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 … Leibniz (1), (2), (3), (4) …

 

Faculty of EE & CS / ET & INF

The original version of the web page for this course with the ET logo — Check out the full list of dictionaries & reference works: oharas.com/et

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 2014/15 begins mid Oktober	24-10-2014
Article: The Big Fix	31-10- und 7- &14-11-2014
Translation texts for both courses	21-11-2014
Translation texts for both courses	28-11-2014
Claude E. Shannon: Founder of Information Theory (first course)	05-12-2014
Energy: Solar on Demand & Big Data, Big Energy	12-12-2014
Profile: David A. Huffman (first course)	09-01-2015
A Battery to Power All of the US (second course)	09-01-2015
Giant gravel batteries (first course)	16-01-2015
The World's Largest Solar Array (first course)	23-01-2015
Translation text: Hohlleiter-Oberflächenbearbeitung und Dämpfung (second course)	16,23&30-01-2015

Videos used in classwork

Title	Date of lesson
Electrical Engineering (EE&CS) at: (1) Iowa State University (2) University of Cincinnati (3) Northwestern University (4) University of Arkansas (5) Georgia Institute of Technology (6) University of Manchester (GB)	24-10-2014
Hilary Schniedmiller: EE Senior Jorgette Grosso: Major in EE&CS Jemima Jackson: Ampcontrol Engineer Peggy Matson: Motorola Engineer	24-10-2014
What is a vector, what is a scalar?	31-10-2014
Why is trigonometry useful?	31-10-2014
Semiconductor basics (1), (2)	07-11-2014
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	07-11-2014
Semiconductors: PN junctions	14-11-2014
Submarine Cable Installation (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)	14-11-2014
Getting animated about the smart grid	14-11-2014
MIT: Del and the product rule Flux and the divergence theorem Extended Gauss' Theorem Stokes' Theorem Extended Stokes' Theorem	21-11-2014
University of Utah: Transmission Line Introduction (1),   (2),   (3),   (4),   (5)	21-11-2014
Bucknell University, PA: Transmission Line (1) videos,   (2) Representations	28-11-2014
Open University: (1) Gradient,   (2) Divergence,   (3) Curl, & Storms	05-12-2014
Microwaves &   Waveguides: (1), (2), (3)	05-12-2014
MIT: Introduction to Computer Science & Programming, Lec 1,   Rec 1,   Lec 2,   Rec 2,  ...	05-12-2014
Stanford Online - a Conversation About Energy AEI: A Conversation about Energy	12-12-2014
MIT: Introduction to EE&CS,   Rec 1,   Rec 2,   ...   Rec 5,  ...   Rec 9	12-12-2014
Solar Power in Africa (1), (2), (3), (4)	12-12-2014
Into the Cloud: Data Centers	12-12-2014
Fiber Optics: Basics (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)	19-12-2014
Fiber Optics: Transmitters & Receivers (1), (2), (3)	19-12-2014
Huffman coding (1), (2), (3)	09-01-2015
Fiber Optics: (1) MIT Lecture, (2) MIT Demonstration, (3) FOA Lecture 1, (4) FOA Lecture 23, (5) Interop Video	09-01-2015
Grid-scale Energy Storage: (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)	16-01-2015
Optical communications: Lasers (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)	23-01-2015
Transformers (1), (2), (3)	30-01-2015
Harper Reed: Insights on Data and Technology	30-01-2015
The Secret of Nikola Tesla (1), (2)	30-01-2015

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