Thursday, April 9 2015
15:30 - 16:30

Alladi Ramakrishnan Hall

How were the first error correcting codes constructed? A historical introduction to coding theory through Hamming's work

R. Padma

V I T, Vellore

Hamming's original construction has been recast into symbolic
form. This leads to an elementary historical route to the theory of error
correcting codes. The talk is going to be historical and pedagogical in
nature. (Reference: arxiv.org/abs/1401.5919 )



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