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I was so impressed by his work and the tremendous clarity with which he presented it to people
outside his area. This is a place for all of us who were lucky enough to know Sam to share our
memories and to help celebrate his life. My sincere condolences his you and all his friends and
family. Sam published a set of papers on speech and signal analysis, particularly using factorial HMM
and hierarchical models. For me the tragedy of Sam's death really brings to mind the value and
importance of the personal connections we have in our research community---the enduring
friendships, the caring, the human dimension beyond our research---and how much these friendships
mean to me and all of us, even though we are scattered across the globe. They came across as
interesting and more importantly interested, articulate, warm and genuine. Waiting for interpolation
on that too. 7) I ran it on a short movie, with the frames shuffled randomly. We will miss you terribly,
but you are not gone - you are still with us now, in the memes with which you have infected us. Most
of all, I hope that Meredith, and someday Aya and Orli, may draw strength and comfort from the
affection we all felt for him. The gregarious and well-connected Sam took me under his wing and
made a point to invite me to lunch with a group. Like so many others, I was deeply saddened to hear
of Sam’s passing. As a scientist, his own contributions were phenomenal. You will be forever missed,
and we will not forget the young family you left behind. I would also like to echo Andrew
McCallum's thoughts on the importance of the human dimension in our research community. There is
no one with whom I'd rather take on such a job. They taught me a ton about the brain and math and
how to do research. But he was so gentle about it: if they didn’t understand a question or didn’t quite
grasp what he was getting at, it was always “his fault” for not being clear enough, and he’d
eventually just lead them until they reached their own conclusions. It was very good to get together
to remember him, and to hear stories of his personal as well as intellectual qualities. Push yourself.
Keep fire in your eyes and fire in your heart and always do what you think is the right thing. I was
surprised by his conclusion, and also surprised by his confidence that he could live a life so clean, so
pure, that with no privacy would come no shame. And Sam would always make sure that everyone
present felt welcome and included. From those long talks late at night in grad school, I knew that
Sam was on his way to realizing one of his most cherished life goals, to become a father. His PhD
research culminated with the publication of a landmark 1999 article, co-authored with Zoubin
Ghahramani, that demonstrated that HMM, ICA, PCA, and Kalman Filters can all be seen as
variations on a single linear Gaussian model. I have been trying to sort out why my own grief at this
news of Sam has been so overwhelming. But I think I understand now just what lay at the heart of
his concerns. But for me, Sam was my old schoolmate from university. Some years later, as a Gatsby
postdoc myself, I often had occasion to think back on his example, and to try (and largely fail) to
emulate it. Over the years, I remember watching him experiment with different presentational
innovations. When Paul Rothemund and I came back from the first conference on DNA-based
Computers flushed with excitement, Sam joined us in the adventure and soon the three of us were
meeting every week or so with Len Adleman and his friends at USC. One wants to remember Sam as
a shooting star, blazing through the night sky with inspiring purpose and direction.
When Meredith took a job at Genentech in San Francisco, Sam took an opportunity to have a more
direct impact on the world by joining Google's research labs in San Francisco and Mountain View in
2007. Blind Date returns date metadata for each input image. He would always have new things to
tell, whether about his own work, or neat things that others had done. This unfortunately limited my
collaboration opportunities. From his sabbatical in California, I received an email from Sam that
meant so much to me. This appears to be out of character for Sam who seems in other posts here to
have “optimal strategies,” but that’s what we did. At the time, he was consulting for Google, and
very proud of it. Today I had decided to do myself some good and read his 1999 paper on EM
estimation of nonlinear dynamical systems and I came across in shock to the page with his obituary.
One of our main objectives was to stimulate interaction between people who would call themselves
statisticians and people would be more used to referring to their activity as machine learning. I
thought it was a little disgusting at the time but Sam loved it, saying how bananas have so much
potassium and it's good for your brain. Very early in the morning after his death, I awoke with a
message from Yann LeCun about the news. Over the years, I remember watching him experiment
with different presentational innovations. I wish all the best to his father, Meredith and the girls.
