Welcome
to the MODD Zone
(Mathematics
Of Digital Data, Period D)
Web address shortcut for this page: www.modd.net/1112modd
Are
you nervous when you see NCWEE? concerned when you see CIRC? perturbed when you
see PBC? Visit Mr. Hansen’s fabled abbreviations
page to make sense of those cryptic markings you see on your papers.
Schedule
at a Glance (see archives for older entries) |
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T 1/3/012 |
Classes resume. |
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W 1/4/012 |
Guy’s
presentation. |
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Th
1/5/012 |
Richard’s
presentation. |
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F 1/6/012 |
Peter’s
presentation. |
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M 1/9/012 |
Exam, 2:00
p.m., MH-102. ·
Claude Shannon,
Bell Labs, father of information theory, author of Shannon’s Theorem (channel
capacity as a function of bandwidth, power, and S/N ratio), also associated
with the Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem. ·
Harry Nyquist, also of Bell Labs, famous for the Sampling Theorem
(to avoid aliasing artifacts, we must sample slightly more than twice as
rapidly as the highest frequency found in the data source). ·
(Richard)
Hamming, also of Bell Labs, mathematician who developed the Hamming codes for
error correction. ·
Alan Turing,
father of computer science, worked on cracking the Nazi Enigma cipher during
World War II, was later hounded by the British government and was driven to
commit suicide. ·
Hedy Lamarr,
actress who dreamed up the idea of spread-spectrum frequency-hopping communication,
which is today used everywhere in wireless digital communication. ·
Gordon Moore,
co-founder of Intel, famous for Moore’s Law (density of transistors, and
hence the computing or storage capability at a given price point, essentially
doubles every 18-24 months). ·
RSA, the
initials of mathematicians Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman, who published their most famous paper in 1978.
You don’t need to remember the names, just the initials. The RSA algorithm
for public-key encryption was granted a patent and made its developers famous
and successful. |
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Links Based on Class Discussions:
-- Latest revision of our MODD course
outline from 2005, before we had a good textbook to use
-- Homemade “Segway”-like balancing scooter uses a fair amount of calculus!
Serious Links:
-- STA
School Handbook
-- Summer math camps
for talented high school students
-- Click here for other serious links
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Last updated: 07 Jan 2012