Robert M. Gray Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Professor of Communications and Networking in the School of Engineering, Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus rmgray at stanford.edu

I am no longer hosting visitors at Stanford or taking on new students as I am now emeritus and will be at Stanford only rarely after June 2013.

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• Technical history of lossy data compression presented at 2015 Data Compression Conference (DCC), 7 April 2015. (swan song)
  

• Linear Predictive Coding and the Internet Protocol, Parts I and II: http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/2000000029 and http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/2000000036.

  See also "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.

• Banff International Research Station Workshop on Mentoring for Engineering Academia II, 22 - 27 July 2007.
  Slides and photos
  

  Proceedings: pdf or html
  

  

• Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing, Founding Editor, Emeritus
• Proceedings of the June 2004 PAESMEM/Stanford Workshop on Mentoring in Engineering: pdf or html
  

  Compression and Classification Group Alumni/Alumnae

  Free Books

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  • Toeplitz and Circulant Matrices: A Review, 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.
    Hardcover edition published by Cambridge University Press, December 2004, Cambridge, UK.
    Errata for the printed edition. Corrected paperback edition published in 2010.
  • Entropy and Information Theory, revised 3 March 2013. This is the final version of the First Edition with corrections. Second Edition published by Springer in 2011.
    
  • 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.

  Other books

  • Entropy and Information Theory: Second Edition, Springer, February 2011.
  • Probability, Random Processes, and Ergodic Properties: Second Edition, Springer, August 2009.
  • Robert M. Gray, Toeplitz and Circulant Matrices: A Review, Now Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts.
  • Robert M. Gray and Lee D. Davisson, Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing, 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
  • Information theory
  • Statistical signal processing
  • Signal compression and classification
  • Now mostly sailing, hiking, and tai chi

  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.
  
  252 Packard Building
  350 Serra Mall
  Stanford, CA 94305
  

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  Last modified 13 September 2015