Just heard a very sad item of news: our colleague and friend Bill Fitzgerald, Head of Research in the Signal Processing Laboratory in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of Christ’s College, co-founder and Chairman of Featurespace, and fanatic guitar player, passed away yesterday. He wrote one of the very first books on MCMC with Joseph Ó Ruanaidh, Numerical Bayesian Methods Applied to Signal Processing, in 1996. On a more personal level, he invited me to Cambridge for my first visit there in 1998 and he thus was influential in introducing me to my friends Christophe Andrieu and Arnaud Doucet. Farewell, Bill!, and may the blessing of the rain be on you…
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