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 2018 begins mid April | 20-04-2017 |
| Energy: It's Electric with the Right Mix (both courses) | 27-04-2018 |
| Translation texts for both courses | 04-05-2018 |
| Translation texts for both courses | 11-05-2018 |
| Claude E. Shannon: Founder of Information Theory (first course) | 18-05-2018 |
| Profile: David A. Huffman (first course) | 08-06-2018 |
| Article: How New York City Gets Its Electricity (second Course) | 08-06-2018 |
| Article: Carbon-Breathing Batteries (1st Course) | 15-06-2018 |
| Article: Artificial Leaf (2nd Course) | 15-06-2018 |
| Article: Building a Better Battery (1st Course) | 22-06-2018 |
| Article: Lithium-Sulfur Batteries (2nd Course) | 22-06-2018 |
| Article: Better Batteries (1st Course) | 29-06-2018 |
| Article: Green Hydrogen (2nd Course) | 29-06-2018 |
| Article: Surge Protector (1st Course) | 06-07-2018 |
| Article: Electric Renaissance (1st Course) | 13-07-2018 |
| Translation text: Hohlleiter-Oberflächenbearbeitung und Dämpfung (second course) | 06—20-07-2018 |
Videos used in classwork
Books about Engineering and Computer Science
| Titles | Links |
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- Chad Fowler: Passionate Programmer (1), (2)
- John Clark Scott: But How Do It Know? (1), (2), (3)
- Applied Minds: How Engineers Think (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
- From Mainframes to Smartphones (1), (2)
- Big Data, Little Data, No Data (1), (2)
- 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
- The Long Arm of Moore's Law
- Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead
- What Algorithms Want
- Robots (Essential Knowledge Series)
- The Internet of Things
- Introduction to Machine Learning
- Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective
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