford University Research Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Boston University rmgray at stanford.edu

Katalin Marton's Lasting Legacy by Abbas El Gamal and Robert M. Gray, IEEE BITS Magazine. Posted 12/4/2022

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• Book in progress: " Coeducation at MIT"
• Draft of essay for Volume 2 of Then, Now and Beyond, a book of essays by members of the the MIT Class of '64. Based on the material on women's and coeducational sports and sailing in the August 2019 talk at the Sandy Bay Yacht Club in Rockport, Mass. Emily Wick and Coeducation at MIT & Sailing at MIT
• Letter submitted to the IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors for its 17 June 2018 meeting.
• Slides for updated version of talk "Coeducation at MIT in the 1950s-60s," 3 May 2018, presented by the Stanford WISE Ventures.
• Slides and video for talk "Coeducation at MIT in the 1950s-60s," 25 October 2017, in the Lecture Series on Gender/Race Imperative organized by Professors Anita Hill and Muriel Medard.
• Slides for talk "Boole/Shannon and Edmund C Berkeley," presented at the Boole/Shannon Symposium at MIT, March 2016.
• Slides for talk "Academic Mentoring, Diversity, and Leadership", presented at the Denice Denton Emerging Leaders Workshop 2016 in Madison Wisconsin, 3 June 2016.
• Slides of "A Partial Hstry of Losy Compression," a technical history of lossy data compression presented at 2015 Data Compression Conference (DCC), 7 April 2015. (Swan Song)
• Slides for "Transportation distance, Shannon Information, and Source Coding," Presented at GRETSI 2013, Brest, France.
  

• Linear Predictive Coding and the Internet Protocol Links to book, talk slides, and source material for early LPC History and the origins of VoIP, with an emphasis on the Pacific rim portion of the history of the development of LPC and the first successful documented packet speech experiments on the ARPAnet in December 1974.
• Banff International Research Station Workshop on Mentoring for Engineering Academia II, 22 - 27 July 2007.
  Slides and photos
  

  Proceedings: pdf or html
  

  

• Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing, Founding Editor, Emeritus
• Proceedings of the June 2004 PAESMEM/Stanford Workshop on Mentoring in Engineering: pdf or html
  

  Compression and Classification Group Alumni/Alumnae

  Free Books

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  • Toeplitz and Circulant Matrices: A Review, Published as a paperback book by Now Publishers. See below.
  • Probability, Random Processes, and Ergodic Properties Revised March 2009. This is the final version of the First Edition of the book. Second Edition: published August 2009. Errata for both first and second editions posted at http://ee.stanford.edu/~gray/arp.html
  • Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing, with Lee D. Davisson.
    Hardcover edition published by Cambridge University Press, December 2004, Cambridge, UK.
    Errata for the printed edition. Corrected paperback edition published in 2010.
  • Entropy and Information Theory, revised 3 June 2023. This is the final version of the First Edition with corrections. Second Edition published by Springer in 2011. Errata for Second Edition as of 3 June 2023.
    
  • Conditional Rate Distortion Theory, Scanned copy of Information Systems Laboratory Technical Report 6502-2, October 1972, an early work on conditional rate distortion functions and related theory. The report provided supporting details for published papers relevant to the topic, specifically
    ``A new class of lower bounds to information rates of stationary sources via conditional rate-distortion functions,'' R.M. Gray, IEEE Trans. on Info. Theory, Vol. IT-19, No. 4, pp. 480-489, July 1973.
    ``Source coding over simple networks,'' R. M. Gray and A. D. Wyner, Bell Systems Tech. J., Vol. 53, No. 9, pp. 1681-1721, Nov. 1974.
  • Amy Heard: Historical Traces, Posted 24 September 2021, regularly updated. Combined, corrected, expanded version of the following two old manuscripts with added background material for context. Still transcribing additional letters and adding notes on Amy's friends and family in the late nineteenth century. Nonfiction Gilded Age history.

    Updated 6 July 2022.

  • Amy Heard: Letters from the Gilded Age, revised September 2005.
  • Max & Max, Revised July 2005.
  • The Salem Houses of William ``Old Billy'' Gray, a note on the houses owned by the Salem merchant along with photos from the Essex Institute (now part of the Peabody Museum) of his best known house, which later became the Essex House until it was torn down to make room for the East India Mall, now the Museum Place Mall. Be warned this is a 13M file because of the high resolution images.

  Other books

  • Entropy and Information Theory: Second Edition, Springer, February 2011.

    Errata for Second Edition as of 3 June 2023.

  • Probability, Random Processes, and Ergodic Properties: Second Edition, Springer, August 2009.
  • Robert M. Gray, Toeplitz and Circulant Matrices: A Review, Now Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts.
  • Robert M. Gray and Lee D. Davisson, Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing, Cambridge University Press
  • Chee Son Won and Robert M. Gray, Stochastic Image Processing, Kluwer/Plenum (Now Springer), 2004.
  • Jia Li and Robert M. Gray, Image Segmentation and Compression Using Hidden Markov Models, Kluwer/Plenum (Now Springer), Boston, 2000.
  • R.M. Gray and J.G. Goodman, Fourier Transforms: An introduction for engineers, Kluwer Academic Publishers (now Springer), Boston 1995.
  • A. Gersho and R. M. Gray, Vector Quantization and Signal Compression, Kluwer Academic Press/Springer, 1992. Translated into Japanese by Sadaoki Furui and Saburo Tazaki (1998).

  Interest Areas

  • Formerly Quantization theory and algorithms, Information theory, Statistical signal processing, Signal compression and classification.
  • Now mostly sailing, hiking, taiji, historical research and writing.

  Historical articles

  The Salem Houses of William "Old Billy" Gray History and photographs of the historic Sun Tavern and Essex Inn before its destruction to make room for the East India (now Museum Place) Mall.

  Poisoning by Wholesale: A Reminiscence of China Life
  A manuscript by Albert Farley Heard written during the 1880s regarding the panic in China in 1857.

  The Poisoning in HongKong --- An Episode of Life in China, Forty Years Ago
  Another memoir of the Hong Kong poisoning incident, this time by Augustine Heard, Albert Farley Heard's brother. Written about 1894.

  
  
  
  For maritime art and history, check out the Marine Art Education Center.
  For nifty old books, including maritime history, have a look at the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America and the Ten Pound Island Book Company.
  Nepotism department: check out Tim Gray's Prepress service center Grayphics.

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  Last modified 4 June 2023