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 — See:
The Boole/Shannon Celebration (2015/16).
In 1948 Shannon's celebrated paper 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication' was published in two parts in Bell Labs's research journal (pdf) — See 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 2016 begins mid April | 15-04-2016 |
| Hybrid technology: Solar Times Two & Sun Chaser | 22-04-2016 |
| Article on Robotic Taxis (1st Course) | 29-04-2016 |
| Article: When Cars Fly (2nd Course) | 29-04-2016 |
| Self-Driving & Driverless Cars | 06-05-2016 |
| Translation texts for both courses | 13-05-2016 |
| Translation texts for both courses | 27-05-2016 |
| Claude E. Shannon: Founder of Information Theory (first course) | 03-06-2016 |
| Eye-Controlled Machines (first course) | 10-06-2016 |
| Translation text: Hohlleiter-Oberflächenbearbeitung und Dämpfung (second course) | 10&17-06-2016 |
| Machines That Teach Themselves (first course) | 17-06-2016 |
| Profile: David A. Huffman (first course) | 01-07-2016 |
| My Boss the Robot! (2nd Course) | 01-07-2016 |
| COTSbot - a poison-carrying robot (first course) | 08-07-2016 |
| Translation text: Hohlleiter-Oberflächenbearbeitung und Dämpfung (second course) | 08-07-2016 |
Videos used in classwork
Books about Engineering and Computer Science
| Titles | Links |
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- Chad Fowler: Passionate Programmer (1), (2), (3)
- Applied Minds: How Engineers Think (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
- Girls Coming to Tech!
- «Raw Data» is an Oxymoron
- The Power Brokers
- When the Lights Went Out
- Power Density
- The Outsourcer
- A History of Silicon Valley Design
- ENIAC in Action
- Computing: A Concise History
- Turing's Vision
- Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond
- On Computing: The Fourth Great Scientific Domain
- The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering
- Robot Futures
- Reinventing the Automobile
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