A course of James G. O'Hara at the Special Language Center (Fachsprachenzentrum) of the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany

My scholarly affiliation in Hannover

The address is: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek, Waterloostraβe 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
WiSe 2013-2014 begins mid October	25-10-2013
Liquid Fuel for Electric Cars	01-11-2013
Lithium Ion Batteries to Get a Quicker Charge	08-11-2013
New Energy-Dense Battery for Electric Cars	15-11-2013
Tesla Motors - Model S Electric Vehicle	22-11-2013
Translation texts for both courses	29-11-2013
Translation texts for both courses	06-12-2013
Claude E. Shannon: Founder of Information Theory (first course)	13-12-2013
Profile: David A. Huffman (first course)	10-01-2014
A Battery to Power All of the US (second course)	10-01-2014
Giant gravel batteries (first course)	17-01-2014
Electronic Tattoos (first course)	24-01-2014
Translation text: Hohlleiter-Oberflächenbearbeitung und Dämpfung (second course)	17,24,31-01-2014

Videos used in classwork

Title	Date of lesson
Electrical Engineering (EE&CS) at: (1) Iowa State University (2) Northwestern University (3) University of Arkansas (4) Georgia Institute of Technology	25-10-2013
Hilary Schniedmiller: EE Senior Jorgette Grosso: Major in EE&CS Jemima Jackson: Ampcontrol Engineer Peggy Matson: Motorola Engineer	25-10-2013
NYT series: ... Seconds With Pogue	25-10-2013
What is a vector, what is a scalar?	01-11-2013
MIT: Introduction to Recitations (1) Partial derivatives (2) Rules of Logs (3) Least squares (4) Matrix multiplication (5) Determinants (6) Components of a vector (7) Dot products and angles (8) Using cross products	08-11-2013
Semiconductors: PN junctions	08-11-2013
Rory O'Malley sings the Twitter Song	08-11-2013
Driving an Electric Wave (2010) The BMW Mini E (2010) BMW unveils new i3 electric car (2013) The Mitsubishi iMiev (2010) The Renault Zoe fully-charged (2013)	15-11-2013
Getting animated about the smart grid	15-11-2013
How Tesla Motors Builds Electric Cars Tesla Model S test drive in London All-electric 2013 Tesla Model S Elon Musk: founder of PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla (24Oct13) Model S Catches Fire (1),   (2),   (3)	22-11-2013
MIT: Del and the product rule Flux and the divergence theorem Extended Gauss' Theorem Stokes' Theorem Extended Stokes' Theorem	22-11-2013
University of Utah: Transmission Line Introduction (1),   (2),   (3),   (4),   (5)	29-11-2013
Bucknell University, PA: Transmission Line (1) videos,   (2) Representations	29-11-2013
Open University: (1) Gradient,   (2) Divergence,   (3) Curl, & Storms	06-12-2013
Microwaves &   Waveguides: (1), (2), (3)	06-12-2013
MIT: Introduction to Computer Science & Programming, Lec 1,   Rec 1,   Lec 2,   Rec 2,  ...	06-12-2013
Drawing Conclusions: Line2 App for iPhone (2010)	06-12-2013
Stanford Online - a Conversation About Energy AEI: A Conversation about Energy	13-12-2013
MIT: Introduction to EE&CS,   Rec 1,   Rec 2,   ...   Rec 5,  ...   Rec 9	13-12-2013
Fiber Optics: Basics (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)	13-12-2013
Fiber Optics: Transmitters & Receivers (1), (2), (3)	20-12-2013
Huffman coding (1), (2), (3)	10-01-2014
Fiber Optics: (1) MIT Lecture, (2) MIT Demonstration, (3) FOA Lecture 1, (4) FOA Lecture 23, (5) Interop Video	10-01-2014
Optical communications: making the link	17-01-2014
NYT Retro Reports & videos (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)	17-01-2014
Grid-scale Energy Storage: (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)	17-01-2014
Plastic and organic electronics (1), (2), (3), (4)	24-01-2014
Testing (1) Power Transformers,   (2) Electrical Substations	31-01-2014
Official Trailer: Revenge of the Electric Car	31-01-2014

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