A course of James G. O'Hara at the Special Language Center (Fachsprachenzentrum) of the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
My Office is at the State Library of Lower Saxony
The address is: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek, Waterloostraße 8, 30169 Hannover.
The original ET page
The original version of the web page for this course with the ET logo — Check out the full list of dictionaries, reference works & links.
Claude E. Shannon: Founder of Information Theory
Shannon's M.I.T. master's thesis in electrical engineering has been called the most important of the 20th century: in it he showed how the logical algebra of 19th-century mathematician George Boole (pdf) could be implemented using electronic circuits of relays and switches — a most fundamental feature of digital computers' design.
In 1948 Shannon's celebrated paper 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication' was published in two parts in Bell Labs's research journal (pdf). From Scientific American, October 14, 2002.
David A. Huffman: Encoding the 'Neatness' of Ones and Zeroes
In computer science, Huffman coding is an encoding algorithm used for data compression that finds the optimal system of encoding strings based on the relative frequency of each character. It was developed by David A. Huffman as a graduate student at MIT in 1952, and published in 'A Method for the Construction of Minimum-Redundancy Codes' (pdf).
Profile David A. Huffman, from the September 1991 issue of 'Scientific American'.
Homework assignments
| Title | Date of lesson |
|---|---|
| SoSe 2012 begins mid April | 20-04-2012 |
| Big Computers for Little Engineers | 27-04-2012 |
| Lithium Ion Batteries get a quicker charge | 04-05-2012 |
| Air-Breathing Lithium Batteries Promise Recharge-Free Long-Range Driving | 11-05-2012 |
| New Energy-Dense Battery for Electric Cars | 18-05-2012 |
| Giant gravel batteries | 25-05-2012 |
| A Battery to Power All of the U.S. | 08-06-2012 |
Videos used in classwork
| Title | Date of lesson |
|---|---|
| Interview with Red Whittaker | 27-04-2012 |
| Electric Cars | 04-05-2012 |
| A scary light show | 31-12-2012 |
Calendar: select any month, year
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