Sam, you'll be missed dearly and fondly remembered. He seriously wanted to be an astronaut, for
example, and was torn by the thought that being an expert in machine learning was not a ticket to
the sky. In that capacity, I would communicate with new faculty on a financial level (payroll,
research grants etc.). I contacted Sam while he was still in London preparing for his move to
Toronto. Of course if the bias is near 0 or 1 you will be rejecting a lot. Unsupervised Learning with
Zoubin Ghahramani. (The tutorial slides are now available. Some of us huddled on the tiny bed,
some spread out on the floor, some sat on the desk. Sam disclosed that he had to spend a morning,
here and there, with you at a doctor's office. In 2008 there took place a six-months research
programme at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, organised by
David Banks, Peter Bickel, Iain Johnstone and myself. The photo on this memorial site was taken at
our reunion, very familiar and shocking when I saw it. With his infectious enthusiasm, great sense of
humor, broad interests, thoughtfulness and common sense, he already played a major role on our
department even in the short time he was with us. I hope we, his colleagues, collaborators, and
friends, can find a way to understand it. Sam was clearly the man of all religions, accepting and
acknowledging any kind of spiritual ritual. I’ve seen Sam in the classroom on a few occasions, and
his talents as a teacher were off the charts. (I’ve also read hundreds of stellar teaching evaluations,
and had to scramble to find lecture halls for his grad seminar, which routinely attracted 70, 80, 90
students and auditors from across campus). The other challenge is finding referees—he worked with
everyone. Sam aspired to fatherhood before I realized it was something to aspire to, and it’s the
calling that all his talents really point to. The accuracy and reliability of Blind Date are functions of
image size, pointing, angular resolution, and depth; performance is related to the sum of proper-
motion signal-to-noise ratios for catalog stars measured in the input image. But for me, Sam was my
old schoolmate from university.
And Sam would always make sure that everyone present felt welcome and included. Do you have a
couple minutes?” With Sam, it could be big stuff or small stuff. In 1994 he joined the Computation
and Neural Systems PhD program at the California Institute of Technology, working under the
supervision of John J. Hopfield. Sam made several contributions to the then-nascent field of
molecular and DNA computing. Dear Roweis family, friends, and colleagues, The breadth and spread
of Sam Roweis' scientific legacy are just at their beginning. Indeed, he was low key when referring
to himself, nonetheless, he was also the most animated and colorful researcher I have ever met. I
cannot imagine what Sam's wife must be going through, but I hope that the memories that I and
many others share of Sam will be of some comfort. That inspiration and that example I'll carry with
me forever. This method has the potential to insert “lost” data into incomplete sets of time-domain
imaging, improving constraints from historical data on transients, variable stars, stellar motions, and
minor planet orbits. Our final interactions all centered around the much bigger steps of family and
fatherhood. With the development of controls on intangible technology transfers, a third, egalitarian
framing is arising, and I argue that initial steps have already been taken to incorporate this framing
with the discourse on dual-use technology. He was one of the persons that made my trip to a meeting
or conference worthwhile, since exchanging with him was always stimulating and heartwarming.
From Theory to Applications; NATO ASI Series F, Computer and Systems. He sensed from afar how
difficult the decision was for me, and through his incredibly kind and supportive words, lifted me
from a state of feeling really discouraged to feeling like I'd done really well. Anyone who has even
glanced at this blog will know that he was involved in almost everything I have been thinking about
scientifically. I don't know what happened there but I want to convey to Meredith that he will be
missed, not only by his family and friends but by this one person from Pakistan and by all those
people whose lives he had touched through his talks and through his demeanor. We ended up at a
dusty fantastic Diagon Alley kind of bookstore full of old maps and communist propaganda posters,
and I remember Sam getting totally engaged with the owner over some discovery he made and
buying presents for people and promising we’d come back if we could figure out how we’d gotten
there in the first place. Those were also the days before skype, and it was fortunate that I worked for
the phone company because we talked almost as often as we emailed. Sam was a brilliant scientist
and engineer whose work deeply influenced the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning,
applied mathematics, neural computation, and observational science. I send my most sincere warm
thoughts to his wife and two daughters -- there are no words to describe something like this. The
gregarious and well-connected Sam took me under his wing and made a point to invite me to lunch
with a group. And he’d occasionally have to treat a faculty member in a department meeting like a
grad student, gently cajoling and leading them in a specific direction, but ultimately letting them
draw their own conclusions. While at MIT and upon his return to Toronto, he focused on using
machine learning and statistical methods to contribute to other sciences, such as astronomy and
biology. Most of all, we express our deepest sympathy to his wife Meredith, his twin baby daughters
Aya and Orli, and his father Shoukry. -- Yann LeCun, David Hogg, Zoubin Ghahramani, Geoffrey
Hinton. He insisted that he would teach me how rather than simply doing it himself. It was a joy to
spend time with Sam, and it was a joy just to know that he was around. His lectures were delightful;
he was informal, enthusiastic, and always clear. He was an 'honorary' member of my group,
attending group meetings and classes, and was always in his lively, happy, and energetic mood. I
admired his work without ever having had a chance to meet him in person or attend any of the
conferences he likely attended or develop any form of personal acquaintance. Sam was no doubt
your flesh and blood, a young version of your creative spirit. After I moved to Microsoft Research,
Sam's works on single microphone source separation and on locally linear embedding came out,
making it seem the real fun at Gatsby was just beginning.
