Announcement of a Mathematics Seminar
at Clatsop Community College
Algebra Coding Workshop
October 21st 2006
Error correcting codes are an essential component of digital communication. Cell phones, compact discs, satellite television and deep-space communication are all dependent on codes that can automatically correct errors that occur in transmission. These codes were first developed by Claude Shannon and Richard Hamming at Bell Laboratories in the late 1940's and 1950's. Using check matrices and binary modular arithmetic, these codes efficiently detect and correct errors, improving the accuracy of transmission. The workshop will consist of a lecture covering the basic mathematics of matrices and binary modular arithmetic followed by an opportunity to use Maple software to work with some specific Hamming codes.
The workshop was held on October 21st 2006.
Click here to see the power point slides from the presentation.
Please contact Rich Beveridge at 338-2332 or by e-mail at rbeveridge@clatsopcc.edu if you have questions.
Here are some links to background information I've drawn from to develop material for the workshop.
Jim Carlson - University of Utah