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    John Backus — Inventor of FORTRAN

    V. Rajaraman, Priti Shankar in Resonance (2007)

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    The evolution of compilers

    The term compiler was coined in the late forties, by Grace Murray Hopper, a pioneer who rose to the challenges of programming the first computers. The problem of translation from a source language into a target l...

    Priti Shankar in Resonance (2007)

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    Decoding Reed-Solomon codes using Euclid’s algorithm

    Reed-Solomon codes are indeed an elegant illustration of a very practical application of abstract algebra. An interesting discovery was the fact that Euclid’s algorithm for finding greatest common divisors of ...

    Priti Shankar in Resonance (2007)

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    David Huffman

    Priti Shankar in Resonance (2006)

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    Editorial

    Priti Shankar in Resonance (2005)

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    Editorial

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    Editorial

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    Robert W Floyd (1936–2001)

    Priti Shankar in Resonance (2005)

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    Florence Jessie Mac Williams (1917-1990)

    Priti Shankar in Resonance (2005)

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    Expander codes

    Expander graphs are graphs in which every set of vertices has an unusually large number of neighbours. It is a remarkable fact that graphs of this kind exist. Even more remarkable is the spectrum of applicatio...

    Priti Shankar in Resonance (2005)

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    Madhu Sudan receives Nevanlinna Prize

    Meena Mahajan, Priti Shankar in Resonance (2002)

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    Claude Elwood Shannon

    Priti Shankar in Resonance (2002)

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    Book review

    K. Parthasarathy, Priti Shankar in Resonance (1997)

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    Error correcting codes

    Reed Solomon codes began as mathematical curiosities; today they are perhaps the most practical and widely used codes. This article describes the ingenious application of these codes to error correction in Com...

    Priti Shankar in Resonance (1997)

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    Error correcting codes

    In the first article of this series we showed how redundancy introduced into a message transmitted over a noisy channel could improve the reliability of transmission. In this article we describe one of the ear...

    Priti Shankar in Resonance (1997)

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    Error correcting codes

    Linear algebraic codes are an elegant illustration of the power of Algebra. We introduce linear codes, and try to explain how the structure present in these codes permits easy implementation of encoding and de...

    Priti Shankar in Resonance (1996)