Whether it was machine learning research, rock climbing, snowboarding, or partying, he was always
ready to try a new trick and to give a hand to a novice like myself. Sam was in engineering science,
and I was in computer engineering, so we didn't share any classes together, but we shared friends
and residence time together. When he took his first faculty job, he decided that he really should no
longer engage in his annual “NIPS flirtation” with a PhD student. He was an incredibly bright and
kind person, and will be missed. It seemed effortless, although I'm sure quite a bit of effort went into
it. He’d often say that he couldn’t understand how people like me (and Sven, vice-chair at the time)
could devote themselves to an administrative job such as department chair. Today I had decided to
do myself some good and read his 1999 paper on EM estimation of nonlinear dynamical systems and
I came across in shock to the page with his obituary. Capitalizing on his work on blind source
separation, he co-authored a landmark 2006 SIGGRAPH paper with Rob Fergus and others on
removing camera shake from a single photograph. As I was developing new algorithms post MSR, I
remember having in the back of my mind this thought: one day, soon, I'll meet up with Sam and tell
him about them, and we'll have an awesome, totally unpredictable conversation. He wanted to make
our department a better place and wanted to help others do the same. Sam saw a bigger picture, a
bigger community, than most of us. You could tell he’d thought about it, and always had some
worries about his abilities. The youngsters looked at me with a somewhat condescending look. Install
around legs. 1 water pump, battery powered. Computer Science Workshop on Computational
Neuroscience and Generative Models Speech Processing: Impossible Problem or Low Hanging Fruit.
Soon after you and Sam settled in the Bay Area, I noticed that Sam often arrived rather late to
Google. Over the course of the Fall term, he came to quite a few of my group meetings, infusing
each of them with that same boundless energy, penetrating and critical rationality, and the sheer joy
with which he grappled with difficult problems. Even those who had never met him before were
amazed and delighted by his spirit. I hope we, his colleagues, collaborators, and friends, can find a
way to understand it. Using speech production models in speech processing. We ended up at a dusty
fantastic Diagon Alley kind of bookstore full of old maps and communist propaganda posters, and I
remember Sam getting totally engaged with the owner over some discovery he made and buying
presents for people and promising we’d come back if we could figure out how we’d gotten there in
the first place. But for me, Sam was my old schoolmate from university. He sensed from afar how
difficult the decision was for me, and through his incredibly kind and supportive words, lifted me
from a state of feeling really discouraged to feeling like I'd done really well. Instructions on how to
contribute appear next to album. Yet he sought my advice quite a bit at first, about funding, students,
teaching, grants. But there was a spark in Sam that you knew was going to make his contributions to
our research culture go far beyond those of someone with “mere scientific credentials.” He was
clearly going to make the whole much greater than the sum of its parts. As this is the aspiration of
any researcher, I guess this would have made him happy and I hope it will bring some consolation to
his family. The gregarious and well-connected Sam took me under his wing and made a point to
invite me to lunch with a group. The method has had numerous applications in data visualization for
biology, neuroscience, and the social sciences. Like for so many of the people posting here, Sam was
an inspiration to me. I remember his enthusiasm, his feedback on my homework, a lecture he gave on
expectation-maximization with a demo he was really excited about.he always had a smile on his face.
We were all young, learning what it was to be a scientist. Instructions on how to contribute appear
next to album. Every now and again I look on Google to see what my heros are up to.today I was
curious about Sam and unfortunately Google brings me sad news. Over the years, I remember
watching him experiment with different presentational innovations. Install around legs. 1 water
pump, battery powered. Despite all of the other demands on him, personal and professional, and the
ways of peripatetic scientists, he endeavored to maintain the threads of connection. The personal and
intellectual impressions you left on me, and on so many others, will ensure that even in death you'll
live on in our minds, our work, and in our hearts. Though I didn't keep in touch with him after our 4
weeks together in the halls of Conrad Grebel and the UW campus, I am not surprised that he led an
unparalleled career in academia before his unfortunate and untimely death. What made Sam special
to me was a shared passion for machine learning in audition, which was relatively rare. He was older
than his years in maturity, and had a compassionate side that was rare for people of our age group.
Only the 15K most common words are used in the vocabulary, and only. Sam was in engineering
science, and I was in computer engineering, so we didn't share any classes together, but we shared
friends and residence time together. At the time, I actually had to make a big decision about my post-
doc plans, and he selflessly offered that I call him if I needed advice about the different places that I
was considering. Sam published a set of papers on speech and signal analysis, particularly using
factorial HMM and hierarchical models. I've tried several times to sit down and write a few words
about Sam but each time my head starts spinning and I've stopped. Sam was a great example to
everyone who knew him, of someone who could be so professionally accomplished, and at the same
time simply a modest, funny, really nice person. They had just finished hiking the West Coast Trail,
and had had a wonderful time. I don't know what happened there but I want to convey to Meredith
that he will be missed, not only by his family and friends but by this one person from Pakistan and
by all those people whose lives he had touched through his talks and through his demeanor. It was
working with Roweis that made me formulate the following principle: All scientific projects are
interesting. The accuracy and reliability of Blind Date are functions of image size, pointing, angular
resolution, and depth; performance is related to the sum of proper-motion signal-to-noise ratios for
catalog stars measured in the input image. These were a lot of fun, exploring ideas with energy,
curiosity and a pleasure in finding things out. Damn it, Sam - I still can't get used to the idea that I'm
never going to run into you again, at the top of the stairs in B43. I thought it was a little disgusting at
the time but Sam loved it, saying how bananas have so much potassium and it's good for your brain.
