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In its early years, information theory was dominated by research on error-correcting codes: How do you encode information so as to guarantee its faithful transmission, even in the presence of the corrupting influences engineers call "noise"? Recently, one of the most intriguing developments in information theory has been a different kind of coding, called network coding, in which the question is how to encode information in order to maximize the capacity of a network as a whole. For information theorists, it was natural to ask how these two types of coding might be combined: If you want to both minimize error and maximize capacity, which kind of coding do you apply where, and when do you do the decoding?

For those who study earthquakes, one major challenge has been trying to understand all the physics of a fault -- both during an earthquake and at times of "rest" -- in order to know more about how a particular region may behave in the future. Now, researchers have developed the first computer model of an earthquake-producing fault segment that reproduces the available observations of both the fault's seismic and aseismic behavior.

Microsoft will hear in a month's time whether the European Commission fined the company excessively for failing to comply with an earlier antitrust fine.

Box has focused on its user interface with its recent updates, but now is focusing on the other side of the equation---technology management.

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Being able to break security doesn’t make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer. - Eric Raymond

It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn’t have written it! - Mark Andreesen, speaking of the HTML tag BLINK