Prestige Lecture Series Event Type This lecture series was organized by the Institute for Science of Information to highlight the latest thinking from luminaries in the field of information science.Previous Automating Inequality: How High Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor Feb 13, 2019 Remco van der Hofstad - The Structure of Complex Networks: Scale-Free and Small-World Random Graphs Apr 23, 2018 | Video Michelle Effros - On Capacity and the Value of Communication Aug 21, 2017 Michael Honig - Dynamics of Macro-economic Credit Expansions and Contractions Nov 17, 2016 Michael Luby - A Mathematical Theory of Distributed Storage Aug 1, 2016 | Video Nancy Lynch - Distributed Computing Theory for Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems Apr 8, 2013 | Video & Slides Emery Brown - A Look at the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia Nov 5, 2012 Tomasz Imielinski - Data Mining - Association Rules: Twenty Years and Beyond Oct 22, 2012 | Video Leroy Hood - Systems Biology Approaches to Biology and Disease and the Emergence of Proactive P4 Medicine Apr 2, 2012 Aurel A. Lazar - The Geometry of Time Encoding Machines Nov 7, 2011 Luciano Floridi - The Philosophy of Information Oct 31, 2011 Alon Orlitsky - Foreseeing the Unseen: Probability Estimation over Large Alphabets Apr 19, 2010 | Video Brigitte Vallee - Information Theory: Models, Algorithms, Analysis Apr 12, 2010 | Video Natasha Devroye - Fundamental Limits of Cognitive Networks Feb 22, 2010 | Video PR Kumar - Temporal Guarantees over Wireless Networks Feb 2, 2009 | Video Thomas Cover - The Natural Mathematics Arising in Information Theory and Investment Oct 20, 2008 | Video & Slides Marcelo Weinberger - Information Theory in an Industrial Lab Nov 19, 2007 | Video Madhu Sudan - Towards Universal Semantic Communication Apr 16, 2007 | Video & Slides Andrew Barron - The Interplay of Information Theory, Probability and Statistics Feb 26, 2007 | Video & Slides Nicholas Yannelis - Contracts Under Asymmetric Information Feb 12, 2007 | Video & Slides Sergio VerdĂș - Information Theory Today Oct 2, 2006 | Video & Slides Ben Schumacher - What is Information? Insights from Quantum Physics Sep 18, 2006 | Video