One of their methods can even estimate the year at which an image was taken by measuring tiny
variations in stellar positions. Sam was one of the University of Toronto Engineering Science class of
9T4. And Sam would jump up, bounce over to the whiteboard, and write down a simple insight or
equation that cut through the mess, putting us on track. These strategies have had mixed success, and
I show how they have adequately resolved some cases (e.g. quantum cryptography), while other
areas have proved much more difficult (e.g. focal plane arrays and computers). I’ve seen Sam in the
classroom on a few occasions, and his talents as a teacher were off the charts. (I’ve also read
hundreds of stellar teaching evaluations, and had to scramble to find lecture halls for his grad
seminar, which routinely attracted 70, 80, 90 students and auditors from across campus). I've
appreciated reading the other postings by his many friends. And if I was too slow to catch the
explanation in real time (I usually was) then it wouldn't be long before I'd get an email from Sam,
spelling it all out in detail.
What made Sam special to me was a shared passion for machine learning in audition, which was
relatively rare. I miss him so much. I met Sam in graduate school, when we were both in John
Hopfield's group. I wish all the best to his father, Meredith and the girls. This hierarchical framing
has been in continual contention with a competitive framing that views the problem as the
marketability of technology. Josh Tenenbaum at MIT wrote on Sam’s memorial blog about Sam’s
impact on the machine learning community, that to Sam “our field was one big joint effort.” He was
there to help the entire machine learning community, and he was there to spread its impact far and
wide. Montreal Learning Compact Approximations of Large Matrices. Sam and Meredith stopped by
my parent's house in Victoria, BC, when we were visiting, in the summer of 2006. The talk was
punctuated throughout with lively discussion, all ignited by Sam's brilliance, vibrancy and
enthusiasm. Most thankfully I set aside those apprehensions and went and spent the week-end in
Jacob, Ontario with a close-knit group of Sam and Meredith’s dearest friends and I remember
thinking during the wedding event that there was just so much love in the room. This method has
the potential to insert “lost” data into incomplete sets of time-domain imaging, improving constraints
from historical data on transients, variable stars, stellar motions, and minor planet orbits. As much as
we all care about our colleagues and friends, about DCS and UofT, you sometimes have to detach
yourself from the personal and emotional details of the job. They had just finished hiking the West
Coast Trail, and had had a wonderful time. He was also perfectly willing to demand something of
people - if the demand came with caring and love. It's an extremely rare combination of being
incredibly talented, incredibly generous, incredibly zealous, and incredibly enthusiastic -- but I'm
sure there are other (incredible) ingredients to Sam that set him apart even further. The photo on this
memorial site was taken at our reunion, very familiar and shocking when I saw it. My heart goes out
to Meredith and to all of Sam's family. A while ago, Dahlia and I visited Meredith and Sam, and
Sam told us a great story about you. Through my participation in his wedding, I came to learn how
much my cousin Sam valued friendships. Sam was instrumental in organizing the best wedding
present I received. Whatever the intent, I was charmed and happy that Sam’s fun bus had arrived. I
felt disbelief and a loss akin to one I had felt a few years earlier when my closest cousin had died in
a meaningless accident. He diligently made the effort to do the small things that build an intimacy
and friendship, things most of us would forget to do as the moment passed. It was a pleasure and an
honor to watch Sam grow up, always many steps ahead of me. His first talk here, last September,
was presented in a room overflowing with multi-disciplinary colleagues from departments throughout
the university. Sam inspired many students to pursue a career in research, and to focus their research
on machine learning and artificial intelligence. The gregarious and well-connected Sam took me
under his wing and made a point to invite me to lunch with a group. And he has also made me value
my work friendships all the more -- realizing how important they are, and also what a great set of
people there are out there. The redactions were made in line with requests from the British
Government, and include primarily a description of the location of the Wassenaar Secretariat, the
Arrangement’s information system, and the reproduction in Appendix G of the Guidelines for the
Drafting of Lists. Sometimes I felt guilty that our collaboration took so much of his time away from
his true passion. Copyright 2005, 2006, 2007,., 2021, 2022, 2023 David W. Hogg. Powered by
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