On-Demand Streaming Video Archive of the 2008 Information Theory and Applications Workshop

San Diego, CA, March 17, 2008 -- Missed the 2008 Information Theory and Applications Workshop at Calit2? If you weren't among the nearly 500 people from around the world who crowded into Atkinson Hall and UCSD's Computer Science and Engineering Building for the week-long conference, now there is an opportunity to catch up on some of the highlights.

In collaboration with the UCSD Division of Calit2, where it is based, the Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Center is opening up the webcast archive of talks recorded and replayed with permission of the speakers. In addition to a special session in memory of information-theory pioneer and father of "group codes" David Slepian, and a game-show parody called "Who Wants to be a Researchaire?", the recorded talks included a keynote on "non-regenerative relaying in mesh networks" by Martin Vetterli (of Switzerland's EPFL) and several tutorials.

Archived webcasts of select panels and talks are now available for on-demand viewing [Windows Media Player and broadband connection required; click for information on the latest version, and on players for Mac and Linux users ]. To watch each video, click on the image or highlighted video link.

MONDAY	JANUARY 28
	David Slepian Memorial Session Jack Wolf, UC San Diego (moderator); Andrew Viterbi, Viterbi Group; Dave Forney, MIT; Thomas Cover, Stanford; Toby Berger, University of Virginia; Richard Blahut, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Length: 1:05:03 [video]
TUESDAY	JANUARY 29
	Who Wants to be a Researchaire? Ruediger Urbanke, EPFL (Moderator); Tara Javidi, UCSD (Introduction) Length: 55:41 [video]
WEDNESDAY	JANUARY 30
	Limited Feedback Performance for Block Fading Channels Manish Agarwal, Northwestern University Length: 26:44 [video]
	On the Delay-Sensitive Communication over Wireless Systems Lingjia Liu, Texas A&M University Length: 20:50 [video]
	A Spectrum-Shaping Perspective on Cognitive Radio Wenyi Zhang, University of Southern California Length: 28:23 [video]
	Wireless relay networks: deterministic modeling and capacity approximation Salman Avestimehr, UC Berkeley Length: 24:06 [video]
	Relay Beamforming in Networks with Perfect Channel Information Yindi Jing, UC Irvine Length: 23:41 [video]
	Non-regenerative Relaying in Mesh Networks Oren Somekh, Princeton Length: 23:45 [video]
	KEYNOTE Sparse Sampling: Variations on a Theme by Shannon Martin Vetterli, EPFL and UC Berkeley Length: 1:08:19 [video]
THURSDAY	JANUARY 31
	Tutorial A Short Introduction to Compressed Sensing Emmanuel Candes, Caltech Length: 1:20:08 [video]
	Tutorial Signal Processing for Integrative Bioinformatics Alfred Hero, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Length: 1:21:07 [video]
FRIDAY	FEBRUARY 1
	Tutorial Visual Recognition: Why, How, When Pietro Perona, Caltech Length: 1:20:48 [video]
	Tutorial We Are Drowning in Multimedia Data. Hurray! Malcolm Slaney, Yahoo! Research Length: 1:06:50 [video]