Robert M. Gray Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Professor of Communications and Networking in the School of Engineering Professor of Electrical Engineering Faculty Affiliate, Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research rmgray at stanford.edu

If you are renting an apartment in Paris, you might consider this warning based on our unfortunate experience and financial loss at the hands of the Paristay rental agency.

Office Hours

Classes (2009-2010)

• Winter: EE 178
  TTh 2:15-3:30, Hewlett 200
• Spring: EE102A
  MWF 2:15-3:05, Hewlett 102

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Presentations

2009 Viterbi Lecture, 26 February, USC
Codes and coin flips: modeling and compression

• 2008 Shannon Lecture, 9 July, Toronto
  Part I: Introduction
  (6M file) Part II: Source Coding and Simulation
  
• Slides from two part talk at the 6 November 2007 National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) workshop in Redmond, Washington: Introduction, Breakout session,
• Banff International Research Station Workshop on Mentoring for Engineering Academia II, 22 - 27 July 2007.
  Slides and photos
  

  Proceedings: pdf or html
  

  

• Editor-in-Chief, Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing

Miscellaneous

Proceedings of the June 2004 PAESMEM/Stanford Workshop on Mentoring in Engineering: pdf or html

"Early LPC History and the origins of VoIP" Talk slides and related links on the Pacific rim portion of the history of the development of LPC and the first successful documented packet speech experiments on the ARPA net thirty years ago.

``A Lagrangian formulation of fixed rate and entropy/memory constrained quantization,'' Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Data Compression Conference, March 2005, pp. 261--269.
This is the correct version, an incorrect version is in the proceedings and at the Xplore Website. Research partially supported by NSF Grant 0309701.

Research Group

Group Alumni/Alumnae

Free Books

• Toeplitz and Circulant Matrices: A Review, Revised February 20, 2006. 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, Revised 6 November 2009.
  
  Hardcover edition was available from Cambridge University Press, December 2004, Cambridge, UK.
  Errata for the printed edition. It is now out of print, but a paperback version (including all corrections received until now) is planned for summer 2010.
• Entropy and Information Theory, revised 16 July 2009. This is the final version of the First Edition, the Second Edition is in progress and hopefully it will be published by Springer in 2010.
• 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: 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.

• Probability, Random Processes, and Ergodic Properties: Second Edition, Springer, August 2009.
• Robert M. Gray, Toeplitz and Circulant Matrices: A Review, Now Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts. This paperback book is available at a 35% discount from Now Publishers by entering the promotional code CITMC06 on the order form .
  You will then pay only $28.00 including postage.
  
• Robert M. Gray and Lee D. Davisson, Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing, Cambridge University Press, December 2004, Cambridge, UK. Cambridge did a very nice job of producing a good looking book for only $70. Much nicer than dealing with printing and managing almost 500 pages from the free version! Solutions to the majority of the problems in the book are available for instructors from 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.

Interest Areas

• Quantization theory and algorithms
• Statistical signal processing
• Signal compression and classification
• Image processing, compression, and segmentation
• Information theory

PAESMEM

Washington, DC, 18 March 2003

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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