The following table lists the schedule for 6.962. A limited number of listeners/auditors who have read the relevant papers are welcome to attend sessions of interest.
| Date | Area | Topic | Leader | Papers | Writeup |
| 2/8 | Adaptive Signal Processing | Blind Deconvolution and Blind Source Separation | Shane Haas | p1 (ps,pdf); p2 | Summary (ps,pdf) Slides (ps,pdf) |
| 2/15 | Info. Theory & Applications | Source Coding with Side Information | Stark Draper | C&T sec. 14.4 (opt), 14.8, 14.9 | Summary (ps,pdf) Slides (ps,pdf) |
| 2/22 | Information Theory | Commmunication with Side Information | Aaron Cohen | Costa (ps) and Shannon (hardcopy only) | Summary (ps,pdf) Slides (ps,pdf) |
| 3/1 | Estimation and Hypothesis Testing | Statistical Learning Theory | Emin Martinian | Vapnik '99 | Summary Slides |
| 3/8 | Information Theory | The Poisson Channel | Won Yoon | Wyner (pdf) and Lapidoth/Shamai (pdf) | Summary (ps,pdf) Slides (ps,pdf) |
| 3/15 | Graphical Models | Approximate Inference Techniques | Erik Sudderth | Jordan (pdf) and Yedidia (pdf) | Summary (ps, pdf) Slides (ps, pdf) |
| 3/22 | Estimation | Learning Theory with real-valued Risk Functions | Michael Rosenblum | Alon et. al (pdf) and Vapnik '99 (refresh your memory) (pdf) | Summary (ps), Slides (ps) |
| 4/5 | Information Theory | Anytime Information: Tracking Unstable Sources | Constantine Caramanis | Sahai Chapter 1(ps), and Sahai Chapter 2(ps) | Summary (ps), Summary to the Summary (ps), Slides (ps) |
| 4/12 | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled |
| 4/19 | Speech Processing | Isolated-Word Speech Recognition using Hidden Markov Models | Irina Medvedev | Rabiner(PS file) Sections: I, II, III, VI, IX |
Summary (PS File) Slides (Power Point Format) |
| 4/26 | Information Theory | Capacity of Single-Server Queues | Tengo | Anantharam and Verdu (1996) (PDF) | Summary (PDF) (PS) Slides (PS) |
| 5/3 | Information Theory | Coding Theory | Shan-Yuan Ho | Paterson and Tarokh (2000) (ps) | Summary (ps) Slides (ps) |
| Also on 5/3 | Quantum Information Theory | Quantum Information Theory | Yonina Eldar | Schumacher ( pdf) and Preskill (optional background) ( ps ) | Summary (ps) Slides (ps) |
| 5/17 | Network Traffic | Pricing & Congestion Control | Navid Sabbaghi | Courcoubetis & Kelly & Weber ( ps ), Kelly & Maullo & Tan ( ps ), Low & Varaiya ( ps ), La & Anantharam ( ps ) | summary, slides |