In Spring 2000, after discussing this situation with
Prof. Forney, a number of graduate students from several research
groups gathered to brainstorm ways to remedy this deficiency. After
meeting with Profs. Chan, Gallager, and Forney to obtain feedback on
these ideas, our team reviewed the ideas and put them together into
this proposal. We hope to achieve two things with this
proposal. First, we hope to assess the level of interest among other
students from research labs/groups such as, but not limited to, LIDS,
SSG, DSPG, and LCS. Second, we hope to explore with the EECS
Department the possibility of offering such a course in Fall 2000.