Thursday, December 31, 2009

Thank you !

You know what they say about traditions in Aggieland: "Do something twice and it's a tradition." Mirroring last year's Thank you post, here is this year's. First, in 2009 the readership has increased and has mostly shifted from direct hits on the website to feedreaders.


The tone of the blog has probably changed a little as I mostly show new preprints without discussing them. As it stands, I try to balance the need to have a place where the latest and greatest is shared rapidly throughout the community and my need to digest all this information by trying to understand what is new and what is not. In order to digest this information, y'all are being amazingly kind to me with my dumb questions. I framed these into Q&A's and posted them on the blog, here is the list of the people who kindly obliged in this exercise:

Something new and unexpected happened this past year as well and no it wasn't a list of people interested in compressive sensing on Twitter but rather the ability of the blog to provide some new thrust of thoughts as witnessed in the Ghost Imaging experiment of Ori Katz and Yaron Bromberg leading to the Compressive Ghost Imaging paper or in the inclusion of some thoughts in the review entitled: Why do commercial CT scanners still employ traditional, filtered back-projection for image reconstruction? by Xiaochuan Pan, Emil Sidky and Michael Vannier. As it happens, Richard Gordon the inventor of ART for CT-scanners responded to that review in this entry: MIA'09 and Richard Gordon's ART CT algorithm. I am sure this is the beginning of a long discussion. Thank you Xiaochuan Pan, Emil Sidky and Michael Vannier for getting the ball rolling. I hope that entries featured in the "These technologies do not exist" series will provide similar impetus.

Others have contributed to the blog and made it better as a result, thank you to them. Here is a list (in no particular order):
Also, Thanks to the folks who mentions Nuit Blanche as an acknowledgment in their papers:


Finally, the Duke Compressive Sensing Workshop contributed to much interest in the topic of compressive sensing this year. Thank you to the organizers of the meeting: Larry Carin, Gregory Arnold, David Brady, Mauro Maggioni, Xiaobai Sun, and Rebecca Willett for making it happen and for putting all the talks on video. The stats of the Compressive Sensing Video page has witnessed a bump since the meeting.

Thank you also to Gabriel Peyré , Laurent Cohen and Frédéric Barbaresco for organizing MIA09.

A big kudos goes to Eva Dyer and Mark Davenport for having attended and regularly updated the Rice Compressive Sensing site.


Thank you, y'all.

1 comment:

JackD said...

Thank you to you Igor for the amazing work you realized once again this year, collecting (sensing) all the pieces of (compressed) information everywhere (web, arxiv, blogs, videos, rss, conferences/workshops, ... and lunches ;-). Your invaluable work opens new perspectives in researchers' minds by the connections you discover between the various subjects covered in this blog (sparsity, CS, hardware, vision, ...) and by the important questions you ask to the community.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2010!!

Laurent

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