Books of 2024: Final Part

Gazettabyte has been asking industry figures to pick their reads of 2024. In the final part, Professor Polina Bayvel, Hojjat Salemi, Professor Laura Lechuga, and the editor of Gazettabyte share their selections.

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Professor Polina Bayvel, Royal Society Research Professor & Head of the Optical Networks Group, Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, UCL

I recently attended a Royal Society Discussion Meeting where Leslie Valiant gave a brilliant talk on educability as a better definition than intelligence. A Harvard professor, he has developed many algorithms that underpin today's networks, including Valiant's load balancing. He is a profound thinker, and I wanted immediately to read his book, The Importance of Being Educable: A New Theory of Human Uniqueness.'

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Optical networking's future

Shown is Professor Polina Bayvel in her lab at University College London. Bayvel gave the opening plenary talk at ECOC.

Should the industry do more to support universities undertaking optical networking research? Professor Polina Bayvel thinks so and addressed the issue in her plenary talk at the ECOC conference and exhibition held in Glasgow, Scotland, earlier this month.

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ECOC 2009: Squeezing optics out of optical communications

Prof. Polina BayvelAn interview with Polina Bayvel, Professor of Optical Communications and Networks and head of the Optical Networks Group at University College London (UCL), on her ECOC conference impressions.

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